This document details all the places a driver needs to take themselves or their car over a race weekend.

Photographs will be added to this page following my next visit.

Circuit Entrance

This is the main entrance. Turn into here and go straight on to access the paddock.

Chequers Restaurant

To the left is the main paddock entry. Straight on is the Chequers Restaurant.

Fuel and Waste

Entering the main paddock, turn left. This leads to the Fuel station. To the right of that is a disposal point for waste oil and chemical toilet waste.

Toilets / Scrutineering Bay / Parc Ferme

Continue past the fuel station, to the north end of the paddock. Here you will find toilets, along with showers. To the right and jutting out is the scrutineering bay. Further to the right is parc ferme, access via the pit lane entry. There are also water taps within the scrutineering bay.

Medical Centre / Podium

Just south of parc ferme, by the pit lane, is the medical centre. Just south of this is the podium.

Admin / Pit Lane Garages

Continuing south, by the pit lane, is the Admin block. To the left is the entry for signing on. To the right is the entry for race control, media, clerks, stewards and timekeepers. This block is the start of the pit lane garages.

Assembly Area

Continuing south, towards the end of the pit lane garages, is the Assembly Area. From here, cars are released into the pit lane

Waste

Heading back towards the Chequers restaurant and main entrance, one comes across another disposal point for waste oil and chemical toilet waste.

Fogarty Centre

Instead of turning left, into the paddock, go straight on, passing the Chequers Restaurant on the left. This leads to the Fogarty Centre.

Pits, Including Entry and Exit

Pit Lane Entry

The pit lane entry is shortly after Lodge Corner. From there, move to the right side of the circuit and, in time for the pedestrian bridge that crosses the circuit at the rise of the hill, raise a hand in warning. Be aware of any flags waved at the marshal post by the bridge and reduce speed cautiously.

It is initially a straight entrance, but there is a bend to the left just as one reaches the armco, just after the painted white-striped zone that initially separates pit lane from race track.

Just before the armco begins, there is an opening to the right for parc ferme so, if qualifying or racing, be especially careful with your pace.

From the pit lane, there is a cut-through into the paddock, both before race control and after the garage block. Be careful there, as cars may be joining the pit lane from the paddock.

Be aware of the speed limit which, while normally 60kph, may be slower at such events as truck meetings.

Pit Exit

Obey the lights and join safely. The pit lane exit curves sharply to the right as it cuts the apex of the first corner, Old Hall.

On joining the circuit, stay right until confident that there is nothing on the racing line. The first flag post is just a little ahead, on the right. It is immediately after the corner marker board.

Grid and Start Lights

Starting Grid – Rear

Exiting Lodge Corner, slow down as the starting grid is straight ahead. Last place on the starting grid is only a few car-lengths ahead of the end of the gravel trap.

Starting Grid – Rear

Just after the end of the painted white-striped zone, that initially separates pit lane from race track, is where the head of the grid is located. This is shortly after the start of the concrete pit wall, alongside Race Control.

Starting Lights

The starting lights can be seen on a gantry, almost at the midpoint of the garage block.

Repeater lights will be confirmed following my next visit. 

Page updated by Peter Tattersall, November 2021