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by **AceSniper** » Mon Apr 02, 2007 3:02 pm

Keep note of the word waikato.....

At 11.00am today, the Waikato District Council announced the granting of Resource Consent for the building of the Hampton Downs Motorsport Park, situated two kilometres south of Meremere in the North Waikato.

January 18, 2007 - The appeal period for the land use resource consents has now passed and no appeals have been received by Waikato District Council or Environment Waikato.

by **malc** » Mon Apr 02, 2007 3:16 pm

some photos of the track construction so far:

http://www.hamptondowns.com/Construction-Update.wse

by **FYADUP** » Tue Apr 03, 2007 3:22 pm

Yer, my mate James works as a site surveyor for REID construction, looks like it'll be mean, apparently a world class track.

by **Cahuna** » Tue Apr 03, 2007 6:57 pm

Was speaking with one of the brains behind the circuit at a meeting last night, apparently the circuit was approx 2 1/2 weeks ahead of schedule before the rains last week and they will shortly be taking bookings for 1/1/2009 onwards (he also gave me an indication of prices for hiring the circuit in different configurations, but I'll leave it for them to announce). It also sounds like they have very solid bookings for having driver training courses etc using the track during the week days so everything is looking good for them at this stage.

by **Loudtoy** » Tue Apr 03, 2007 10:09 pm

Razz wrote:some photos of the track construction so far:

http://www.hamptondowns.com/Construction-Update.wse

Thats one really big crane

And don't want to harp on about how old the news is but hasn't hd been talked about, then actually started happening for close to 2 years now?? Well that roughly how long ago i 1st remeber hearing it discussed and who was doing what with who to get it going

by **DriftMonkey** » Wed Apr 04, 2007 10:55 pm

Resource consent took about that long, and they were publicising the apartments etc. for a while. I've been hearing news on this track every now and then for all that time, you just gotta know where to listen

by **KinLoud** » Tue May 01, 2007 10:06 am

Took some pics the other day on the way from Ham to Auck

You can see Meremere dragstrip on the right

It's coming along. woohoo

ken
Ham
021 408 863

Click here to see "My Black Hole" · by **Stealer Of Souls** » Tue May 01, 2007 12:15 pm

Are they building two or three configurations?
I thought I heard it was three configurations... that was quite a long time ago though...

by **85AW20v** » Tue May 01, 2007 11:53 pm

Not many people get that sort of view on their way from Auckland to Hamilton do they Ken - and get paid for it!!

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