2025 MRP Media Rules
Mission Raceway Park welcomes any and all professional media to the facility. Our priority is your safety and to provide a professional working environment that ensures everyone has an equal chance to do their job and showcase our facility in as positive a manner as possible. In this age of extreme sports and extreme shooters please note the many safety rules we have in place below. Understand that your credentials can be revoked without prior warning at any time. Not knowing is not an excuse. Upon receiving your credentials you will be provided a copy of these rules, that we suggest you read completely before entering the restricted areas of our facility.
Please note that the following rules are for most events, but not all. Major Events, such as the NHRA National Open, may be stricter should NHRA officials decide. This can happen at any time, so you are advised to check with MRP in the event you may require further NHRA authorization.
All media credential requests must go through the office one week or more prior to the event you wish to attend. EMAIL [email protected]
Recognized Media showing up the day of the event, without prior notice are NOT guaranteed access to the starting line. There is NOT an unlimited number of event Media Passes.
Recognized Media is existing television, radio, print, or web personnel who have a recent previous history of covering MRP events*. Freelancers who cannot provide links to previous coverage or work orders will not be issued Media Passes. Official Track Photographers from other facilities can only get a media pass if they are working for a track site, publication, etc.
*Recent previous coverage is at the discretion of the Track Management.
Freelancers, even those with professional identification, can only get a media pass by providing written terms of work from their publisher, editor, webmaster etc.
The use of any MRP imagery used in a commercial manner, with or without official track permission, may result in licensing or legal fees that you alone will be liable for. If you don’t know ASK!
The track has a number of persons who provide the facility, racers, sponsors and fans with photos and videos. If you happen to capture something you feel officials may want to see, please feel free to contact us at any time.
Please note that ANY photo or video taken while on the property will be considered the property of the BCCCA, and can be requested by track officials for unlimited use with no financial return at any time. Refusal to grant access to such imagery may result in legal action and/or loss of credentials or access to the property for future events. Also note that while recording photos, videos or audio that you are on private property and as such all laws apply in the event you attempt to sell or market your media without permission of the owners – the British Columbia Custom Car Club. This is regardless if you are a professional or amateur, with or without restricted area access.
Racers who have friends, relatives or even professional photographers/videographers recording their runs from the starting line must have the friends/relatives/photographers/videographers sign the Restricted Access Waiver in the Timing Tower. You may shoot your car from this area, but not an entire class. Officials have the ability to shut down any cars on the line should an unauthorized person be in an area they should not be. If you have any problems, please contact the Race Director.
Classes or sponsors who have their own photographer/videographer must contact the Media Director before coming to the track to be issued credentials. If you wait to contact the day of the event you risk not getting credentials.
Any credentialed photographer or videographer, other than those recognized by the track, attempting to sell photos, video or any other products created from MRP imagery, to anyone other than the media outlet for whom they are working and received their credential through, either on or off property, will have their credentials revoked immediately. Those without credentials wanting to sell or market any product or service created or partially created with imagery from the property MUST contact the Media Director to determine if it will be allowed. The use of any imagery showing persons or signs in a commercial manner, with or without official track permission, may still result in other licensing or legal fees that the seller alone will be liable for.
After an event, the Media Director may contact you, requesting a limited number of photos or videos from the event. These may be used in advertisements, blog posts, on social media, or however else MPR sees fit. Credit will be given for the photos or videos, as applicable, but is not guaranteed. We request that all photos and videos be provided “clean”, without a watermark, so as to best utilize the assets for promotion of the MRP facility and events. Failure to provide photos or videos on request may lead to your Media Pass being revoked.
General Media Rules
- NO photographers/videographers over the wall. Crew must be behind the wall or behind the Vehicle on the starting line. Photographer/videographers may stand in the middle shelter.
- You may ONLY cross the track behind the water burnout area only. Be careful as rocks fly when cars do burnouts.
- Top end access is limited to the last turnoff road and is available to Media Pass holder WITH INSURANCE ONLY. Inexperienced shooters need not ask.
- Access to the stand atop the bridge is available ON REQUEST ONLY.
- Access to the roof of the tower is available ON REQUEST ONLY.
- Non-insured photographers/videographers may not go past the end of the concrete pad alongside the startline. If you do not know where this is, ask!
- NEVER turn your back on a running car. Follow the second car down the track, not the first.
- In the event of an accident, STAY CLEAR and DO NOT go over the wall for any reason. The safety crew operates at very high speed, so stay out of their way! Please hold any media regarding incidents until approval from Media Director has been given to release photo and or video.
- CAMERAS must be securely attached to the vehicle with appropriate fasteners. Cameras may not be attached with suction cups, wire ties, hose clamps etc. For any camera mounted externally to any vehicle, all mounting brackets, associated fasteners, hardware etc. from the camera to the vehicle attachment point must be metal. No plastic or non-metallic components permitted. For all vehicles, attachment to the Driver, the Driver’s helmet, or the steering wheel/handle bars is prohibited.
- ***Proof of Personal Liability Insurance Will be Required for Media to access Restricted Areas***
- NO FLYING OF DRONES OF ANY KIND UNLESS APPROVED BY THE MEDIA DIRECTOR. Transport Canada requires all flights at Mission Raceway Park to have a valid SFOC-RPAS.