Grass track ramps/features - what do you want?

[mattybucks]

We're lucky enought to have a guy that can build pretty much anything for the new track. The surface is grass and we're looking for a couple of top feature to build out of wood, any suggestions?

[Frecklychimp]

Astroturf!

[mattybucks]

Once the grass track is up and running we'll be speaking to the landowner about a second astro track. For this year grass only, with manmade wood features. Next year we'll start landscaping.

[Frecklychimp]

Sounds all good matey, will watch this space then

As for obstacles, the usual are large tabletop style jumps and little kickers.

How about a 90 degree built up tabletop corner, they are usually a favoured feature indoors?

We built ours in sections for Arena X venue so its easy to move about and store when needed.

Or this went down well yesterday but might be hard to get level outdoors or store:

[David Church]

How about a rhythm section, like 3 sets of small doubles in a row, with a short run up will help insure people cant jump more than 1 double at a time.

[s22jgs]

i like a nice banked high speed sweeper, although not really one to make from wood

[DerbyDan]

Originally Posted by Frecklychimp

Astroturf!

Nooo - IMO there's too many Astro tracks around - whilst I appreciate the advantages of the more consistant & wear resistant characteristic of the synthetic surface, I much prefer the more forgiving & progressive nature of 'real' grass... just so long as race meetings can be held a suitable intervals to let it recover.

P.S a corner table would be cool... but it might be worth covering wooden ramps with carpet or astro - so that you maintain some sort of grip if/when it rains