Size of track (indoor)

[mattybucks]

Hi,

What size tracks are people using indoors? Obviously the bigger the better but what would you say the minimum would be.

Thanks

Matt

[Dudders]

From memory Taplow on Carpet is about 20m long and 18m wide.

Bisley is about 30m long and 10m wide.

[sosidge]

I'm assuming this is for 10th off-road?

I've raced at a fair few indoor venues over the years. I think you can lay a usable track in something as small as 16m x 8m (the old Oxclose venue for example). That gives you the four 2-metre wide lanes you need to lay any kind of corner and meet up at the end of the lap, it also gives a usable straight. It can get a bit congested though, you can easily do 8-second laps on a layout that size.

Every 2m lanes width or length you can add from that just gets better and better. Something like 24m x 12m feels like a really good track with a lot of variety, roughly what Caldicot run on.

[singin pete]

Ribble Valley at Leyland run on 30mts x 10mts if we can get over the storage problems we may put another roll of carpet down, that will give us 30mts x 12mts.
The bigger the better but remember the carpet and track have to be put down every night!!

Cheers

Peter