V8 Supercars at Homebush Bay, Sydney

[patto]

Talking to a mate today on the phone and he said it was mentioned in one of the Sydney newspapers on page 3 that the V8 supercars will be racing around the Olympic stadium at Homebush Bay next year?

Does anyone else know if this has been confirmed for next year?

If so, this is farkin fantastic news !

An event around the Sydney Olympic precinct would be as big as Adelaide if not better, being in the heart of Sydney the crowds would be enormous.

V8's have always needed a major race in Sydney and now looks like it's a goer for next year.
Who else reckons this will be the best race, on a par with Bathurst?

[SS Sportswagon]

Talking to a mate today on the phone and he said it was mentioned in one of the Sydney newspapers on page 3 that the V8 supercars will be racing around the Olympic stadium at Homebush Bay next year?

Does anyone else know if this has been confirmed for next year?

If so, this is farkin fantastic news !

An event around the Sydney Olympic precinct would be as big as Adelaide if not better, being in the heart of Sydney the crowds would be enormous.

V8's have always needed a major race in Sydney and now looks like it's a goer for next year.
Who else reckons this will be the best race, on a par with Bathurst?

It want be as big or better than Adelaide

[Knight Phlier]

Read about this today on the Telegraph: -
http://www.news.com.au/dailytelegraph/story/0,22049,20002443-5001028,00.html

Bring it on!!

[Febs]

The Cronulla street circuit would've been better IMO. Pity they killed that idea years ago. :(

Still, any Sydney street circuit is good news!

[scotty]

I like it... I like it alot.

does anyone know whether the hotel in the heart of olympic park has balconies... I cant recall seeing them. Time for a refurb...

[Ryzz]

I like it... I like it alot.

does anyone know whether the hotel in the heart of olympic park has balconies... I cant recall seeing them. Time for a refurb...
If they put balcony's on, we will have to get the Army Helicopters to come past with signs for the patrons :lmao: :lmao: :lol: :lol:

[Black_Utester]

Looking forward to it - right in my backyard. I would live and breathe it for 3 whole days.

There's an observation deck there Ryzz at the Novotel.

[ShakeyCan]

Street cricuits are great. I miss the 'ol GMC race in Canberra.
Damn local government.........grumble grumble.......

[Sensig]

Apparently it's because Oran Park is being bulldozed for townhouses. The other rumour floating around is that Oran park is going to be replicated a few km's away from it's current site, although I'd say this is less likely, I would imagine it would be an incredibly expensive exercise!

Found this on an F1 website. Looks like a few tracks might be doomed!!

OUT: Oran Park (demolished), Albert Park (non-champ F1 support race on a rival network to channel 7), Pukehoe (too small, safety concerns), Winton (word is that a long-term future there is questionable).

IN: Townsville (street circuit), Homebush (street circuit), Hamilton NZ (street circuit), Eastern Creek (despite the small crowds, I expect it to be back in future).

[mgygto]

the proposed Homebush circuit is dead boring and it would be a miracle for it to be held in 2007 .... maybe we could use the cross city tunnel .... coz no-one else is!

[V8R]

haha that'd be sorta awesome.. can you imagine the noise? :D :D

[CeeVee8]

I hate street circuits. Put race cars on race tracks.

[SS Sportswagon]

Street cricuits are great. I miss the 'ol GMC race in Canberra.
Damn local government.........grumble grumble.......

I went to the first two and they where shit cold hole of a place no way i could live there a bit boring

[ApeXi]

.... maybe we could use the cross city tunnel .... coz no-one else is!

BOM BOM TISH! hahaha

[Hamico]

http://www.carpoint.com.au/autoaction/

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Auto Action over-excited about Sydney street race.

The long gaps between rounds in the V8 Supercar Championship at the moment seem to be creating vacuums which get filled with what we might politely call overheated stories.

One such, we suspect, is this week's cover story -- "SYDNEY 2010 -- Homebush deal closer as pollies ramp up interest" -- on this week's Auto Action magazine.

Inside on page three the story is headlined: "SYDNEY STREETS AHEAD -- Events NSW confirms a Homebush street race is on its radar."

Here's how it begins:
"The prospect of a V8 Supercar race around the Sydney Olympic Park precinct moved one step closer with the NSW government confirming that it is conducting a feasibility study into what would become a marquee event for Australia's premier motor racing category.

"While it's too late for a 2009 calendar slot, Auto Action understands that the prospect of a V8 Supercar Grand Finale on the streets of Homebush in 2010 is now closer than it has ever been."

The story then quotes an Events NSW spokesperson saying: "We have become involved in this process just in the last week or so when we've been asked to conduct a feasibility study regarding the project, which we've now initiated.

"It is quite a substantial piece of work. We've been brought in through government in the last week or so. It's looking at the logistics, any infrastructure costs, looking at the whole project of holding it on that site."

We don't like potting our journalistic cousins at AA, but the story doesn't couch the possibility -- perhaps even probability? -- that Events NSW will come back with a report confirming long-held suspicions in and around the NSW government that a V8 Supercar event at Homebush is not a goer.

Events NSW's "homework" may include reading the auditor's report on Canberra's short-lived street race, perhaps considering why Perth has been so reluctant to have one, as well as turning the reading lamp on the financial accounts of the F1 GP on the streets of Melbourne's Albert Park.

Events NSW may get a more positive vibe from looking at Adelaide's Clipsal 500 and last April's new Hamilton street race in New Zealand, but it might then need to weigh that positivity against the TV audiences -- especially the size of the international audiences (not the potential reach, but the actual penetration into those potential markets -- i.e. the actual audiences!) -- to gauge whether the world really is hanging out for a Homebush street race.

Even V8 Supercar head honcho Tony Cochrane -- a man never known to see the glass being either half full or half empty, only ever overflowing -- told AA:
"We don't have any sense of being any closer to where we were 18 months ago. Nothing's changed. Our status is the same.

"I've been trying to get a street race up at Olympic Park now for five years.

"My comments still stand: I still would like to get a Sydney street race up, I'm still working towards it, I'm still remaining forever confident, but am I any closer than I was two weeks ago? No."

That seems to be a pretty fair summary of the situation.

[caz375]

Starting to look like this may indeed happen. Taken from todays Daily Telegraph. Full story here http://www.news.com.au/dailytelegraph/story/0,22049,23960372-5001021,00.html


SYDNEY is set to roar, with plans under way to hold a V8 Supercar championship race at Olympic Park from next year.

The move will bring to reality a dream that has been more than 10 years in the making and attract an estimated 250,000 people.

The three-day event is also expected to deliver more than $100 million into the NSW economy over five years.

The Daily Telegraph can reveal a Cabinet sub-committee has given in-principle approval to a proposal from V8 Supercars Australia to stage the annual event at Homebush Bay.

[bermudablue]

Morris Dilemma has already knocked it on the head once before.
Lets hope his attitude has changed since then.

[Hamico]

Starting to look like this may indeed happen. Taken from todays Daily Telegraph. Full story here http://www.news.com.au/dailytelegraph/story/0,22049,23960372-5001021,00.html


I read this today as well. This is fantastic news. :dancenana:

Please vote "YES" for this race

http://www.news.com.au/dailytelegraph/story/0,22049,23965439-5005941,00.html?id=#vote-now-form

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Sydney needs this race, V8 supercars needs this race :thumbsup:

[BionicXR6T]

the proposed Homebush circuit is dead boring and it would be a miracle for it to be held in 2007 .... maybe we could use the cross city tunnel .... coz no-one else is!

The only reason we couldnt use the Cross City Tunnel is because the operators would probably expect everyone to pay the toll....every lap:rofl:


I hate street circuits. Put race cars on race tracks.

They had a plan of the proposed route in the SMH the other day, and, as a racetrack,it looks as boring as bat poo....:spew:
With all the infrastructure round it, the viewing will be crap. :confused:
There talking about ripping up stacks of trees, having to resurface the whole route, tearing up median strips and I won't even mention the damn frogs....the greenies will be up in arms.....:soap:
At the end of the day.....its gonna cost us a bomb and thats all "before" Cochrane bends over the inept Iemma Government for some sort of astronomical "sanctioning" fee then stiches them up on a multi year contract.:moon: ......remember Canberra??
If the Government really has millions burning a hole in its pocket, why not spend it on Eastern Creek to make it a better, more viewer friendly track instead.....Oh' thats right....Tony doesn't want to deal with Australia's Really Dumb Club does he.....sorry :jester:
One of the main reasons we pushed so hard for a permanent racetrack of our own....:)

[Hamico]

Almost there.....

NSW Premier Morris Iemma was on the news the other night saying he now fully backs it, so it's now just a formality........

http://www.v8supercar.com.au/content/hero_news/july08/money_talks_for_homebush_round/

[SICK SS]

townvilles definatly in 10 to the 12 of july next year good luck geting and some were to stay though

[HSV590]

I hate street circuits. Put race cars on race tracks.

IMO street racers are the best...Bathurst aside, the next best racers are Adelaide then Surfers Paradise...half the other circuits they race on are single file boring as bat shit tracks...
Cheers

[BionicXR6T]

..half the other circuits they race on are single file boring as bat shit tracks...
Cheers

Yep...and I reckon Homebush will be just the same....we'll see I guess:popcorn:

[seedyrom]

I've known for a while its a goer.
Infact the engineering behind getting the trees down the main street relocated for the track will then be used when Sydney gets the F1 ;)
(You heard it here first)

Can't say anymore at this stage.
Though the engineering and analysis process means theres a few out there that know :)

[Hamico]

I've known for a while its a goer.
Infact the engineering behind getting the trees down the main street relocated for the track will then be used when Sydney gets the F1 ;)
(You heard it here first)

Can't say anymore at this stage.
Though the engineering and analysis process means theres a few out there that know :)

Sydney won't be any chance of hosting the Grand Prix until at least 2016, Melbourne have secured it until 2015

http://www.abc.net.au/news/stories/2008/07/04/2294536.htm

[toyocharged]

IMO street racers are the best...Bathurst aside, the next best racers are Adelaide then Surfers Paradise...half the other circuits they race on are single file boring as bat shit tracks...
Cheers

RANT/

Street circuits are crap IMHO, if your there you see the cars for 2 corners or flash by down the straight. Tony Cockrane likes them for the TV audience and of course the corporates that really go there for the free grog and food and give no fark for the actual racing. I went to the Clipsal for a few years but the people it attracts do nothing for me, all they care about is drinking piss and either booing a ford or a holden when it smashes. These so called motorsport fanatics (sv8_65 you seem like one of the) only know 2 catergories of motorsport, V8 Supercars or the Brutes:spew:. and wouldn't have a clue about other catergories

Tony Cockrane would love the whole V8 circus to be on street circuits
, and have nothing to do with permenant circuits. Not sure how you develop young drivers without permanent circuits. He cares little about grassroots motorsports and gives nothing back to grow it. The man is pariah of club based motorsport /END RANT

[concept350]

IMO street racers are the best...Bathurst aside, the next best racers are Adelaide then Surfers Paradise...half the other circuits they race on are single file boring as bat shit tracks...
Cheers

Technically Bathurst is a street circuit

Agreed Street circuits are awesome but before long, the Supercar championship is going to be a street circuit championship, with Phillip Island and Hidden Valley thrown in for good measure. Barbagallo is gone after 09. IMO should be more race tracks then street circuits!! Just seems to be that most of the race tracks around Australia are old and run down and are owned by clubs with minimal funds to re-furbished facilities to host the V8's. TC and V8Supercars should flick some coin towards these tracks seeings that it was these clubs that made the V8's what it is today!!!! IMO, Not holding my breathe but........tIGHT aRSES!!

[HSV590]

RANT/

Street circuits are crap IMHO, if your there you see the cars for 2 corners or flash by down the straight. Tony Cockrane likes them for the TV audience and of course the corporates that really go there for the free grog and food and give no fark for the actual racing. I went to the Clipsal for a few years but the people it attracts do nothing for me, all they care about is drinking piss and either booing a ford or a holden when it smashes. These so called motorsport fanatics (sv8_65 you seem like one of the) only know 2 catergories of motorsport, V8 Supercars or the Brutes:spew:. and wouldn't have a clue about other catergories

Tony Cockrane would love the whole V8 circus to be on street circuits
, and have nothing to do with permenant circuits. Not sure how you develop young drivers without permanent circuits. He cares little about grassroots motorsports and gives nothing back to grow it. The man is pariah of club based motorsport /END RANT

Hey bud, don't presume to tell me what sort of race fan I am. Just because I happen to like street circuit racing that doesn't mean I'm a beer swilling ford booing race yobbo.Well the beer swilling bit might be true!! Anyway up yours. :flipoff:
Cheers

[toyocharged]

Hey bud, don't presume to tell me what sort of race fan I am. Just because I happen to like street circuit racing that doesn't mean I'm a beer swilling ford booing race yobbo.Well the beer swilling bit might be true!! Anyway up yours. :flipoff:
Cheers

I rest my case :rofl:,


Just seems to be that most of the race tracks around Australia are old and run down and are owned by clubs with minimal funds to re-furbished facilities to host the V8's. TC and V8Supercars should flick some coin towards these tracks seeings that it was these clubs that made the V8's what it is today!!!! IMO, Not holding my breathe but........tIGHT aRSES!!

Summed up perfectly. Even Cockrane this year pulled the Fujitsu cars from most of the circuits they went to as they now follow the V8 circus, so the smaller tracks suffer even more. I know Mallala used to bank on decent crowds when the lower tier cars raced there, now they havent even got that meeting to boost the cashflow

[concept350]

I rest my case :rofl:,



Summed up perfectly. Even Cockrane this year pulled the Fujitsu cars from most of the circuits they went to as they now follow the V8 circus, so the smaller tracks suffer even more. I know Mallala used to bank on decent crowds when the lower tier cars raced there, now they havent even got that meeting to boost the cashflow


IMO, the Fujitsu series should be running the older tracks to actually headline race meets, not support the main stage V8's. ( a couple of tracks are an exception.) This way people would pay attention to the class a lot more then they do now, Because let's face it, this is where the new talent is coming from. At a V8 round, most people tend to see Fujitsu as " the old cars" and just as a support class and pay no attention at all. If they were to be put on to the main stage themselves, this would help with not only funding for the struggling clubs, V8's in general, would be covering more tracks around Australia, bottom line meaning we get to see more V8's banging around different tracks, in turn better for V8 Supercars Period

IMO

[BionicXR6T]

IMO, the Fujitsu series should be running the older tracks to actually headline race meets, not support the main stage V8's. ( a couple of tracks are an exception.) This way people would pay attention to the class a lot more then they do now, Because let's face it, this is where the new talent is coming from. At a V8 round, most people tend to see Fujitsu as " the old cars" and just as a support class and pay no attention at all. If they were to be put on to the main stage themselves, this would help with not only funding for the struggling clubs, V8's in general, would be covering more tracks around Australia, bottom line meaning we get to see more V8's banging around different tracks, in turn better for V8 Supercars Period

IMO

But they'd never go for that......makes too much common sense.....:confused:

[Hamico]

Sydney 400 was today given the go-ahead :dancenana:

It will be the grand final race of the series with a Gala Awards dinner after the race

http://www.news.com.au/story/0,23599,24419007-2,00.html


:thumbsup:

[Carby650]

Sydney 400 was today given the go-ahead :dancenana:

It will be the grand final race of the series with a Gala Awards dinner after the race

http://www.news.com.au/story/0,23599,24419007-2,00.html


:thumbsup:

yep whilst in Wait Awhile we are still waiting for some action on our race. :sleep::sleep::sleep::sleep:
And our new govt is already priming us for a cut back in projects yet we have this massive surplus.

[seedyrom]

I've known for a while its a goer.
Infact the engineering behind getting the trees down the main street relocated for the track will then be used when Sydney gets the F1 ;)
(You heard it here first)

Can't say anymore at this stage.
Though the engineering and analysis process means theres a few out there that know :)
I don't know why you even bother reading the papers Hamico :)

We know it all here

[Carby650]

So has anybody seen a layout of the track yet?
can't seem to find one on the V8 website

[Hamico]

I don't know why you even bother reading the papers Hamico :)

We know it all here


The V8's at Homebush are now locked in for 5 years from next year, and Melbourne have locked in F1 'til 2015 so the timing would be close for a change.....nice one ;)

[patto]

just came back home from the V8 Sydney race launch in Martin Place this morning, what a great launch, all the drivers were there, except Tander and Lowndes

got 3 grand stand tickets right opposite the pits and 3 pit passes, grand total $814.50 with the 10% discount :headbang:

now, bring on December, yeah!

[conrodss]

just came back home from the V8 Sydney race launch in Martin Place this morning, what a great launch, all the drivers were there, except Tander and Lowndes

I'm :spew: I missed it i had to work , I saw it on the news it looked like a good deal , V8's smoking it up around the city , I bet the drivers were having fun , at the end of the day there is something special about doing burnouts in front of cops on public roads , even if you are a race car driver

[patto]

I'm :spew: I missed it i had to work , I saw it on the news it looked like a good deal , V8's smoking it up around the city , I bet the drivers were having fun , at the end of the day there is something special about doing burnouts in front of cops on public roads , even if you are a race car driver

the drivers has a ball, and the cops were cool about it too :bravo:

[patto]

just heard in the media that Jimmy Barnes and the guys from Cold Chisel will form for a one off concert at the race, how cool is that and I get to go for free as a ticket holder, stoked :headbang:

this event is going to go off :goodjob:

[kayman]

the proposed Homebush circuit is dead boring and it would be a miracle for it to be held in 2007 .... maybe we could use the cross city tunnel .... coz no-one else is!

we'll see, someone has already made the track for Rfactor and its actually a pretty exciting track to drive.

[Knight Phlier]

I got a msg about this that a few bands organised, not just The Chisel!
Friday 4th - The Presets; Sneaky Sound System
Saturday 5th - Cold Chisel; The Living End; Grinspoon

[seedyrom]

So has anybody seen a layout of the track yet?
can't seem to find one on the V8 website

Not yet .... but i'm looking

Found something very unofficial from 2008 planing.

http://www.gmap-pedometer.com/?r=2381432


I need to know. Of course I have fri/sat/sun tickets already, but on the sunday I have to take my son to Homebush aquatic centre for his swimming lesson. From what I can tell, I wont be able to get into the place without driving over the track.

Hmmmm.



Anyone found a map yet?

[SINISTER R8]

Not yet .... but i'm looking

Found something very unofficial from 2008 planing.

http://www.gmap-pedometer.com/?r=2381432


I need to know. Of course I have fri/sat/sun tickets already, but on the sunday I have to take my son to Homebush aquatic centre for his swimming lesson. From what I can tell, I wont be able to get into the place without driving over the track.

Hmmmm.



Anyone found a map yet?

yeah thats the only layout i have seen so far.

but if your kid has his swimming lessons at the hombush site, they might be closing the whole area and cancelling the swimming lessions for that weekend.
just what i would think would happen.

[Hamico]

Have you seen this episode of V8Xtra seedy ?

http://bigpondvideo.com/v8/196882/Neil-Crompton-welcomes-you-to-V8XTRA-your-extra-weekly-dose-of-news-and-interviews-for-V8-Supercar-fans-and-this-week-he-previews-the-Sydney-Telstra-500-in-Homebush

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[seedyrom]

Thanks for that Hami

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Being local, I spend a lot of time through the Homebush site.
This looks great.

Can't wait.

The U2 concert was loud at my house. These cars should be deafening :D

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Just knocked these up.

Size large :)

http://www.oz8.org/gallery/albums/Seedyrom/homebush_500_terra.jpg

http://www.oz8.org/gallery/albums/Seedyrom/homebush_500_satelite.jpg

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Only official thing I could find:

http://www.oz8.org/gallery/albums/Seedyrom/homebush_500_map.jpg

[seedyrom]

Thought I'd take the sheets off the race car and do a couple of shake down laps around the homebush circuit on the weekend :eyes:

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[Black_Utester]

The fencing barriers started going up late last week and this morning they're ploughinng through the rain on Kevin Coombs Ave. Also they have started doing the Pits. Pass through here every day. I live right across the road from the track.

[slr490]

it sounds like this is going to be an exciting race

[patto]

thanks for posting the drive around seedy, cheers. just one thing though you missed the turn at the bus stop haha
those aerial shots of the Olympic precinct look great, can't wait for December

[Hamico]

See link below to a new high-rise apartment development at Sydney Olympic Park

It's located on Australia Ave and will be close to the main straight and pits.

I'm in the process of buying one of these apartments as an investment, these will be snapped up by race enthusiasts.

If you want one, get in quick

http://www.domain.com.au/Public/PropertyDetails.aspx?adid=2007853873

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