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Instructions
Design a course on a piece of graph paper that includes turns as well as straight sections. Include challenges like jumps and a sand pit hazard. Factor the amount of space that you have to work with when designing your short track course and keep the overall width of the course to 70 feet and the length to 50 feet.
Use an extension cord to mark out the boundaries of your short course in your back yard. Select a dirt-covered spot of the yard or dig up grass with a garden spade to create a dirt floor for your track.
Press the spade four inches deep into the ground all along the track borders which you marked with the extension cord. Remove the extension cord. Press black plastic garden edging material into the line you marked out with the spade. Bend the edging material, making as few cuts as possible until you have marked off the short track boundaries with the black edging material.
Press the dirt inside of the edging material flat with a hand tamper. Dig a hole that covers half of the lane around one of your track's turns. Fill the hole with sand to create a sand pit in that spot that drivers will need to navigate around.
Create one or two jumps out of plywood. Cut two strips of plywood with a hand saw to measure 8 inches wide by 15 inches long. Prop each piece up on wooden blocks at two points throughout the short track to provide fun challenges for the drivers that will allow the cars and trucks racing on the track to fly through the air over the jumps.
Paint two white lines at the start/finish line with spray paint or lay white electrical tape across the ground at that point of the track. Invite your friends over to race your remote controlled vehicles on your new short track.