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Not me, I think it's a shithole.

Never been there.

I think there's outline planning for a big housing estate, I doubt who ever buys it will keep it as a race track.

Which is a shame regardless of how rubbish I think it is.

Yorick wrote: Fri Jun 12, 2026 8:06 pm Never been there.

You haven't lived !
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Seriously, that suprises me, I genuinely think that you'd love it, it's fast, and just so Northern IMO- there's a softy southerner never has-been's view on it here
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(You are on holiday so why not treat yourself and knock me off ignore for a day so you can read it - you never know , you might even enjoy some of my woffle )

It's a proper Mickey Mouse layout and is basically an extended triangle. It's probably best described as a pound shop Mallory Park minus Gerrards. And the Devil's Elbow. But I'd be sad to see it turned into overpriced little boxes made of ticky-tacky. It should stay as a race circuit, albeit a third division one.

First thing I'd do as owner is put power to the toilet block, so you can have a piss after dark without a head torch.

It's a lot of a very down market Daytona, be quite good if you added a Supermoto / Rallycross infield

I went there to watch club racing a couple of years ago, I got lucky with the weather and had a very nice afternoon up by the hairpin. I can imagine it's not a nice place in the wet.

mangocrazy wrote: Fri Jun 12, 2026 9:15 pm It's a proper Mickey Mouse layout and is basically an extended triangle. It's probably best described as a pound shop Mallory Park minus Gerrards. And the Devil's Elbow. But I'd be sad to see it turned into overpriced little boxes made of ticky-tacky. It should stay as a race circuit, albeit a third division one.

Track follows the original runways

Nah, its oop norf. Too cold for this shandy drinker!

ZRX61 wrote: Sat Jun 13, 2026 2:55 am

mangocrazy wrote: Fri Jun 12, 2026 9:15 pm It's a proper Mickey Mouse layout and is basically an extended triangle. It's probably best described as a pound shop Mallory Park minus Gerrards. And the Devil's Elbow. But I'd be sad to see it turned into overpriced little boxes made of ticky-tacky. It should stay as a race circuit, albeit a third division one.

Track follows the original runways

A mate of my Dads was a regular there, iirc the understanding was that it was an old Army base, but that doesn't preclude runways!

Rockburner wrote: Sat Jun 13, 2026 5:07 pm

ZRX61 wrote: Sat Jun 13, 2026 2:55 am

mangocrazy wrote: Fri Jun 12, 2026 9:15 pm It's a proper Mickey Mouse layout and is basically an extended triangle. It's probably best described as a pound shop Mallory Park minus Gerrards. And the Devil's Elbow. But I'd be sad to see it turned into overpriced little boxes made of ticky-tacky. It should stay as a race circuit, albeit a third division one.

Track follows the original runways

A mate of my Dads was a regular there, iirc the understanding was that it was an old Army base, but that doesn't preclude runways!

RAF, Training Command back in the day

https://www.abct.org.uk/airfields/darley-moor/

Also known as: RAF Darley Moor / RAF Station, Darley Moor
County: Derbyshire
Current Status: Aviation / Housing / Leisure activity (main position)
Date: 12 June 1943 - 23 August 1954; subsequent limited flying to present

I spectated at Darley a fair amount in the '70s and early '80s because it was cheap and local (I lived in Stafford at the time). There were a few local specialists who used to clean up most of the time, and my most enduring memory was of watching a race at the hairpin during a biblical cloudburst. The rain was bouncing 3 or 4 feet off the track, but the racers were still going at it hammer and tongs. I'd got full waterproof gear on, including helmet, so it was fairly surreal watching a race in those conditions while still staying dry.

It's the last circuit I raced at and the only one I've ever drawn pole. I took off like scalded cat but i had done a few things to make my H1 more stable so it was much slower to turn. I misjudged the chicane after the start and went straight over it snapping a frame down tube. I finished near the back, I thought it felt a bit wobbly!

I drove past Darley Moor today, it still looks a desolate dump, but I also wonder if it became a housing estate who would want to live there