I guess the bit to look at is:
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In that evaluation, ongoing challenges – including Hamilton’s distance from a major corporate centre, modest hotel infrastructure and the downturn of ticket sales in the Waikato region – have also been taken into account.
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Really there's only two area's in New Zealand that would come under those, Auckland and Wellington.
Obviously Christchurch is in no state at the moment to be bidding for a V8 race or anything similar, even if the accommodation industry is likely to be back up and running before any event in what I would guess will be November 2013.
Wellington.... obviously it might be a bit of a challenge to get it past the greenie-mayor but hasn't it tried to sell itself as the 'events capital' of NZ for a while? it certainly has the hotel infrastructure, corporate background and a fairly strong economy to support a V8's event. Not too sure where you'd have a street race though? down by the waterfront would be nice, but way too disruptive for the city I would imagine.... Maybe Lower Hutt? then it's probably too far away fro the city & it's facilities.
And then we get back to Auckland, which has plenty of space, facilities and corporate support....