| Yes you indeed do normaly have to pay if you are commercially selling at the circuits. As with anything nowadays, if there's a buck to be made, somebody wants their share of it.
I believe £150 is the norm'. You could also be required to have public liability insurance.
I could get a press pass for the day probably via my contacts but as it's not for a bonefide race event I would no doubt be asked what I need it for and when I say it's a trackday, then the cost/payment issue would undoubtedly come up.
I have looked at all the costs for doing this type of thing. If you look at it from the point of view that if you sell 10 CD's @ £20 then you've covered your pitch fee. I would assume that the likes of Gary @ Picman (with his good quality images) sells a helluva lot more CD's than that to the 100 or so riders you get at the average trackday. Yes he has a big rig and upto 3 photographers plus PC staff to pay for, but it must stack up if he's doing it, especially if he's doing it 5 days a week.
I just don't have the startup funds yet to a) get a van/etc, b) pay the pitch costs or c) pay for someone to help me with displaying/selling images whilst I'm out on track taking them.
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