Selling in the pits on trackdays?

[PlayFair]

Hi guys,

Just had an odd thought. Is there anything against selling/marketing in the pits on trackdays?
For example if you sold car bits (tyres/brake pads/tow straps etc etc)
When I done my last track day at Mallory there was nothing. And had I needed something such as pads or fluid, I would have been stuffed.

Would it be a case of contacting the track or the company running the trackday?

[stavers]

PlayFair said:

Hi guys,

Just had an odd thought. Is there anything against selling/marketing in the pits on trackdays?
For example if you sold car bits (tyres/brake pads/tow straps etc etc)
When I done my last track day at Mallory there was nothing. And had I needed something such as pads or fluid, I would have been stuffed.

Would it be a case of contacting the track or the company running the trackday?

You wouldn't be allowed to do it for a few reasons:
Primarily the pit lane is classed as an active part of the circuit. Secondly, the pit lane is usually locked to a restricted number of people.

If you're talking about doing it in the paddock then that should be possible but you would need a proper company with liability insurance etc. Probably not enough money to be made.

[PlayFair]

Yes sorry I meant paddock area.

Just thinking of an idea if i was to be doing the trackday anyways.
Could sell goods that people may need.

Not going there just to sell, just as a sideline to help people out if needed.

[majordad]

If you did it from your own pit garage and were discreet about it you might get away with it.

[Joshsl]

But not to discreet otherwise nobody would know you were selling anything,

[glasgowrob]

Problem would be stocking the right parts lot of cars run a number of options for things like pads now multiply that by the number of marques in the average trackdat


Might work on single make days though

[QBee]

The more track days you do, the more parts/tools you take with you.

I agree with some of the posters above - even when I go to a TD with say 6 other apparently identical cars to mine, odds on I will be on different brake pads to them, different wheels and tyres, etc etc, so the chances that any vendor will have what i need are limited. One would imagine that the tracks would have a spares shop if they thought it would be a viable and profitable operation. I cannot imagine the very savvy Jonathon Palmer would not have explored this, so he must decided against.

I do take oil and tools with me, and a few ignition spares, and one can often borrow things you haven't got yourself. If you know your car eats brake pads, for example, then you take spares with you. The one thing I really should get a spare of is a throttle cable. I have seen three go on other TVRs at track days in the last 12-18 months, and don't presently carry a spare.

[majordad]

TVR, take a spare car or five ! Only being smart, I'd love to own one and they are really great cars.

[mad4amanda]

Brands has a shop under the Paddock Hill grandstand which supplies common consumables and baffles etc they also get hourly factor deliveries too.

[QBee]

majordad said:

TVR, take a spare car or five ! Only being smart, I'd love to own one and they are really great cars.

The Clarkson-perpetuated myth!
So long as they are driven regularly, TVRs are as reliable as anything else.
Over Christmas my wife's Mercedes lost track of its crankshaft and wouldn't start when warm. My Audi A8 had about seven electrical faults, all at the same time, woudn't run and suffers from the well-known juddering gearbox fault. The only car reliably starting ad running in our fleet was, yes, you guessed, the TVR.
Mine has a Range Rover engine, Ford brakes, and Vauxhall switch gear. Never fails to start and run, and for a 15 year old car, is remarkably reliable.

Come for a ride in mine and you will see why we think they are the best value for money performance car you can buy. I mean it. Ping me an email and I am sure we can arrange something.

[QBee]

P.S. just read your profile.
On my last track day all 7 TVRs were fine all day.
Of the three 911, one suffered an unidentified failure and another blew its turbo in clouds of white smoke. One was fine. 33% ain't bad I guess.

[majordad]

Thanks for the offer , as I said I admire TVR's, and have done since I was a teenager.

[davepoth]

Castle Combe has a pretty good shop, it does all kinds of motorsport-y things.