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[QUOTE=D.R.T.;3375730]Procar in 2001 had something like 12,000 fans and by all accounts it handled it pretty well[/QUO
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thats bigger than the crowd they got at the so called "Australia's premier motorsport event" earlier this year so even wakefield park is bigger in the rankings |
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And 'handled it' is a very subjective term. But anyway - why do you think V8s should go there? |
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It would be very easy to make Wakefield Park handle as many fans as needed And the new CEO's attitude seems to be wanting other people to spend money building new tracks instead of spending money to upgrade tracks we already have and V8s don't use. I notice they've even 'offered' Mr Skaife to design the tracks...... smells abit like F1 and Mr Tilke.... |
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And the new CEO's attitude is to offer their support of other's people's projects that are completely independent of them. They're trying to be a motorsport community player after years of isolationism. But yes - offering Mark Skaife as track designer at $4000 a day is probably not the type of help they're after. I'd sooner hire Klark Quinn after his efforts at the family racetrack in NZ. He did a cracking job with it. |
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Re Macau I gather years ago a TWR XJS could only get around the hairpin with a "Scandinavian flick" which was not that easy on a slow out lap!
How about coming to Silverstone? They rolled out the red carpet when DJR bought the RS500 up. Maybe Mondello the following weekend with a massive party in Dublin in between! |
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How much tighter is it than the hairpin at symmons plains? V8SCs handle that ok. |
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Regarding the TWR XJS at Macau, here is some footage of it. The Melco Hairpin comes up at about 1:32s. Seems to get around ok (well, as good as any of the others)
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=D3Wtjshszxg In the past few years for some classes racing there, the Melco hairpin has been a permanent yellow flag zone. |
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V8s at Macau would be absolute carnage and a horrendous idea. Couldn't see more than 40% green flag running and more than 10 cars finishing even a medium length race.
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V8's at WP? They must be selling some good drugs this year.
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It may have escaped your notice but they no longer do so. Have you ever raced there yourself? Obviously not if you propose that V8's race there, it is not suitable for the cars in track construction and not suitable for any decent spectator roll up in that it has a distinct lack of facilities. In winter when the ground freezes and the water does not flow the toilets are unusable in the early AM. It is a great track for what it is and has some of the best facilities for club level stuff in Australia but as a track for what is supposed to be the premier racing class in Oz it does not wash. I would hate to have to entertain corporate sponsors as there are no facilities to do so. Seriously some of you guys ought to get out and have a look at some of the permanent tracks and see how deficient they are in every way.
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Every mention of Wakefield Park has included the word 'upgrades'! No one has said that the V8Supercar Championship should race there as is! The question was why V8Supercars were backing money getting poured into brand new facilities rather than first upgrading tracks that already exist. For the record i've been to Wakefield Park many many times, and would happily attend a V8Supercar race there.... but i'm just a race fan who rates a race on what happens on the track, not how 'glitzy' things do or don't look off it. Also wasn't the reason the Development Series stopped going to Wakefield Park the fact that V8Supercars didn't want to have standalone rounds for the DVS anymore, rather than anything to do with the tracks? The DVS races there produced great action. |
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I went there when they ran DVS in either '01 or '02. By the time you cater for support race competitors, you could not swing a cat in the pits. It was borderline chaotic.
In saying that, it's a lovely little venue as it is. It just wouldn't be feesible to pour the amount of money into it, required to bring it up to scratch to host the main game there. |
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