Landseer Park BMX Track, Ipswich

Landseer Park BMX track updated to national standards

Landseer Park BMX Track

Clark & Kent Contractors were chosen to design and construct a high-level competition BMX racing track at Landseer Park, near Ipswich.

Construction on the full-size national standard racetrack included tarmac-surfaced corners, a 5-metre start hill with an all-electric ProStart BMX gate, and a 325-metre track.

Motocross champion Dave Bickers and Barry Scott-Webb from Ipswich Witches Speedway helped to construct the track, which used a ramp attached to the side of a lorry for its start hill. The mayors from Ipswich and Colchester attended that day to see the action.

Ipswich BMX Club is the UK's longest-running bicycle motocross club. It formed in 1980 and has held events at its Landseer Park track ever since. The club grew through the 1980s, and its Landseer Park track underwent an extensive rebuild and layout change to host two international events in 1989 and 1990. Ipswich hosted further national races in the 1990s, culminating in their last major event, the 2002 British BMX Championships.

In the following years, the Landseer Park track began to fall behind the standard of national BMX racing tracks built across the UK. In 2021, the club raised £350K to bring their track to a modern national standard.

Clark & Kent Contractors were chosen to help the club realise its 20-year ambitions. With years of experience and expertise in designing and constructing high-level competition BMX racing tracks, we were the obvious choice for the project.

Following a detailed design process in consultation with Ipswich BMX club, British Cycling, and Ipswich Borough Council, Clark & Kent created a modern track design that would future-proof the Landseer Park site for years.

Construction started in June 2021 on the full-size national standard race track that incorporated tarmac-surfaced corners, a 5-metre high UCI shape start hill surfaced in tarmac and a new all-electric ProStart BMX gate.

Please see BBC News item here.