Mr Revhead wrote:Clarification of the sequence of events as Autonews understands it:THE V8 SITUATION REVISITED.
Because of the questions that have been raised, here is the situation as I know it.
1. The Circuit Owners Group (COG) met in Dunedin prior to the MSNZ conference and without any involvement from MSNZ decided to issue the ulimatum to V8ST and TLX to get together, seek parity, race as a single field or the the circuit owners would not allow races for the split fields. I was told this was almost a unanimous decision — Taupo hedged as the representative felt he needed approval from his board.
2. The decision of COG was delivered to the MSNZ Executive by Tony Roberts from Hampton Downs who told me they were stunned, surprised, but pleased by the move. It, apparently, came right out of the blue.
3. The decision was then conveyed to Ray Noonan of V8 ST. The rest you know.
Again, a clear lack of leadership and the absence of some sort of defining public statement is apparent.
pretty much it...
there was no mention of parity though, COG didn't talk about it at all but i can only assume this will be a big part of any potential negotiation between the 2 groups
i'm sure there is more than MSNZ aren't telling us but the top guys did all seem happy that this came up, they want it sorted as much as the public. MSNZ do not want to be promoters again so they are quite happy to pass this part on to V8ST
Noonan of course passed it on to his teams in a way that bagged MSNZ, i think his original email said ST were banned permanently
