The thing that I notice about Australian race tracks from watching the V8s is that quite a lot of them are quite fiddly, tight tracks placed in a relatively small area, yet you have a huuuuge country with nothing in most of it...
Mainly because our major cities are so far spread apart, and we cannot get the required financial backing to upgrade or build proper racing circuits, with the exceptions of some,
Just some things I would like to point out with Australian racing circuits that support your statement,
Adelaide and Perth state governments were both willing to fork out large sums of money to build entirely new facilities of quite decent size 4.5 - 6 km's in length, Perth wanted to try get Formula Nippon and Indycar to go there after losing the WRC (who knows why they lost that?) And Adelaide wanted DTM, NASCAR and a few other world series events, But both parties figured the facilities they had were good enough,
Someone came from Japan and laughed at the Barbagallo facilities and left, Adelaide managed to get ALMS for 1 race on the former F1 street circuit,
They claimed the former F1 facilities weren't good enough, The pit lane wasn't long enough and the final corner was to difficult to navigate, apparently that was a 4 year deal but thrown out because the Adelaide government didn't want to change the circuit and make the pit straight longer,
Now I have been informed by a few people that work on the Clipsal 500 committee that the costs of running the event for almost 15 years has exceeded $700 million (information I received around 2 years ago) Think of the motorsport complex that could be built with such money,
As for places that did have the money to build new circuits like Queensland, I hate to be a hater, But how boring is the Ipswitch race on the paper clip circuit? Its a bull ring, its dull, not many drivers like going there, the fans don't turn up anymore and the facilities are just over 10 years old and look like they have suffered since the birth of christ, ( The track was designed by Mark Skaife hence its lack of character) Yet that money could have gone into the Lakeside Circuit, It really annoy's me!
As for the naughty Nurb grafitti, isn't that in the game?
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