Got the idea to build a garden in the front yard, naturally a track plan was forming in my head, with some form of plants in useless spaces. So it was decided a short track would be built. The area is on a hill that drops off steeply after a large drainage ditch. The top half the track has been cut into the grass, while the bottom section has required both cutting and filling. It has made for a rather interesting surface, ranging from hard packed top soil,, to a sandy loam over clay, hard packed clay and a gravel topsoil mix, some cement was spread dry over one hill coming out of the drain. The drain has been used to make a couple of jumps and a rather fun berm. Construction has hit a temporary stand still due to “testing” the design.

The original design:

Not a good pic, but this is leading into the corner at the begining of the straight, down hill into a corner that the first half is solid clay the second half is a sandy loam over clay.

Still have to finish off the drainage, some has been done on the lower section, guard rails will be added in a few key spots, and a small platform to drive from, would like to add some more jumps but the layout doesn’t really suit it plus its proving to be rather difficult to be fast on due to the many surfaces and the hill. Maybe even a plant or two will get added.

 Its a slow project and I will add more pics as it progresses.

Hydro. good idea redfisher, a sprinkler system to wet the track down.

That should work well for smoothing out your track, probably keep the track rather good doing that once or twice a year.

Thanks for all the positive comments. Done a bit more today, went through 4 battery’s and got another person  hooked, sent him off with a couple of catalogues and a heap of hobby shops and websites to look at.

I also set the posts in concrete for the driving platform, it wont be anything fancy, basically the base of a packing crate that is wide enough for two set on four posts with two runners, it will have a simple metal hand rail at the front  and is about two feet from the ground. Is located at the top of the jump coming out of the straight (just behind camera in pic 2) giving a good view even where the track drops away behind the bank . Should get that finished on the weekend. Not really worth of a pic.

Also started  on some of the guard rails, around the trees I am going with plastic pipe, be a mixture of pvc pipe posts and poly pipe rails. Both sides of the straight will have a metal barrier made from some steel posts I scavenged a few years ago from work. Decided to jazz them up a bit and whacked a few brand logos  on them, excuse how sloppy they look but $2 masking tape gives a $2 job. The hpi one is  a great example.

Didn’t get much done over the weekend, did manage to get the driving platform done to a degree, still got to add a hand rail at the front and give it a paint. Done a little bit of the drainage on the bottom side and added a bit of the guard rail on the straight.  It has been attached to wooden posts driven about a foot into the ground, more will be added as soon as I add some logos to them Also added some guard rail down one side of a tree, this will need revision as I cleared the guard rail and smacked into the tree anyway. Also did a little work on a few jumps, building them up and angling them a bit better.

Dodgy guard  rail.

Driving Platform.

Guard rails.