platgof
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I am trying to talk my sister into opening an electric track in Florida. Can any money be made at this? I am thinking electric because it is quieter that nitro and 1/16 scale to keep the track modest and costs down.
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Sure you can make money running a track, I don't know about 1/16 scale though, what I would do is check your local area and see what is popular go to Hobby Shops in your area and see what type of racing the people in your area would like to do, Is this going to be an indoor or outdoor track either way you are going towant to have parts for sale because people are going to break and that is a good place to make money . Any way just some random thoughts and ideas, good luck...
CharliesTheMan
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It's going to take a lot of money for startup, especially if it's an indoor track. Are you going to be running carpet, on-road, or off-road? Also, I would do as abadk9420 said and check out the area for LHS. You want to see how many hobby shops are in the area, how much interest there is in indoor racing, and what scale most of the people are running. If 80% of the people run 10th scale, then I would think the track would do better running tenth scale because a lot of the people already have the equipment that would be needed, and that will allow you to start off good, whereas everyone interested in racing at your track would have to buy 1/16 equipment and not use their 1/10 stuff, so I think startup would be slower. Now these scales listed are just examples, I have no idea what scales are popular where you want to build a track. This is where research of the defined market area would come in. Also, you might not want to build a track 5 minutes away from where there is a successful track already running. These are just some things to check out.
CharliesTheMan
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fell free to PM if you need any more information. I'm building a track at my house now, and we are considering opening a track to the public that closer in the middle of town, but still on enough property that we can run nitro.
