Rockingham has been posting little green hints on various pages on their website lately. Some are useful, practical things like making sure your tyres are inflated to the right pressure, cut down on the crap that's weighing down your car etc. But asking punters to use public transport to get to the Speedway... how's that going to happen? Their How to get to us page is rather silent on getting to the Speedway via public transport.
So, to be green and get to The Rock on raceday via public transport you can:
- Get the train into Kettering station, and then hope for a cab from there. Or walk the 9-or-so miles. Only problem is first train out from London on Sunday doesn't arrive at Kettering until 1011, thus missing the first race or two.
- Wait for a slightly shorter walk in December when Corby station re-opens.
- Take a bus. There is the "Corbystar 10" which runs hourly from somewhere in Corby to somewhere else in Corby via the Speedway. Again, first bus doesn't arrive until past 10am, so that's no good either.
Motorsport embracing green credentials (being carbon neutral, biofuels, CO2 emission limiting etc.) is all very well, but the carbon footprint of couple of dozen cars doing 50 laps on a race weekend is nothing compared to 15,000 cars travelling to and from a race circuit every other weekend.
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