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Frequencies are licensed, not radio equipment per se.
If you are talking to workers at the track, using their frequency, then that organization will (should) have a license for their frequency. You just need their permission to be on their system, along with the technical details of how the radios should be programmed.
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This, exactly. I road raced motorcycles for eight years, and because I had a small (i.e. less expensive) program (only three races a weekend), I also made time to volunteer as a corner worker. I brought my own radio and headset as I have plenty of them to bring and this is precisely how it works.
However, that said, and with all "i's" dotted and all "t's" now crossed for the CoC, most tracks I've been at use itinerant frequencies, are not licensed, and don't respect the power limit rules on those frequencies. In short, they are like nearly every itinerant, GMRS or MURS frequency user: banging away at 5W on the portables, and 25 or 50W on the base station. With a big antenna on the base station, no less. So if you decide to simply do whatever you want chances are you will be just fine
P.S. racing wasn't nearly as scary as corner-working. Most of those guys are too scared to get on a motorcycle and race, but are perfectly comfortable having bikes shoot by with inches to spare at 100+ MPH. I think they are crazy and would much rather be racing within inches at much lower relative speeds!