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by Graeme4130 » Wed Oct 30, 2013 12:27 am
Right, I've had a chat with Bruntingthorpe events team today about the possibility of renting the facility - They have no objections and basically rent out to anyone that's prepared to pay their price list for it.
How it works is that the facility has two 'testing tracks' which are basically race circuits. The 2mile straight is split in two and makes the back straight on both circuits, so if you wanted to rent the place for the day for 2mile high speed runs, you'd have to hire both circuits.
The cost for renting both circuits on the 'price list' is £7500 from 9am to 6pm
On top of this, you'd need to hire through them a fire/accident safety crew and a number of track marshals @ approx £600 (safety crew only is less, but you'd want more crew for your own safety)
You'd also want Public Liability insurance @ around £500 (guestimate) and to rent the timing gear (speed trap + a number of crew supported Vboxes) @ ariund £1000 - Having a number of crewed Vboxes means you can measure not only your top speed, but also 0-60, 0-100, corner exit speed etc etc
For the running around with numbers and for general eyes/radio, you'd need a small crew @ say another £500.
Having a large screen Display (effectively an 8ft TV) would cost around £300 for the day, plus a little transport, so say £400, but would mean if displayed at the start finish, you could all see very quickly what the Vbox recorded in big numbers
So to total up
Brunters - £7500
Insurance - £500
Measurement Eq £1000
Safety crew/track marshals £600
Event crew / runners / radio comms £500
Display / admin / faffing £500
Total cost - £10,600
If we could get 50 from 246, then this would mean a total cost each of £212, but should we be able to get a number of other Audi sites / enthusiast groups together and a few 'friends of friends' with other stuff, and we could get say 100 attending, then that makes the cost much more reasonable at £100 and bit each
These, of course, are educated estimates and we may well be able to nego a little with Bruntingthorpe (although i got the impression it'd not be by much) - although there is a half day option
it's worth noting that the dates we loosely looked at in April/May 14 are all fully booked at weekends, so this would need to be a midweek thing
If people think this could be a go-er, I'm happy to organise - Maybe we can discuss on Sunday
GH
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