indoor track in gp

The track dementions are 24x60 with 6 foot lanes. From what I've seen of other indoor tracks 6 foot lains seemed to be an average width. I would love to have 8 or 10 foot lanes but that just wasn't feasible in the space provided. I would also love to do a indoor dirt track but most property owners won't let you fill there building with dirt.  It's great to get so much feed back and I am glad to see everyone so interested in the facility.  I have thought about starting a club and having the track non profit but wasn't to sure how to go about doing that and making it lagit.  I have also wanted to do an indoor crawler corse from day one and that is still on the board. We will also defiantly have to look into a wheelchair accessible dnd. O and the e-revo is new just dusty from sitting in the window but the boss has a roller in the back I can ask him about if your really interested golden child. ( o the e-revo is brushed and it's $505 for the new one)

Here is a good place to start if you want to start a non-profit organization:
http://www.filinginoregon.com/pages/business_registry/nonprofit.html

I know the club in White City is a legal non-profit and that there are certain legal aspects that must be met in Oregon, among them are a board of directors and tax filings.  You might want to read up on some of them via the above link so you get off to a good start.  I'm sure that if Sleadds is involved in any way they will want to assure they will not become liable for any issues that can arise such as taxes, property damage or personal injury occurring on the track.

This link is to the Non-Profit Oregon website and may answer some of your initial questions:
http://www.nonprofitoregon.org/helpline_resources/tools_information/faqs/starting_a_nonprofit
This website is linked to from the Oregon Secretary of State website at the top as a source of useful information.

i have at least three people that are down for indoor racing

Thanks for the info gps.  It sounds like u have to jump though a ton of hoops.  It might be easier to run it under the shop as far as insurance taxes and all that.  It's definitely a case were you can't have your cake and eat it to. I hope to get started on this soon and I think the maiden race will be free. Love the support guys, keep it coming. The more I have to show the boss the better.

Did you look into starting a club further?  Let us know what's happening with your project.

Hay guys sorry for the delay I've been really busy.  As of right now I'm talking with the owner of the shop to see what he is willing to do as far as the rent gose and getting into the building.  I'm also going to have a talk with the owner the hobby shop tomorrow to show him the forums and go over pricing and the cost of materials.  I also looked into starting a club and it seems like a whole lot of trouble.  But I'm going to leave that door open incase the owner of the hobby shop can't do it, then we can see about doing it ourselves.  I'm just wery because I was a member of rvrc club last year and that was not a very good expeience ( way to much drama).  I just want it to be simple and have a very welcoming atmosphere.  I mite set up some work parties witch would involve free food and drinks in exchange for some labor and possibly some track testing as it gose together.  Love the input and keep it coming and hopfully more updates to come.

If the track is going to be a commercial business (charge for public use) at the very least you will probably need insurance.  I suppose Sleadds must have insurance so maybe you will be able to add the track to it.  Even if you run the track privately, like it was your home and you're having friends visit to race, you will really want to protect yourself with insurance.

On the other hand if you are renting a commercial building they probably will require you to have insurance at the very least for fire.  They may want to see a business license also.  Have you asked?

Do you own a home yourself?  I'm guessing no because otherwise you would know some of this stuff already.  And if you do own a home and are the operator of this business and someone gets hurt you could potentially lose your home without insurance coverage.

I was also a member of RVRC and they are certainly full of drama like you said, I've seen it first hand, but one thing they did right was their legal status and all that comes along with it, including insurance.

I'm not trying to rain on your parade, but it sounds like you have not thought the details and consequences through on this endeavor.

Iv thought a lot about this hole thing and insurance was one of my concerns.  The idea is to run the track under the hobby shop and carry over the insuence to the track as well as the business license. This would make things a lot easier and we could get it going a hole lot faster.  I just didn't want to go through all the little details I only started this tread to see what kind of intrest the was and anwser any questions.  The input was still very helpful and gave me another rout to use if the sleadds fals through.  Iv even thought about going with roar but that is 35$ membership and every racer would have to pay that in order to race but that would cover insurance.

It might be worth making a poll to see how many members of Southern Oregon RC are also ROAR members.  You might be able to accomplish two things by requiring racers at your track to be ROAR members:

- You may be able to lower the track insurance costs.
- You may be able to charge less for your track usage since your costs of insurance may be lower.

It might be worth investigating further.

The ROAR membership insurance only covers ROAR sanctioned races so my idea to require members to be ROAR members isn't very effective since anyone getting injured or property getting damaged during practice nights would not be covered.

Sorry I didn't read the fine print earlier.

Well after reading through the banter here I will include my two cents.  If you over complicate something it will never happen.  Our Pro series races are not ROAR sanctioned nor do we carry insurance.  Instead what we do is have EVERYONE sign a release of liability waiver which cost about $.02 a copy.  With as small as the group here is this is what I would do.  Again this is my whole two cents and I hope you can all stop worrying so much and just do it.