Fordmods Logo

V8s to lap homebush ???? 

 

Page 1 of 1 [ 14 posts ] 

 
 Post subject: V8s to lap homebush ????
Posted: Fri Jul 04, 2008 11:09 am 
Getting Side Ways
Offline
User avatar

Age: 41

Posts: 10829

Joined: 17th Apr 2005

Gallery: 34 images

Ride: BF MK11 XR 6 TURBO ZF 6spd

Power: 225 rwkw

Location: glenwood/sydney
NSW, Australia

nsw tansport minister.... "Morril dilemma" oops! i meant "Morris iemma".. has again put forward the plan for v8's to be racing around Homebush Sydney...... i hope this idea finally gets wings!.. always seems to fall flat... much like the canberra dragracing facility...
Top
 Profile  
 
 
Posted: Wed Jul 16, 2008 12:55 am 
Tyre Shredder
Offline
User avatar

Age: 46

Posts: 378

Joined: 3rd Dec 2004

Ride: EB V8

Location: Blue Mountains
NSW, Australia

Why the hell should NSW tax payers cough up $20-30million for a temporary street circuit when they have already spent $134million on Eastern Creek? You do realise Homebush would come at the expense of losing the EC round?

It makes absolutely no sense to spend public money on a temporary venue wnen;
A, there's a perfectly good permanent venue that the govt already owns
B, temporary venues do nothing to help the public in general (ie. driver training and amateur motorsport the rest of the year)

Heated discussion here http://www.techmasters.com.au/forum/vie ... f=3&t=3494

 

_________________

Production Editor of Performance Motoring at Express Media Group
shollier@expresspublications.com.au
Phone: (02) 9741 3838 (direct line)

Top
 Profile  
 
 
Posted: Thu Jul 24, 2008 11:47 am 
Getting Side Ways
Offline
User avatar

Age: 41

Posts: 10829

Joined: 17th Apr 2005

Gallery: 34 images

Ride: BF MK11 XR 6 TURBO ZF 6spd

Power: 225 rwkw

Location: glenwood/sydney
NSW, Australia

eastern creek managment and v8 supercar managment have had a massive falling out lately and claim they will never race there again...

oran park is closing down... leaving only homebush as the sole sydney event....

and may have huge innitial costs... but with huge crowds comes big pulic spending dollars...
Top
 Profile  
 
 
Posted: Thu Jul 24, 2008 12:14 pm 
Getting Side Ways
Offline

Age: 41

Posts: 1353

Joined: 15th Mar 2007

Gallery: 7 images

Ride: AU XR6

Power: 171 rwkw

Location: thornton
NSW, Australia

hmm sydney street circut. Interesting, very interesting

 

_________________

9/98 AU1 XR6hp-about to retire from the road and be reborn on the race track.
86 ZL mint grandpa spec with premo sound and 150000km
07 TTG 60000km stock as, mods to come.
97 el futura about to be MOCKed

Top
 Profile  
 
 
Posted: Thu Jul 24, 2008 11:24 pm 
Tyre Shredder
Offline
User avatar

Age: 46

Posts: 378

Joined: 3rd Dec 2004

Ride: EB V8

Location: Blue Mountains
NSW, Australia

fordfreak ef wrote:
eastern creek managment and v8 supercar managment have had a massive falling out lately and claim they will never race there again...


True, but why should the NSW taxpayer pay the price so that Cochrane and his mates can make all the profits?

fordfreak ef wrote:
.. but with huge crowds comes big pulic spending dollars...


Do not believe the hype.

Crowd numbers are always artificially inflated and studies have shown the overall effects of events at temporary venues to be negative (infotech has posted heaps of supporting info on that IPRA link that I gave, specifically on page 5)

 

_________________

Production Editor of Performance Motoring at Express Media Group
shollier@expresspublications.com.au
Phone: (02) 9741 3838 (direct line)

Top
 Profile  
 
 
Posted: Fri Jul 25, 2008 12:26 am 
ACT Cruise Moderator
Offline
User avatar

Age: 42

Posts: 6249

Joined: 24th Nov 2004

Ride: '06 BF GT-P

Power: 293 rwkw

Location: Canberra
ACT, Australia

I though TC said that he'd (V8SC/VESA/TEGA etc.) cover all the costs, just needs the NSW gov't to approve it.

 

_________________

1998 DL LTD in Sparkling Burgundy, daily, 302W, stereo, slow
2006 BF GT-P in Ego, mods. Supercharged 5.8L all alloy modular

Top
 Profile  
 
 
Posted: Fri Jul 25, 2008 12:44 am 
Fordmods Junkie
Offline
User avatar

Posts: 11752

Joined: 17th May 2005

Gallery: 11 images

Ride: EL Fairmont, VFR400 racer

Power: 144 rwkw

Location: Melbourne
VIC, Australia

..lets just hope it doesn't go anywhere near Parramatta road...that road is suicide for V8 supercars.

phong =P~

 

_________________

phongus = Post whore 2006
EL XR6 motor, EL ECU + J3 chip, WADE 1673 Camshaft, 3" S/S intake, Pacy 4480, 2.5" Hi flow cat, 2.5" Lukey exhaust.
Max Power = 144.6 rwkw (03/05/2008)

Top
 Profile  
 
 
Posted: Fri Jul 25, 2008 1:25 pm 
Getting Side Ways
Offline
User avatar

Age: 41

Posts: 10829

Joined: 17th Apr 2005

Gallery: 34 images

Ride: BF MK11 XR 6 TURBO ZF 6spd

Power: 225 rwkw

Location: glenwood/sydney
NSW, Australia

phongus wrote:
..lets just hope it doesn't go anywhere near Parramatta road...that road is suicide for V8 supercars.

phong =P~
whys that??

and suiside is a reality for all drivers who decide to use it.. atleast knowing the state of dis repair to it... :roll:
Top
 Profile  
 
 
Posted: Fri Jul 25, 2008 11:56 pm 
Tyre Shredder
Offline
User avatar

Age: 46

Posts: 378

Joined: 3rd Dec 2004

Ride: EB V8

Location: Blue Mountains
NSW, Australia

data_mine wrote:
I though TC said that he'd (V8SC/VESA/TEGA etc.) cover all the costs, just needs the NSW gov't to approve it.


If that was the case then the QLD govt and Townsville council would be seriously p****d that it's costing them nearly $30million over 5 years for their race.

 

_________________

Production Editor of Performance Motoring at Express Media Group
shollier@expresspublications.com.au
Phone: (02) 9741 3838 (direct line)

Top
 Profile  
 
 
Posted: Sat Jul 26, 2008 12:18 am 
ACT Cruise Moderator
Offline
User avatar

Age: 42

Posts: 6249

Joined: 24th Nov 2004

Ride: '06 BF GT-P

Power: 293 rwkw

Location: Canberra
ACT, Australia

Quote:
Cochrane said Homebush would definitely work from a monetary viewpoint.

“We, V8 Supercars Australia, believe that if we can run a street race around Homebush we can make it economically stack up,” he said.

“And if it’s a loss, it’s a loss to V8 Supercars Australia.”

Cochrane said V8 Supercars would take the financial risk at Homebush just as it does at Bathurst, Phillip Island and Tasmania and will at Townsville next year.

“We’re putting our money where our mouth is,” he stressed.

http://www.v8supercar.com.au/content/he ... bun_fight/

Seems TC is paying. (at least that's how I read it)

 

_________________

1998 DL LTD in Sparkling Burgundy, daily, 302W, stereo, slow
2006 BF GT-P in Ego, mods. Supercharged 5.8L all alloy modular

Top
 Profile  
 
 
Posted: Sun Jul 27, 2008 12:08 pm 
Technical Contributor
Offline
User avatar

Age: 36

Posts: 1452

Joined: 27th Apr 2005

Ride: BA

Location: campbelltown
NSW, Australia

thats what it sounds like to me too.

 

_________________

"Chuck Norris does not sleep. He waits."
"Chuck Norris is so fast, he can run around the world and punch himself in the back of the head."
"Chuck Norris ordered a Big Mac at Burger King, and got one."

Top
 Profile  
 
 
Posted: Mon Jul 28, 2008 10:25 pm 
Tyre Shredder
Offline
User avatar

Age: 46

Posts: 378

Joined: 3rd Dec 2004

Ride: EB V8

Location: Blue Mountains
NSW, Australia

data_mine wrote:
Quote:
Cochrane said Homebush would definitely work from a monetary viewpoint.

“We, V8 Supercars Australia, believe that if we can run a street race around Homebush we can make it economically stack up,” he said.

“And if it’s a loss, it’s a loss to V8 Supercars Australia.”

Cochrane said V8 Supercars would take the financial risk at Homebush just as it does at Bathurst, Phillip Island and Tasmania and will at Townsville next year.

“We’re putting our money where our mouth is,” he stressed.

http://www.v8supercar.com.au/content/he ... bun_fight/

Seems TC is paying. (at least that's how I read it)


That's because it's an article on the V8SC website and the author skimmed over the bit where the $30 million in the second paragraph is actually coming from.

"The Sydney Morning Herald article, by Wendy Frew, was more negative, saying: "Sydney Olympic Park, once lauded as the site of the 'Green Games', could be transformed into a giant racetrack by the end of the year after the state government gave in-principle support to a car race that could cost taxpayers $30 million and involve pulling up hundreds of trees and kilometres of tarmac."

Extracted from this article at carpoint;
http://editorial.carsales.com.au/car-re ... 54147.aspx

 

_________________

Production Editor of Performance Motoring at Express Media Group
shollier@expresspublications.com.au
Phone: (02) 9741 3838 (direct line)

Top
 Profile  
 
 
Posted: Mon Jul 28, 2008 10:48 pm 
ACT Cruise Moderator
Offline
User avatar

Age: 42

Posts: 6249

Joined: 24th Nov 2004

Ride: '06 BF GT-P

Power: 293 rwkw

Location: Canberra
ACT, Australia

Yeah, I thought it too good to be true.

 

_________________

1998 DL LTD in Sparkling Burgundy, daily, 302W, stereo, slow
2006 BF GT-P in Ego, mods. Supercharged 5.8L all alloy modular

Top
 Profile  
 
 
Posted: Wed Jul 30, 2008 4:39 pm 
Getting Side Ways
Offline
User avatar

Age: 41

Posts: 850

Joined: 10th Nov 2004

Gallery: 20 images

Ride: 03 BA Fairmont

Location: Forest Lake
QLD, Australia

i read a lot of that thread on techmasters and i gotta say after reading that and how corrupt that cochraine guy it, i feel like boycotting the V8SV's i also feel like a schmuck for being one of those corporate freeloaders at the bigpond 400....

 

_________________

Regards,
Punnisher_42
_____________
2003 BA Fairmont - Stock standard
1994 U13 cough Nissan Cough Bluebird

Favorite Quotes:
"Sportwagon = homo-erotic wank-fest." - downingj

Top
 Profile  
 
Display posts from previous:
Sort by  
 Page 1 of 1  [ 14 posts ] 

Who is online

Users browsing this forum: No registered users and 1 guest


You cannot post new topics in this forum
You cannot reply to topics in this forum
You cannot edit your posts in this forum
You cannot delete your posts in this forum
You cannot post attachments in this forum

 

 

It is currently Fri Mar 29, 2024 5:15 am All times are UTC + 11 hours

 

 

(c)2014 Total Web Solutions Australia - Australian Web Hosting and Domain Names