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30 Oct 2019, 08:18 (Ref:3937579) | #1 | ||
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Indycar in Sydney?
AA reporting that the NSW Government is going to fund a double header race in Sydney with Supercars & Indycars...
Doesn't say where? https://autoaction.com.au/2019/10/30...6563E8PTxp7OFI Apparently deal with QLD Govt has fallen over. Puhleeze not SMP. If there was a race to have a double-header like this please let it be Philip Island (I know I am dreaming). |
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30 Oct 2019, 09:13 (Ref:3937589) | #2 | ||
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If an Indycar race ran under lights at SMP it mightn't be so bad. I'd go.
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30 Oct 2019, 09:31 (Ref:3937593) | #3 | |
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It would be nice to see Indycars in Australia, like it used to back in the day when it went to Surfers Paradise
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I'd deffo come over from England for that one. Surfers was brilliant
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If not SMP, it'd have to be a street circuit.
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Who would want to spend money to get on TV in the US? Can't really have the Katoomba Street race can we? |
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30 Oct 2019, 14:19 (Ref:3937647) | #8 | ||
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Olympic Park? Newcastle?
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Too bumpy?
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30 Oct 2019, 20:45 (Ref:3937717) | #10 | |
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Oran Park?
I couldn't care less for anyone who bought land there, so I think a street race would be cool... |
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NSW has the best racetrack in the country, but it's unavailable for ~ 50 weeks of the year.
Given the Vodafone F1 car got around there okay a few years back, surely it could be a possibility? |
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The drivers would kill for it but surely it's too bumpy.
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F3 will be the fastest open wheelers that visit the Mountain "regularly" ie more than once.
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Homebush is out due to the Western Sydney metro.Newcastle is not Sydney.Bathurst is not Sydney.
Anyway either of these circuits are not remotely suitable for Indycars even allowing for some of the goat track street circuits IndyCar have raced on.Bathurst has no run off at most points. I would be surprised if Supercars quit Eastern Creek within months of convincing the same government to install permanent lighting there to lock in a Supercar round long term. Will probably all come to nothing. |
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I'm not sure if this Indycar rumour comes to fruition that it can be at SMP either. Not enough pit facilities for both categories...
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Alternatively Supercar needs 12/13 of the double garages.How many does that leave for IndyCar?Another 12 would do it. Still doubt it will happen |
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Surly no circuit has garages for support races? They have to camp in the paddock
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Heads Up! Indianapolis Motor Speedway Corporation announced that the track and series have been sold to Roger Penske...he may be on a shopping spree...look out Bathurst, PI, The Bend and Eastern Crick!
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It probably deserves its own thread. Ford flogs complain about Roland's money while Roger buys the entire Indycar series and Indianapolis motor speedway
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