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February 2003
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Re: drag strip
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Mon, 27 June 2005 06:18
 
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suggestions?
Land near the brisbane airport (i'm guessing this on the basis of your #1 post) would be incredibly expensive to lease - you've already got the BAC converting open-space into ware-house outlets and other open-to-the-public businesses. The kind of deals and money needed to play in that sandpit would be frightening. I'd strongly suggest that cabulture and/or north of there is where you would start to find suitablly priced leasable land with adequate buffer zones and access.
The cost of site development and maintenance is going to massive, hence your leasing costs are going to be even more impressive.
There's a good reason why willowbank and morgan park (and soon kilkoy) get gov't support - they're a long way from anywhere - so they'll irritate as few voters as possible.
You'll need local gov't on your side - Pine Rivers has shown it's resultance to support this kind of thing (see the Lakeside Raceway disgrace), Brisbane City council is more concerned with tunnels and media opportinities, Calounda is a pro-development council reticent to do anything that scares away development (and future rate-payers) - as is Noosa. You'll need energy and cash to burn for your lobbying.
Drag-only venue would limit you busines expansion: a small track and/or skid-pan would let you co-host with businesses like driver-training, go-karts corporate entertainment, motorsport testing, driver-safety, license-training, motorbike training/testing. And it's those businesses that will provide the track management more stable cash-flow than infrequent drag events.
The motorsport precinct model seems to be more acceptable venue for development - willowbank & warwick come to mind. Multi-mode development (warwick is horse, polo, trailbike, bike, drag, circuit, shooting, etc sporting sites on a large property) lets you cross-subsidise participants but you need coorporative kinds of participants.
Drag events rely on crowd numbers and sponsorship. You would need those kinds of events to maintain a 'drag racing' profile yet you'd face an enourmous battle to get onto the calendar. Plus you'd have to convince teams to come up to Qld more frequently.
It's a catch-22 - you need the larger events to support the venue during quiet times, but to run larger event you face increased business and liability costs.
Having tripped over a similar discussion on boost can i suggest you setout in much more detail the proposal you would like people to express interest in? Not the boost is the most articulate forum around, but some of the flamage came out of lack of detail (and reading ability).
I'd prefer to see more info and detail first.
cheers and good luck.
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