...Street races for Homebush & Townsville...Oran Park to go in 2 years...

[retro]

.....credit to...www, foxsportsnews.com.au.......

Ambrose leads qualifying
September 10, 2005

SUPERCAR series leader Marcos Ambrose today made an early claim for back-to-back Sandown 500 victories when he headed the field in qualifying.

The Falcon driver put himself on top of the timesheets ahead of the Top Ten Shootout for tomorrow's enduro when he held off the rival Ford of Craig Lowndes.

Holden Racing Team owner Mark Skaife's quick late lap boosted him up the table to third fastest and made him the leading Commodore driver.

Holden's Steven Richards was fourth ahead of the Falcons of Steve Ellery and Russell Ingall, Ambrose's teammate at Stone Brothers Racing.

Ambrose, the defending Sandown champion and V8 championship pacesetter, clocked a time of 1minute 10.671seconds.

The lap, on a track with damp patches after earlier showers, was just .07 of a second outside his qualifying lap record of 2004.

He finished just over a tenth of a second ahead of Lowndes with Skaife a further tenth of a second slower.

Ingall had set the pace in practice for the event yesterday but today was pushed down the list, still qualifying comfortably inside the top 10 for the all-important shootout session.

Meanwhile AVESCO chairman Tony Cochrane said today that the Supercar series was still pushing to establish street races in Townsville and at Sydney's Homebush.

Sydney lost the Eastern Creek round for 2006 because of the new round in Bahrain but retains a race at Oran Park.

However Cochrane said Oran Park was only likely to be a fixture on the V8 calendar for the next two years.

He also said Phillip Island would be assessed as a grand finale for next season based on its success as the last round this year.
AAP

[D.R.T.]

Originally Posted by retro

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Meanwhile AVESCO chairman Tony Cochrane said today that the Supercar series was still pushing to establish street races in Townsville and at Sydney's Homebush.

This man doesn't give up does he.

Originally Posted by retro

However Cochrane said Oran Park was only likely to be a fixture on the V8 calendar for the next two years.[/B]

What about Oran Parks replacement circuit ?

Originally Posted by retro

He also said Phillip Island would be assessed as a grand finale for next season based on its success as the last round this year.
AAP

Or is it being put in italics for Avesco to give themselves time to work a better deal for PI, as we should not forget that Avesco IS paying Phillip Island to use the venue thus year.

[retro]

Meanwhile AVESCO chairman Tony Cochrane said today that the Supercar series was still pushing to establish street races in Townsville and at Sydney's Homebush.

We can only presume the paperclip will make way for Townsville. :-(

Anyone with circuit diagrams for these 2 street races can you post them??

[HRT433]

source: http://www.racingcircuits.net

[TSR]

[QUOTE=retro].....credit to...www, foxsportsnews.com.au.......


However Cochrane said Oran Park was only likely to be a fixture on the V8 calendar for the next two years.[/B]

Was not the owner of Oran Park going to build an copy circut at Wilton

[mtpanorama]

I have heard that Oran Park has signed for 06,07 and 08

[inpitlane]

According to Tony, OP will be OK for at least 06 and 07 and probably for 08. He also suggested that if EC was to start attracting spectators then they need to redesign the circuit, including running racing in the opposite direction. He also said he thought the A1 Grand Prix would struggle, he questioned the NSW's Governments support for an unproven product. As for Homebush he said that he wasn't losing sleep over it but he could see the potential claiming it would attract 150'000 and should be the final round. in fact he said it "would be bigger than the second coming." He said Townsville was fully designed but that there was still lots of major work to do including the building of a new bridge.
Cochrane was in a very reflective mood perhaps brought about by the fact that he was loaded up with the flu and clearly very tired from his recent travels to Bahrain.
He made quite a passionate argument for the contributions made by AVESCO to the standard of Motorsport in Australia and their role in improving circuit infrastructure.
I have an Interview lined up with him for tomorrow but judging by his condition today whether he's able to front is debatable. FWIW whatever you say about AVESCO or V8 Supercars as a category, my god the whole show has taken on an incredible new level of professionalisim. It's no Le Mans but no doubt it's World class.

[Robert Ryan]

FWIW whatever you say about AVESCO or V8 Supercars as a category, my god the whole show has taken on an incredible new level of professionalisim. It's no Le Mans but no doubt it's World class.
On what he has and the organisation has done for Australian Motorsport. Even Speedway is getting out from it's shell and doing interesting things. One thing is for certain compared to the 1960's when I became interested in Motor Racing, we have in Australia become a lot more comfortable about the local product, no matter what it is, and know we can compete on the World Stage.

[TSR]

With due respect inpitlane, the v8supertaxi as a world class event I do not think it is even half way there yet. It is running of the super mouth of Aussie Bernie to which he is KILLING motorsprt in Australia, And his ego is to big to see the damage he is doing.

[Robert Ryan]

TSR you are far so from the truth it aint funny/.

[Raglanparade]

Does a 15-16 Round Championship sound familiar to anyone ?

[pete55]

Originally Posted by Robert Ryan

TSR you are far so from the truth it aint funny/.

But still a lot closer than you are.

[BJAY]

Originally Posted by HRT433

source: http://www.racingcircuits.net

Acording to that outline, this is where the Homebush track would be held.

http://i20.photobucket.com/albums/b2...3/Homebush.jpg

Thanks to Google Earth

BJ

[Robert Ryan]

Pete...Wonderful reply. So TC is the same as Bernie E? .Runs the greatest motorsport competition on the planet, with the best known drivers and is rolling in sponsorship money. TSR and Pete come up with a better comparison and more facts.

[retro]

"I would put Townsville in the high probability stakes" Cochran,chairman of series managers, AVESCO said at Sandown yesterday.

"I'm sure the planets will line up"

"A circuit has been engineered and completed by AVESCO for Townsville"

Cochran claims that Eastern Creek needs $15 million pumped into it to bring it up to speed and make it a desirible location for fans.

Cochran is not making any commitment to pushing for a Homebush race.

"Homebush needs us,we don't need Homebush." the vocal chairman said.


credit to Gordon Lomas..