Island motorsports enthusiasts are to unite in a bid to persuade Government to back calls for a purpose-built racetrack.

With Randy Horton having just moved into the hotseat at the department of Youth and Sport, motocross, motorcycling, karting, personal watercraft and powerboating chiefs have formed the Bermuda United Motorsports Federation (BUMF).

And in a bid to illustrate their unity and community spirit, the organisation is to dedicate today to painting the headquarters of the St. John's Ambulance Brigade in Pointfinger Road.

The service provides paramedics at all motorsports meetings on the Island, and BUMF is getting out the paintbrushes as a thankyou.

President of Bermuda Motocross Club Ken Parker, speaking for BUMF, said: "All motorsports in Bermuda have got together to form this association. People will be aware of David Jones' (of the Bermuda Motorcycle Racing Club) ongoing campaign to try and find a motorsports complex. With him doing it on his own we have had some problems, so we are trying to get all the motorsports club that will benefit to lobby Government.

"They have spent $3-million on a stadium that we don't use a whole lot so there has got to be some land we could have somewhere to do this."

Parker said the organisation was in its inception, but planned to seek official recognition soon.

"We haven't actually registered with Government yet, but we have a proposal to forward to them in the next week or two about a sports complex," he said.

Parker said the `one for all, all for one' belief was the only way forward for motorsports.

"Numbers mean everything. If we each have 200 members per club and one 200 member club is lobbying Government we are not going to make much headway. With the five clubs we are looking at over 1,000 people," he said.

Parker said he believed everyone at BUMF had the same goal in mind.

"There are personalities no matter what anyone does. But even the powerboaters, who don't have a lot to gain from (such a complex) other than maybe a club house and a place to store things, are behind it 100 percent too," he said. "We all want a motorsports park because it will help in so many ways. It will give us the possibility of racing on week nights in the summer instead of everybody racing on Sunday. Right now are schedules are conflicting and St. John's is stretched to the max to meet those.

"Also within each sport we all need to practice. Basically with bike racing and karting we only get a six month time span that we can actually legal ride in. For six months of the year the kids can't ride their bikes and it has forced some of them to do things that they shouldn't do such as using private property.

"It doesn't have to be anything on a grand scale, but a complex we could have road racing one night, go karts another night and motocross the next night."