It was me that posted the U.S. / Canada Customs issues. You can find the original post here:
http://www.canadianracingonline.com/smf/index.php?topic=10501.0
The South Buxton Raceway Tariff document is an excellent one! Speedways owner and promotors, listen up and help yourself to doing this leg work and help yourself to making it easier for race teams to cross the border to come to your speedway!
IMO this is one of the best entry level racing programs going around the london area.
http://www.wonderlandspeedway.com/
check out the classifieds. some pretty reasonable prices there. Its a great little place if you havent been you should check it out.
Can they make those tires any smaller?????????? 🙂
This thread has taken a different tack then I thought it would but I'm not complaining. Lots of great stuff here. I still think if an outfit like Cameron Motorsports or if Cameron ever wanted to expand, London would be a great market. The business case seems sound. Need something for us over 40 guys to hop into LOL. Maybe driving to Hamilton once a week or every other week is the answer. The problem with all other cart tracks that are in this area or have been is the carts are terrible and there are no multi lap runs allowed. The only exception was the indoor cart track on first street but their setup wasn't right and they didn't get the promotion going properly. I only heard about them a couple weeks before they closed ??? I hear what Wesley MS is saying as to professional cart racing. That is not what I am talking about. The Cameron arrive and drive deal with a bunch of guys "racing" just seems like the ticket for a low cost racing fix.
Feel free to keep the entry level discussion going.
Ernie,
I get what your after, which is a rental format of entry level racing. It can be done here in Canada but it's not cheap and the challenge is getting a regular crowd to rent or lease the cars. Insurance is another item that can add up in a hurry. But the biggest challenge that has hit the concept is liability insurance. You rent a car on a regular basis, should be tuned and kept safe and what happens if it breaks or a replacement part was improperly installed and somebody gets hurt.
In some of the U.S. leagues, the contracts are HUGE to rent Go-Karts for a single season, let alone a single day contract, which often can be 35 pages long in some states. Here we don't have frivolous lawsuits, but even the worry of getting sued is problem A and then there's the race track and its' insurance and safety elements and who is vulnerable. It could be argued that the track already has insurance, but that's not totally true, some are based on the exact amount of race dates, estimated car counts, etc.. Policies are available for a blanket year coverage, but the costs are sky-high as if they aren't already enough pressure to make a buck.
Karting is still cheapest form of racing for entry level - non-exotic's used Karts are cheap enough to buy for $500 - $1,000.00
One reason Karting is cheaper and run their own smaller courses is insurance for a club event is far less risk in liability, because the club is owned and operated by the racers themselves with their own karts.