I think you are right the ring charge you for the damage and the recovery of your vehicle. i think this is especially difficult with young lads who get hurt or killed and the families end up with tragedy and a huge bill.
I must admit I have no regrets doing the ring and enjoyed both my visits a lot! but then i stayed overnight and got to the track early morning and it was quieter, i just stayed off when it was really busy, because its no fun.
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Been to the ring on many occasions, started in about 1989 in a RS500 and continued on with various cars and motorbikes throughout the years.
Have to say it was much better in the early days, less wannabs about back then. Also been lucky enough to be driven around by an amazing Mercedes AMG test driver..........that was fun and incredible fast!
Only had the one incident in many trips, this was whilst on my 5 day old ZX10r, when a very nice corvette killed itself and deposited all its fluid on the track.
I managed to avoid the spinning car, road through the debris, including pistons and bearings, big smile on my face as id 'made it' (or so i thought). Still at speed i entered the next right, little bit of front brake and BANG.......down she went sliding for many yards on its offside, sparks flying everywhere. I slid on my fast becoming warm backside............thankfully we all survived in one piece. Bike slightly battered but a mixture of instant metal on the crank case cover and the rest of the trip continued uneventful.
I was always led to believe that if you caused the track to close you had to pay for the loss of earnings as well as damage to the track and ambulance, breakdown vehicle costs.[/QUOTE]