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Old 6 Dec 2016, 06:57 (Ref:3694089)   #42
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Originally Posted by GtiMagic View Post
Meanwhile a guy down the road is putting his head down and building a permanent circuit. Not long enough for V8 Supercars, but one wonders if he could have tacked on an extra km if a very small amount of the street circuit funding went his way instead.

http://www.circuititalia.com.au/news.php
Except that large events such as VASC are specifically what the "guy down the road" does not want, nor can the infrastructure around the track handle them and due to a number of factors, nor is the infrastructure capable of being upgraded to handle such large events. I was involved in that project early on and that is the position.
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