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Originally Posted by socram
And what has that got to do with it? HD is used 340 days a year and is a viable business. Are you saying a local club relying entirely on volunteers would somehow do a better job?
Highland Park was initially set up as a Country Club with a track for member's use. It now has serious money behind it and is therefore more advanced than HD which never has had massive finance behind it.
Taupo is (I think) owned by the council but relies heavily on the Taupo Car Club to operate.
By all means be proud of what you have got down there, but with land and housing values being what they are around these parts, we are very lucky we actually have access to two local tracks at all.
North of the Harbour bridge, there is nothing, not even a kart track, even though there were tentative plans not so long ago, based on the perceived success of the Whangarei Street race in January 2000, which sparked a fair bit of local interest.
Even the wealthiest car club around here would be hard pushed to buy even 10 acres of virgin land way up on the Kaipara Harbour, let alone anywhere with decent access and infrastructure. You can't rewrite history and times have changed - dramatically.
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It is unfortunate that the Northern area clubs lacked the vision of some others around our country 50 plus years ago and yes at todays prices purchasing the land for a circuit would be out of the reach of all individual clubs.
I guess that we all thought that Pukekohe would satisfy the needs for the coming years and no one for saw the spread of urban growth and how that would impact on the availability of facilities in the years to come
It is a tragedy that the proposal to form a consortium of clubs to build a circuit under the flight path at Manakau a few years ago never came to fruition but then from what I have been lead to believe, that floundered because the clubs could not come to a satisfactory agreement between themselves to support the idea.