How big are MLB spring training stadium parking lots?

And what are they used for the other 10 months of the year? I'm sitting at home watching a game thinking that Florida should have a huge autocross tour that utilizes a multitude of venues (spring training facilities, 3 NFL team stadiums, 4 major college football programs, and 2 MLB teams). The volume of lots is abundant. In theory you could autocross twice a month and never run on the same lot twice throughout the year, and that's without considering lots at track facilities (the firm, sebring, homestead, daytona, west Palm beach). I suddenly want to by a truck and trailer to fill with cones, timing equipment, wrist bands, waivers and fire estinquishers.

Good question. I remember dirt/grass lots for Sarasota and Disney. I can't recall Kissimmee's lot. Nice stadium, though.

Espn is huuuge. You could easily run an autox there. Problem is, disney uses it for other crap all the time.

Isn't the problem with securing sites less about size/availability and more about insurance and damage? I know that locally, they have troubles because of the perception that the cars will tear up the parking lot too much and (although the event provides insurance) they are still concerned that accidents can be blamed on them?

-Rob

We have a couple of autocross events each year at out local minor league baseball stadium parking lot.

Gotta be careful of a lot of lots though, weak prep and thin asphalt combined with years of ginourmous SUV parking can leave you with a rutted/washboard of a surface. (Discovered that at an abandoned shopping mall)

KyAllroad wrote: We have a couple of autocross events each year at out local minor league baseball stadium parking lot. Gotta be careful of a lot of lots though, weak prep and thin asphalt combined with years of ginourmous SUV parking can leave you with a rutted/washboard of a surface. (Discovered that at an abandoned shopping mall)

Before they tore down midway stadium in st paul to make way for the new lowertown park, MAC (mn autox) used to do the spring opener in that lot. Got cancelled one year because we got like two feet of snow the weekend before the event.

In reply to rob_lewis:

When you organize and bring your own insurance that becomes less of a concern. With such a high relative population of lots as long as they are maintained in good condition, I'd expect there to be plenty of viable options even if 60% of them aren't feasible. Heck grass or gravel lots open up the possibility of rally cross :)

captdownshift wrote: In reply to rob_lewis: When you organize and bring your own insurance that becomes less of a concern. With such a high relative population of lots as long as they are maintained in good condition, I'd expect there to be plenty of viable options even if 60% of them aren't feasible. [B] Heck grass or gravel lots open up the possibility of rally cross :)

Have surface, will race.

I just checked the Google Maps image of Space Coast Stadium, the now-abandoned spring training home of your Washington Nationals (they're moving to a new site for 2017 and beyond). There is very little paved parking, with the majority being grass lots.

Most spring training parks are used by minor league teams for the balance of the summer.

As stated, most of these lots are grass. The sports stadium tour is a cool concept but FL has tons of autocrosses already, pretty much every weekend if you're willing to travel.

Steinbrenner Field is beautiful doesn't have a ton of parking space. Raymond James Stadium is across the street, but doesn't have much more.

https://www.google.com/maps/@27.9790927,-82.5069446,1178m/data=!3m1!1e3

captdownshift wrote: And what are they used for the other 10 months of the year? I'm sitting at home watching a game thinking that Florida should have a huge autocross tour that utilizes a multitude of venues (spring training facilities, 3 NFL team stadiums, 4 major college football programs, and 2 MLB teams). The volume of lots is abundant. In theory you could autocross twice a month and never run on the same lot twice throughout the year, and that's without considering lots at track facilities (the firm, sebring, homestead, daytona, west Palm beach). I suddenly want to by a truck and trailer to fill with cones, timing equipment, wrist bands, waivers and fire estinquishers.

Hey Captain, do you mind if I PM you to run an idea past you? I don't want to thread jack...

One of the clubs I run with had held an event at Joker Marchant stadium in Lakeland (Go Tigers) but the connection at the site dried up years ago. I never got to race there. That baseball park actually sits on the remains of what was an Army airfield, but I don't believe the parking lot uses any of the airstrip tarmac.

In reply to paranoid_android74:

I'm not sure my PMs work, dzajano(at) Gmail or 410-3o3-3604 goes for text.