This also serves as a 'grassroots' recruitment ground, as many who start by running their road vehicle on the track for bragging rights often progress to the next level and become competitors in National Events after obtaining a licence from one of the official sanctioning bodies; Auto-Cycle Union or Motorsport UK.

Another record has also been set at Santa Pod, the world's fastest jet car (notably Santa Pod's 'resident') Fireforce 3 piloted by Martin Hill broke the record in Easter 2005 with a terminal speed of 336.10 miles per hour (540.90 kilometres per hour).

[5] In 2012, drag-racer Andy Frost set the record of 'the world's fastest accelerating road-legal car' at the UK's Santa Pod Raceway.

[6] In September 2010, 47-year-old Briton Perry Watkins drove a racing vehicle, a 1994 Reliant Scimitar Sabre, decorated as a formal Queen Anne style dining table, complete with tablecloth, chairs, place settings, food and various vessels.

[7] Santa Pod for many years remained the fastest all-asphalt dragstrip in the world, since most North American tracks are partially or entirely concrete in construction.