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Mark, your anti HD apartment owners stance is showing - again! The apartment owners are keen for the facility to be finished. There is a restriction in place whereby the bank between the units and the track cannot be built on to obscure their views.
As the complex purchaser will also own the Motor Lodge, blocking views and reducing the attraction of staying there would be a pointless exercise.
SOME units were always going to lose part of their view when the hospitality units were built on top of the current pits and a control tower built.
Amon Block owners particularly, cannot wait for the track extension to be built, as their views will be enhanced. They'll get an extra view.
As for "freeloaders". Give it a rest Mark. Those "freeloaders" are often drivers who are competing and officials who are helping run the event - and others have often bought tickets to the events anyway. Without those volunteers, meetings will not run - and we are getting to crisis point now, with two tracks to man on one day.
The extended track will not be used for all events (that is pointless) as the National track as is, does very well and is very much a favourite of drivers.
Putting miserably small grids on a longer track would be a sure recipe for failure and I can't see any purchaser wanting to do that, especially one who has already proved that a big field of Aussie GTs are a massive drawcard - when our own V8 classes are definitely not.
The extension - which will be the club circuit - will be ideal for smaller events that can run alongside the national events and manned by the clubs. Manning the extended track may well be an issue. There is no way running a car event at Pukekohe on the same day as HD is going to be properly manned without a massive increase in marshal and officials numbers - who are all unpaid volunteers.
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