A promoter group working as Turcin Avis has been engaged on the revival of the short-lived Canberra road race for a number of years now.
The plan entails a circuit constructed across the Exhibition Park precinct relatively than the Parliamentary Triangle format utilized in 2000-2002.
Nevertheless in keeping with a report within the Canberra Occasions the bid has hit s important snag, with chief minister Barr declaring that he will not assist it.
In line with the paper, Barr feels the outlay of “tens of hundreds of thousands of {dollars}” would not make monetary sense.
“The evaluation from the directorate was that it didn’t stack up,” Barr stated. “It will have required a major funding from the territory authorities in infrastructure at Exhibition Park that we weren’t able to make.”
Russell Avis, one of many proponents of the plan, expressed disappointment each on the rejection of the bid, and the failure to have interaction Barr in a face-to-face assembly to handle the monetary considerations.
“Sure, there could be up-front infrastructure prices concerned however our intention was to leverage commitments that had already been made to improve the highway community and the brand new Exhibition Park facility,” stated Avis.
“These [races] are huge occasions in different states and territories; they bring about in hundreds of thousands of {dollars}.
“This occasion actually deserved a extra thought of research than we imagine it was given. We had tried a variety of instances to get that sit-down assembly with the chief minister to stroll him via what was proposed however we couldn’t get time in his scheduled, which is basically unlucky.”
Avis added that whereas the Barr rejection is a set again, the dream of a Supercars race in Canberra just isn’t over.
“We nonetheless imagine on this concept,” he stated. “We have now another plan to carry a V8 Supercar race to Canberra.”
The ACT is at the moment the one Australian state or territory that Supercars would not go to.
