A Week In The Life
Of A Promoter
Welcome to the latest addition of Inside
Stock Car World magazine at Spedeworth
Scotland.
This month, we’re going to take you
through a week in the life of promoting a
stock car track, and attempt to give you an
insight into the work that is involved, in
addition to just running a stock car meeting.
At Spedeworth Scotland, we operate from
a Sunday, the day of our race meetings.
First things first on a Sunday, we do all the
checks around the raceway, checking the
Armco catch fencing (ensuring everyting is
safe etc), working to the outside of the
track, bins available, pit area accessible
and in order to go stockcar racing. What
we’d do next is open up the sign in office,
where all drivers have to sign in prior to
being scrutineered, and in turn, allowed on
track. All cars must be scrutineered or they
will not be permitted to race. We then get
ourselves into the office and set up the
computer for practice, making sure that
transponders are registering correctly, and
all transponders are named correctly for
each driver.
So, come the race meeting we’re looking
out for any incidents on track, dockings that
may be required and any drivers deemed
to breaking the rules and may require a
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disqualification. At the same time, we’re
watching for cars spinning off the track and
missing a lap, as the lap scorers score the
driver, in case of any problems with
transponders not being picked up.
Immediately after the meeting, we give
drivers a window for complaints to be
lodged for review in the week. If its been
picked up by the race steward where we
may decide to watch the cameras there
and then. After the race meeting, we need
to complete the meeting report that will
consist of race results, and any incidents
from the meeting, and send it away to the
relevant body.
So, thats the race meeting out of the way,
it’s now time to plan for the next meeting,
and review this meeting. Throughout the
week, we would review the footage from
the DVD for any incidents that we may
have missed, or to review a complaint from
a driver to see if there is any case. Once
that has been done, we need to then
decide a relevant punishment for the said
driver(s). Once agreed, we need to send
that information away to the ORCi, so all
promoters are aware of the ban that has
been put in place on that particular drive