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[Cherry2blost]

I went today to the new facilty at SILVERSTONE in Northamptonshire UK. Is a brand new purpose built place with a permanent indoor Asphalt Track, an outdoor Asphalt Nitro track, SC trucj course, Rock Crawling course, Buggy track, Slot car track, Full size F1 simulator, Ford Focus Rally simulator, Motorbike simulator, Food and just about any other 'boys' toys that you can dream of !!!!





http://www.moto-arena.co.uk/

Don't take my word for it just visit it once, it is £10 per session for own car, a driving school for novice drivers a shop a wholeday out.
(no I don't work there lol)

[revo madnesss]

funny you posted this just after reading a thread about it and not finding any pictures

that track looks amazing, but isnt that abit of a overkill on the straight?

have you got any pictures of the other courses?

thanks

[HappyLad]

Wow - that looks fantastic!

[hide]

£10 a session... not cheap. It's far less at most tracks.

[adolf hamster]

hide, on 22 August 2010 - 10:46 PM, said:

£10 a session... not cheap. It's far less at most tracks.

those tracks dont have 'silverstone' printed on the door though

[louder]

Is that £10 all day? So then you will get charged silverstone prices for food as well. I might go every now and again depending what the other courses are like.
More intrest to me is the fact that this puts hobby rc in a more mainstream situation. Load of car lovers will now experience our hobby and see how awesome it is. Could be great for some more people to get in on it.
Does the shop sell RC stuff? Or is it just food and random stuff. If its like a full blown hobby shop that has competitive prices then it might be of some interest to me.

I shall reserve full judgement until I have seen the other tracks, (sc and buggy ones mostly)

EDIT:

HANG ON. LOOK AT THE YEAR PRICES! JEEZ! THATS INSANE. I could buy the membership then just not race any cars seeing as I wouldnt have money to buy any cars afterwards. I dont really see how they can justify those prices of £300 and £600. I mean hell I find £75 a little steep.

Edited by louder, 22 August 2010 - 11:19 PM.

[domcharlton]

Nice to see there doing track day's despite the fact my club is 10 quid a year for three tracks all of which are top UK Tracks!

Plus as much use as you want. I understand this is indoor etc, but 300 a year very few people will pay!

Edited by domcharlton, 22 August 2010 - 10:57 PM.

[Garry]

Remember, its an Indoor track, so rent, light, heat, water etc has to be paid for. Outdoor tracks won't have those bills.

[grumpygramps]

Looks fantastic and I can well understand how they can justify the high prices. Just hope they don't end up making themselves too exclusive and alienating alot of the racers who aren't quite so well off from using it.

Can't wait to see the some of the other courses... Wonder if there'll be a 1/8 nitro buggy/truggy track?

Edited by grumpygramps, 23 August 2010 - 12:19 PM.

[Just Chris]

Yes that really does look good just my view but i think the price
is reasonable (for what you get).

[Guns]

looks awesome, Shame its a bit pricy, But as Garry says, there are alot of over heads etc.

Looks fantastic however!

[Guns]

love the idea of the Expo too

[JamesChatz]

Tiny pics of the offroad and crawling bit:

[Garry]

Those look like pics from the RCX show in America, that indoor dirt track certainly is.

The whole Moto Arena planning/announcement has been an utter shambles and considering the place is now open, there have been waaaaaay more unanswered questions than answered ones.

Heres their FB page: http://www.facebook....939961&view=all

[deejayy2k]

maybe snetterton should take a leaf out of silverstones book and bring back and offroad rc track, would certainly improve the area and there is plenty of room for it