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Thanks for looking. Yeah, I've seen that basic outline. Thankfully, as I've checked again, the official track website has actually updated the track diagrams, so at least some of them show more of the link roads and roughly how it all fits together.
I just wish there was something less crude out there, for one, to give a better idea of the actual shape of some of the corners. The elevation changes and cambered corners are nice, but I'm not convinced about how it will translate to the actual racing. I hope this place "pops" more than, say, the track formerly known as Miller Motorsport Park, but I'm really not sure that it will. (Please put in some trees, and make sure there are landmarks, other than the pit building.) |
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Looks good. Nice shot from the air on Australian F3 site.
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Santo tour down under facebook page just showed stuart o grady doing a lap on a bike (well abrief 1 min clip)
worth a look if you want to see more of the track, |
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Onboard lap of the full circuit. Looking pretty good!
http://www.adelaidenow.com.au/sport/...78cfe35046c98a |
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Interesting to see how this translates to the paying punter out there. As is the case with many of these multi configuration circuits, a lot of the circuit mightn't be accessible for viewing. Time will tell.
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She's in the middle of a long way from anywhere.. accessibility is a genuine issue..
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Have booked a nice little houseboat in Murray Bridge for August....
Accommodation in Tailem Bend itself is a bit skinny but there's plenty in Murray Bridge - some over in the wine country at Strathalbyn too. |
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The Bend is an hour from the middle of Adelaide's CBD, with 90% of that on a 110kph Freeway, on which the circuit is located. It could not be easier to get to from the city, let alone any of the suburbs in the East or foothills. Once you get on Glen Osmond road out of the city you.. drive straight for an hour and reach your destination, on the left. If an hour from the middle of a city of 1.2 million is 'the middle of a long way from anywhere' then I'd hate to see what Phillip Island or Winton are classified as, because they're two hours out at best (without taking into account any dramas on the Monash or the Hume). Sydney Motorsport Park is 50 minutes from Sydney airport when traffic is good (so: never) and that's still in the suburbs! It's 40 minutes from the Adelaide Hills and 20 minutes from a lot of the lower Murraylands, Lake Alexandrina and surrounding tourism regions... it's even 65 minutes to the Barossa Valley if you are so inclined. Murray Bridge, as others have noted, is 15 minutes away and I bet within two years has a thriving Air BnB market for major events at the Bend, much in the same way much of Bathurst departs each February and October to make some cash out of renting their houses out. I would argue that 'in the middle of a long way from anywhere' is actually 'located where no one will ever complain about noise, ever' and ideally placed to draw easily from not only the city and the 'burbs but the South East and even Victoria. At a guess, I would argue that there is a similar amount of accommodation within 30-40 minutes drive of The Bend as there is within the same radius of the Phillip Island GP track. I just don't get the 'but it's so hard to get to / there's no where to stay' argument that keeps popping up about this place because it's absolutely a non issue. As for spectating, having seen the place I think it may surprise. There will be some good viewing areas. It'll be Phillip Island like in sight-lines, though you'll be able to see more across the circuit as there's no pit building in the middle. |
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Accommodation is more the issue than accessibility.
But as mentioned things will change to suit. Buying a place out there to AirBnb is already a conversation we've had at home and I bet plenty of others have thought the same. Apparently Mr Shahin went and bought everything in the real estate windows up that way months ago |
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I agree Richard, we race at PI every year and I think there is a similar amount of accommodation in that time range, if you include the Victor Harbor/Goolwa area it's also beachfront accommodation just like PI, only a short ferry over the Murray from Wellington and you are there
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Great post, on FB or speedcafe i would have thrown you a like for it
Thats about how i see it as well. whats that other big track thats a few hours from a major capital (on a worse road) Mt panorama or something similar, it seems to go ok an enterprising land owner my bring in a toilet bloke and rent tent sights at a few bob each I went to mallala back in 97, it took much more than an hour up a dirt road to get back to adelaide Ps only shortened to save space, nothing else |
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275. The fabulous National Motor Museum is in Birdwood - only an hour away.
Put that on your list too! |
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Cheers to all, not my first time over that way...used to regularly fly in when we were building Land Rovers at Wingfield (argh...the perfumed air when the wind was blowing the wrong way)...and Osborne for the gazunders...not to mention ATC stuff at ADL Airport and the hills :-)
Rocking Horses? I vaguely remember something like that over Hahndorf way... Saddest is that the fella with all the Arials out near Tanunda has upped stakes??? |
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Ahhhhhh poop! I explored that area a little in the past (eg Seppeltsfield tour) and didn't think of checking out Collingrove...
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