Vehicle Transport to Croft Circuit
Most people know Croft for the rallycross, and the moment you drive in you can see why. It is a flat, fast circuit laid out on a former Second World War airfield just south of Darlington, and the corners still answer to the names the club racers gave them decades ago: Clervaux, Hawthorn, and Sunny In and Sunny Out, a pair that runs you out towards the far side where the banking used to be. Getting there is the easy part if you are coming up the A1(M), because the circuit sits a short run off the main road by Dalton-on-Tees, but the paddock is not huge and the big weekends, BTCC and British Superbikes above all, fill it to the fence line. That is when a privateer with a trailer and no plan ends up parked a quarter of a mile from his own garage. We take that headache off you. We drive your car or carry your bike up from the south west, with the spares and tools, and we get it into the paddock and off the trailer before you have to think about sign-on. Rallycross cars, track-day machinery, a classic you are bringing up for a summer meeting, it all travels the same way: one of us at the wheel, everything sheeted, nothing handed off to a third party at a depot somewhere near Scotch Corner. You tell us the event and the load-out time and we plan backwards from that, because at Croft the difference between a good weekend and a miserable one usually comes down to whether the car turned up on time and in one piece.
Non-road-legal race cars
A rallycross car with no lights, no glass and a sequential box is never going up the A1(M) under its own steam, and we do not pretend otherwise. We load it on a covered trailer or a low loader, strap it down properly and sheet it, and we bring it straight into the Croft paddock. No depots, no swaps, and no asking you to meet us in a layby near Northallerton.
Race bikes
Croft's bike weekends bring Supersport and club machinery from all over the north, and a race bike hates being bounced 350 miles in the back of a van. We carry bikes on a dedicated rack with wheels and fairings braced, and we take the warmers, the generator and the spare wheels so you are not borrowing levers from the next garage along on Saturday morning.
Rallycross and sprint cars
Rallycross is what made Croft famous, and the cars are their own problem: short, squat, usually covered in mud from the last round and very rarely road legal. We move them the same way we move everything else, cleaned up, strapped down and sheeted, with the spares and the spare wheels along. If the bodywork is hanging off, we tie it down rather than pretending it will survive the run.
Multi-car team moves
If you are running two or three cars at a Croft meeting you know the maths already: multiple drivers, multiple fuel bills, multiple vans and nobody sure who is bringing the transponder charger. We move the whole lot as one convoy, each race car driven by one of us. One booking, one arrival, and the cars all land in the paddock together.
Paddock-to-paddock and non-runners
A car that broke at the last round and has sat on a trailer ever since is not a problem. We winch it, push it, whatever it takes, and we bring the spares so it can be fixed in the paddock rather than trailered home untouched. We deliver to your garage or awning, not to a gate, and we stay until the car is off and settled.
Timing around BTCC and BSB
Croft's BTCC and British Superbike weekends pack the roads round Dalton-on-Tees and the paddock itself, and gate times tighten up on the big days. We know the sign-on and scrutineering windows for those meetings and we plan your arrival backwards from them, so your car is in the paddock with time to spare instead of us arriving late because it suited our diary.
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Frequently Asked Questions
How long does the run up to Croft take from the south west?
We normally allow a full day from Devon with an early start, arriving at the circuit late afternoon or early evening so you can unload before the gates close. Croft sits just off the A1(M) near Darlington, so the run is straightforward until the final few miles into Dalton-on-Tees. We confirm a firm arrival window when you book and we stick to it, and we would rather take a proper stop than push through and turn up tired with your car on the back.
Can you move a rallycross car that is not road legal?
That is a big part of what we do. Rallycross cars, track-only cars and non-runners go on a covered trailer or low loader, strapped and sheeted, and there is no extra charge just because the thing has no lights or no MOT. We are used to loading low, wide machinery and cars with damaged bodywork, and we tie it all down properly rather than hoping it survives the run up the A1(M).
Do you cover club meetings as well as the BTCC and BSB weekends?
Yes, and honestly the club and rallycross meetings are where we earn our keep, because those are the weekends where a privateer has already spent the budget on entry fees and tyres. We price a single car or bike sensibly for those events and we are happy to carry one club car rather than insisting you fill a trailer to make it worth our while, and the transport bill will not wreck a weekend that is already costing you enough.
What about load-out times on a Sunday night?
If you want us to stay for load-out after the last race, book the return when you book the outbound and we will plan the whole weekend around you. Sunday nights at Croft run late, and the last thing you want after a long race day is a long drive home with the car still on the trailer. We sort the return so you can leave when the meeting actually ends, not when our diary says so.
Can you carry a race bike and its spares in one trip?
Yes, and we would rather do it that way than watch you strap a bike, a set of tyre warmers and a generator into one overworked van. The bike goes on a proper rack with the wheels and fairings braced, and we carry the spares, the spare wheels and the rest of the kit. Everything arrives together, and you are not scrounging round the paddock on Saturday morning.
Do you deliver paddock to paddock or drop at the gate?
Paddock to paddock, every time. We bring the car or bike into the circuit, help get it off and into your garage or awning, and only then do we call it done. We do not drop your car in a layby outside Darlington and wish you luck. If your slot is tight and the sign-on queue is long, we time the arrival so the car is there before you are.