Circuit of Wales?

[entropy]

http://www.telegraph.co.uk/sport/motorsport/formul...

http://www.pistonheads.com/gassing/topic.asp?h=0&a...

[EDLT]

Just like Donnington.

[Rude-boy]

EDLT said:

Just like Donnington.

Except they don't even have a track yet.

[DanDC5]

A new circuit is always welcome. But £250 million will not make a circuit to rival Silverstone.

[MonkeyHanger]

Planning permission for a new circuit? Good luck with that one.

[MG CHRIS]

I believe they have or are very close to having permission to build it. Hopefully it will be built lets be honest wales needs a good race track track pembrey is out the way and the facilites are well basic, angelsey has spent loads on new track and facilites but it's a 5 hour drive to get to it and i live in the carephilly area. Also it will be only half hour drive from me and time to get my new kit car out on track hopefully.

However im waiting for the green looney camp to go off on one saying it will ruin the lanscape how i don't know it's not like rasser is a beauty hotspot

[Steve H]

I'd be curious to know who's stumping the 250 million

[Bitofbully]

What a waste of money.

[MG CHRIS]

Bitofbully said:

What a waste of money.

Is it i think it a great investment for an area of wales thats needs all the money it can get. Most of the money comes from private investers and the rest from the welsh assembley. Atleast money is being spent in the valleys rather than cardiff all the time.

[Bitofbully]

I know the area and know that anything not chained down will be stolen.

There is absolutely no point in building a circuit there - F1 may go to some crappy places, but I can't see any attraction in taking it to the benefits capital of the UK.

[MG CHRIS]

Bitofbully said:

I know the area and know that anything not chained down will be stolen.

There is absolutely no point in building a circuit there - F1 may go to some crappy places, but I can't see any attraction in taking it to the benefits capital of the UK.

So instead of investing in the area to get the resisdents into work you rather leave it be as it is and leave the people on benefits.

Its not just a track but in time a hub for motorsport and manafacturing in wales with new industrial estates and so on just like milton keynes is with motorsport, drugs companies and other high tech industries.

[Fonz]

Good luck to them, I hope it's as sucessfull as it deserves to be.

[ImpossiblyDaft]

Bitofbully said:

I know the area and know that anything not chained down will be stolen.

There is absolutely no point in building a circuit there - F1 may go to some crappy places, but I can't see any attraction in taking it to the benefits capital of the UK.

Except its only the paper talking F1? The actual quote refers to touring cars, superbikes etc. putting it as an attempt to build investment in the area with a track on a level with Brands Hatch and Donington?
Whether it'll be any better than some of the failed attempts at creating jobs round there in the past is debatable, but it certainly sounds like they've thought through what they're up to.

[Olivera]

So a proposed 4th circuit for wales? And Scotland only manages one

[majordad]

My advice to anyone thinking about supporting this is google "save the ring ". Same story here. Beware !

[IanUAE]

Hasn't the same group who wish to build the circuit just bought the company who make FTR chassis?

[Dan Friel]

MonkeyHanger said:

Planning permission for a new circuit? Good luck with that one.

I suspect that will be the easy part, any regeneration project should get strong support. Encouraging more private investment into the business / industrial elements will be very tricky.. Only then will the circuit follow, but it could be a tempting bait..

[aeropilot]

Madness even thinking of building a circuit to host such major events in a location that has next to no easy access from major road/rail/air networks.....how do they think people are going to get in and out of this place?

[Cyder]

Olivera said:

So a proposed 4th circuit for wales? And Scotland only manages one

What have I missed? Pembrey, Anglesey and ?

[coppice]

It is a truth universally acknowledged that the only 4 wheeled event which gets a huge crowd is the Grand Prix. BTCC gets reasonable numberfs- everything else- bar Silverstone Classic and Goodwood Revival gets two parts of bugger all. I attend 15 + race meetings a year and at nearly all of them there are more competitors and their families than there are paid up anorak spectators like me. For reasons I never really grasp the majority of self confessed petrolheads or whatever daft name applies just don't watch motor sport except from the settee. Given this fact , given the fact that newer circuits like Rockingham are near deserted, as are Donington and Oulton for many meetings ..where the hell is the income going to come from to keep such a new circuit afloat? The words 'pig' and 'fly' spring to mind, sadly.