Originally Posted by
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Thanks for all of the replies! I have looked at YouTube and while I can see several videos of people building tracks, I haven't found anything on dimensions or spacing of jumps.
I currently race on-road but the track is about an hour away, and I can only get there once a week at best. I wanted to build a track to get my rc fix and just get more practice driving. I just finished building a B6.1D to start racing dirt and running in the yard. There are a couple of outdoor tracks just over an hour drive away(sense a pattern here?), but neither track races every week, so my track will be the one that I get to run on the most, by far.
I have already planned for drainage. The area is on a slight slope with natural drainage, so I will just make sure that I don't do anything to trap water. The soil there has a fair amount of clay in it - not much grows there now. I'm hoping that it will make for a good track soil. If I do get dirt delivered, I will try to get some with high clay content.
I have a ton of old bricks and retaining wall stones plus some old plywood that I can use to build some temp jumps, so I will start putting some stuff on there to see what works.
Thanks guys! Keep the ideas coming!
If you have the land, and most offroad tracks are too far away, you could always start a club like Controlled Chaos Raceway in Palmdale. Eddie built the track on the adjoining lot next to his house and it has a solid club.