EXCITING CONTENT squeeze themselves in and be able to get their jobs done in all weathers , in every challenging circumstance . The good news is that WorldSBK is stuffed full of clever and experienced people who are good at logistics , so listen in now to find out how they manage to build their mobile city and put on the show for us all 12 or more times a season . Long before the first European round the teams have to provide the organisers with information and dimensions on what kind of structures they will be bringing to each Euro race . How much electricity they will need ? What size additional shelters , clearance around their tail-lifts - anything that may need to be considered before the first trucks set off only to find it doesn ’ t fit . So the pre-planning is as profound and wide-ranging as you may imagine . A small military campaign , of sorts . If we assume any particular round would have all four main championship classes - WorldSBK , WorldSSP , WorldSSP300 and the Yamaha R3 Cup series - the planning on how and where they will all fit in starts a month before each individual event . The main thing to consider is the overall footprint , height , etc of the full team structure for all the classes , which sounds obvious enough . You would expect everybody to get their allocation based on their need , after all . But after that lot is totted up the TV Compound , Marketing and Commercial structures , Technical bays , the Pirelli tyre compound , a technical suppliers area and the Paddock Show all have to also fit into what is - if you are lucky - one great big expanse of asphalt behind the pit boxes , etc . At a track with lots of ‘ little paddocks ’, different levels , or like Autodrom Most a very narrow area behind the pit boxes , it gets a little bit more complicated . As David Bosser , Senior Manager from WorldSBK Organisation Department explained , “ In total , we have to plan how to allocate more than 100 trucks and semi-trailers with their structures . Not an easy job of work , especially when we have smaller circuits like Most , as you could see at that event - but at the same time it is a nice challenge for us to work at some smaller paddocks .” Most is a very unusual circuit - old school even if it is all new for WorldSBK in 2021 - with a long and narrow internal paddock , hemmed in by two ribbons of track surface that run wavily across the same hillside , all joined-up by two long 180 degree hairpin sections at either end . Not much room to work in , literally , and the paddock area is on multiple levels … and the bulk of the spectator areas are high on the hill … All this means that the Paddock Show structure was actually outside the track for this event , because the fans were up there . So how do you know all the WorldSBK essential kit is going to fit in , and where ? Thank heavens for computers , it seems , and the modern miracle of AutoCad software . This translates all the dimensions of each structure into an image on screen . The paddock shape and area is then used as the background to place each virtual structure on . This way of building a virtual paddock , piece by piece , is really like on-screen lego . If you try to put something somewhere it can ’ t actually fit the computer days ‘ No !’ and you have to think again , to use your space more efficiently . Useful tool that to help ensure that when you get to the real paddock you will not find something important that does not quite fit after all . Of course every track has a different number , size and access point in terms of pit garages , all of which has to be factored in to the almighty ‘ plan ’. Just one more aspect the humans have to allow for , as much as the AutoCad machine , as Bosser explains . “ All WorldSBK teams have a space guaranteed
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