The warning in full
Motor sport is dangerous. Despite the organisers taking all reasonable precautions, accidents can and do happen. You attend entirely at your own risk.
You are present at all times in areas where you may be exposed to risk of injury or death. Marshals and officials are there to keep you safe: their instructions are not advice, and must be followed immediately and without argument.
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The club must confirm the exact wording it is required to display under its SACU permit and its insurance, and whether it must also appear on tickets, signage and entry forms. The paragraphs above are a general statement of the standard warning, not the club’s legal text.
If you are watching
Spectators are welcome at every meeting, and most of the circuit is easy to watch from. A few things are not negotiable.
Stay in the spectator areas
Watch only from the marked public areas, behind the barriers and fencing. Never cross a barrier, a rope or a track boundary, and never stand in a prohibited area even if it looks safe and empty.
Do what the marshals say
Marshals are responsible for your safety. If one asks you to move, move straight away and ask afterwards.
Children
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Club policy on children in the paddock and at trackside, covering supervision, minimum ages and any restricted areas, needs confirming.
Dogs
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Whether dogs are permitted, and where, needs confirming with the club.
The paddock is a working area
Bikes are moved, warmed up and worked on constantly. Keep clear of running machines, watch for hot exhausts and spilled fluid, and keep to walking pace on anything with wheels.
Weather
East Fortune is an exposed airfield with very little shelter. Dress for wind and rain whatever the forecast says, and bring ear protection. Race bikes are very loud.
If you are riding
Racing at East Fortune is run under SACU rules. The SACU handbook is the authority on everything below; where this page and the handbook differ, the handbook wins.
Licence and membership
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Which SACU licence grades are accepted, what club membership is required, and what a rider new to the circuit has to do first. To be taken from the current handbook.
Scrutineering
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What is checked, when scrutineering opens and closes, and the common reasons machines fail. Needs the club’s own list.
Protective clothing
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Leathers, helmet standards, boots, gloves, back protection and airbag rules. These are safety-critical and specific, so take them verbatim from the handbook rather than paraphrasing.
Medical information
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Medical declaration, dogtag or wristband requirements including shape and size, and what happens after a crash before a rider may go back out.
Flag signals
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The full flag set and what each one requires a rider to do. Do not publish an approximation. Riders act on these at speed.
Minimum ages
Junior Twin Restricted is open from twelve years old, and Junior Twin Unrestricted from thirteen, in line with the SACU Junior Twins regulations. Age is taken on the first day of the meeting.
In an emergency
If you see an incident, tell the nearest marshal immediately. Do not go onto the track or into a runoff area for any reason.
- Nearest marshal post
- Posts are staffed around the full circuit
- Medical centre
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Location to be confirmed
- Clerk of the Course
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Contact to be confirmed
- Life-threatening emergency
- 999, then tell a marshal
Reporting a concern
If you see something unsafe, either at a meeting or in how the club runs one, tell an official on the day, or contact the club afterwards. Concerns raised after an event are taken as seriously as those raised at the time.
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Needs the club’s reporting route: who to contact, whether reports can be made anonymously, and how incidents are recorded for SACU.