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Originally Posted by Phoenix
When you say "finding a policy that makes this economically sound", are you thinking insurance?
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Yes, I'm talking about an insurance policy.
As to "forgiveness is easier than permission", that's normally true. Except, in this case, not only do you not know who you'd be dealing with, but you don't know what their perceived liability would be. You've heard it before - this is a litigious society. If I were the owner, I'd want to be darn sure that:
1 - You have no recourse to sue me in the event you hurt yourself or your equipment on my property
2 - There's no possible way anybody else could get injured
3 - You've got insurance to cover damage done to my property, and damage you suffer from defects in my property.
From my point of view, there are too many variables to feel comfortable letting you do that on my property. Lose your brakes and crash into my warehouse? Take a corner too hot and go thru my fence? The pothole developing in the south corner is really starting to crumble. What if you take that at speed and lose control? What's my liability then?
High performance driving is huge fun, and ultimately can make you a safer driver, but practicing it requires a unique set of precautions. If a reasonable attempt has not been made to address these precautions, I think it would be very hard for the property owner to defend himself in the event something goes wrong. A waiver is one thing, but I doubt it would be worth much more than the paper it's written on.
So, that's what I would say if you asked to drive on my lot. I know, for an absolute fact, that there are lot owners out there that would have no problem with it whatsoever. Thing is, you don't know until you ask permission.