Fun concept but I don’t see it being cost effective.
You’d have to shrink the number of Group entries to keep risk down and that turns into a financial math project of whether the number of registrations covers the composite schedule of fees to rent the track.
Rental of the portable light sets would be costly and require placement testing by a TDD and CRs in advance of the actual event to ensure the focus of lighting supports the riders’ vision and trajectory at pace.
This would predispose N2 to look for small tracks like you mentioned and
@The B Team aptly recognized the limitations of JenningsGP and Roebling. Plus the thought of riding at night with my life in Barb’s hands is pretty close to a daytime nightmare.
It’s likely the majority of riders who ride on the track also have bikes with lights. However, I’m just not confident that people who ride on a track are going to want to bring their street bike when their muscle memory is “track = speed and plastic bad”.
And if this were intended to be a draw for beginners, they need to get hooked in the daylight first anyways.
I’m a positive person but I recognize my answer sounds like Eeyore, especially the part about Barb. But I can see it now…I spring a leak and Barb goes to meatball me. Because it’s a night event, she adapted like the North Florida girl that she is and wrapped a big ‘ol mess of LED patio lights on a string around a mop pole and waved it at me causing me to jump out of my skin and catastrophically end my track riding career as my bike launches off the berm into outer space.
I can hear the launch monitor nerds over in Cape Canaveral asking if they were expecting some sort of launch event from the Panhandle.