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[Me_3]

and a such a typical response from a f**kwit like you, its a genuine question.. it could end up like the rest of shit that is suppose to happen up here, looks like its taking off and than shit hits the fan and people who have paid up front loose out

Ok Girls, enough fighting! Take it to PM's

Yes, you pay membership now, and its due every year.. The $50 helps keep a few $$ in the club bank account and to help keep things moving.

Just a point that hasn't been made: Everybody involved in this project is doing it on their own time, and quite often it cuts into their family & business time. From what was said at the meeting, There has been thousands of hours put into this project so far, and heaps more to go.

For those who are wanting more details, please check the website (Be warned, it is only new, and heavily under construction.. We only registered the domain last night after the meeting!)
http://www.springmountdragracing.com/

Hopefully bruno's phone can take a break.. :-)

[AE864thachicks]

Drag track will be great, and maybe it might even lead to a track with bends in it nearby like qld raceway.
Im all for it, just wish some of our political representatives felt the same, but they won't because they are *swearing filters own me*wits.

[AE864thachicks]

shagwits hehe

[iceman]

Its an investment.
All investments are a gamble.
If it works then you will be returned more than your initial dollars when it is up and running.If only just in fun.
You should also get voting rights on any decisions being made.
Like a gamble , if you cant afford to lose your investment then dont become a member.
But it will be more difficult for you later on.
It will also sort the men from the wannabes,
so many on this site blow off but very few back up their words with actions , support or MONEY

[meanstreak racing team]

and a such a typical response from a f**kwit like you, its a genuine question.. it could end up like the rest of shit that is suppose to happen up here, looks like its taking off and than shit hits the fan and people who have paid up front loose out

Ok Girls, enough fighting! Take it to PM's

Yes, you pay membership now, and its due every year.. The $50 helps keep a few $$ in the club bank account and to help keep things moving.

Just a point that hasn't been made: Everybody involved in this project is doing it on their own time, and quite often it cuts into their family & business time. From what was said at the meeting, There has been thousands of hours put into this project so far, and heaps more to go.

For those who are wanting more details, please check the website (Be warned, it is only new, and heavily under construction.. We only registered the domain last night after the meeting!)
http://www.springmountdragracing.com/

Hopefully bruno's phone can take a break.. :-)

Nice work to have it up so soon BEN have sent a few thing to you all ready.
Cheers
Leonard

WEB PAGE IS UP AND RUNNING BUT IT IS A WORK IN PROGRESS AND WILL BE UPDATED AS SOON AS POSSIBLE ALL THE CLUB MEMBERS ARE VOLUNTEERING THEIR TIME SO PLEASE BE PATIENT


http://www.springmountdragracing.com/

[7shades]

Drag track will be great, and maybe it might even lead to a track with bends in it nearby like qld raceway.
Im all for it, just wish some of our political representatives felt the same, but they won't because they are *swearing filters own me*wits.

Hehe yeah I'm the same... I find drag racing about as interesting as televised lawn bowls, but I hope that supporting this strip will eventually lead to the development of a REAL track... Y'know... with like, corners n stuff... Or even a hillclimb... that'd do me...

[Me_3]

More done on the website..

There is a good copy of the membership form available on the website now. not a scan of the paper one.

Please, if you have any questions, want to confirm/deny reports you have been hearing, fill out the contact page and your question will be fowarded to somebody who can answer you directly.

Poor Bruno's phone hasn't stopped, so if people could just use the web contact, it would make everybody life a little easier in keeping track of whats being said, and whats happening.

Thanks Guys,

http://www.springmountdragracing.com

[meanstreak racing team]

Nice work Ben keep it up.

Changes to pages are happening on a regular basis please check back we will endevour to get as much up as possible and as quick as possible but please be patient


http://www.springmountdragracing.com/


My compliments to Ben on an efficient and quick job basically left nothing for me to do.

[Adam]

Good on you guys, it will be great to have another fantastic drag strip in North QLD.

Get behind it and support it 100% as much as you can and make your local club work.

[meanstreak racing team]

http://www.springmountdragracing.com/

Drag Racing in North Queensland..........it's Future is in your hands get behind it or it won't happen. Use the web contacts form to give suggestions, use the membership form to join and become a financial member. Now is the time to show you are truely a supporter and that you are genuinely interested. The Far Northern Region needs a purpose built facility where people can try and test their vehicles in a safe controlled environment. The proposed areas is large enough to support a number of different scenarios but it will be primarily used as a Drag Strip, future expansion is not out of the question, but not until everything else is place and up and running. Like I said it's Future is in your hands get behind it or it won't happen.


Please don't post negative or silly comments use the web forms on the website to submit your queries etc, and please be patient all current members are volunteering there time, no one is getting paid and doing this 24/7, so once again be patient.

[Stain]

I went to the meeting the other night and ultimately chose not to become a member or donate to the cause.

Don't get me wrong! I'm all for Motorsports in our region...
But seeing as this complex won't be open for atleast another 5 years (what I got from the meeting,
correct me if I'm wrong) and will only cater to a sport that doenst interest me.
The only hope I have is "It's only the begining, it may lead to something else!"...
So I (like alot of others I'm sure) feel that my money will be best kept in my pocket
to pursue my chosen areas of the sport. Which you can't blame me for, really.

But I do hope that you guys pull it off and get a area for people to do the things they love, truely.

In saying that. I only have one suggestion that'll double,
tripple or maybe even quadruple the amount of people interested and involved in your cause.
Who in turn will bring their wallets (and like myself) be more forth coming with them!

My suggestion (care of 7Shades) is this:



I don't know how much more expensive, what other regulations need meeting or what insurance would be required.
But I do know you'll get every SERIOUS car enthusiast from every form of the sport backing you up because
we'd have a facility where we all can do the things we enjoy. What more could any of us ask?

Edited by Stain, 09 August 2009 - 09:42 PM.

[7shades]

The pic above is the Suzuka Twin circuit in Japan.
Its a very compact circuit.... the main straight you see there is about 600m long. It has two tracks, which can be joined to form one longer one. I've been there a few times and the racing is fantastic...

I echo Stain's feelings pretty much to the letter.

Having done some thinking, I would also withdraw my support of this project as it is being presented.
Why? Because I don't like drag racing.

Now I now you guys mentioned there is 'potential' for future development 'Once everything else is up and running'

I'm going to suggest that you're going about the whole process completely backwards... and attempting to start a drag strip first and other facilities later will fail. Yeah you'll have your strip... but nothing else. No growth.

Think about it like this... What else can you do on a 400m strip other than Drag? Nothing. You're creating a facility for just ONE facet of motorsport... and one with dwindling membership and public interest to boot.

Now think about what you could do with something like the Suzuka circuit above... hell even just the main straight and the right hand track. (which is the one they use for most events anyway, the B circuit is rarely used)

In addition to drag racing:

Public track days
Advanced driver training
Drift
Time Attack
Sprint trials
Banger racing
New car demonstrations
Vintage car rallies
Car club meets
Motorbikes!
The list goes on.... Have a look at the huge variety of events QR puts on (and the waiting list to even book a weekday for a privately booked event) and take note of how many potential markets you're cutting out.

Even better (and quicker) this website is a perfect platform for your market research. It caters to motoring enthusiasts from all walks of life with dozens of different types of vehicles... how about asking US what we would like to see?
We are the paying public after all... we ARE your target demographic if you ever want to see this BUSINESS (and it is a business) succeed.

To summarise in a nutshell: I believe this town is too small to support 'just' a quartermile. If you want this to work, build a track as well. Just a little one. In building a track, you will find overwhelming support from the community, by a factor of 10 or more. Shit, even the boys in blue will sing your praises as the 'hoons' will have somewhere to go for a fang.

Cheers

Jarad

[hirpm boostjunky]

The pic above is the Suzuka Twin circuit in Japan.
Its a very compact circuit.... the main straight you see there is about 600m long. It has two tracks, which can be joined to form one longer one. I've been there a few times and the racing is fantastic...

I echo Stain's feelings pretty much to the letter.

Having done some thinking, I would also withdraw my support of this project as it is being presented.
Why? Because I don't like drag racing.

Now I now you guys mentioned there is 'potential' for future development 'Once everything else is up and running'

I'm going to suggest that you're going about the whole process completely backwards... and attempting to start a drag strip first and other facilities later will fail. Yeah you'll have your strip... but nothing else. No growth.

Think about it like this... What else can you do on a 400m strip other than Drag? Nothing. You're creating a facility for just ONE facet of motorsport... and one with dwindling membership and public interest to boot.

Now think about what you could do with something like the Suzuka circuit above... hell even just the main straight and the right hand track. (which is the one they use for most events anyway, the B circuit is rarely used)

In addition to drag racing:

Public track days
Advanced driver training
Drift
Time Attack
Sprint trials
Banger racing
New car demonstrations
Vintage car rallies
Car club meets
Motorbikes!
The list goes on.... Have a look at the huge variety of events QR puts on (and the waiting list to even book a weekday for a privately booked event) and take note of how many potential markets you're cutting out.

Even better (and quicker) this website is a perfect platform for your market research. It caters to motoring enthusiasts from all walks of life with dozens of different types of vehicles... how about asking US what we would like to see?
We are the paying public after all... we ARE your target demographic if you ever want to see this BUSINESS (and it is a business) succeed.

To summarise in a nutshell: I believe this town is too small to support 'just' a quartermile. If you want this to work, build a track as well. Just a little one. In building a track, you will find overwhelming support from the community, by a factor of 10 or more. Shit, even the boys in blue will sing your praises as the 'hoons' will have somewhere to go for a fang.

Cheers

Jarad

main straight doubles up as a drag strip... so everyone wins.

[NAZE77]

i'd say that the amount of money it would take to build a circuit is more than the organisers have in mind. if you want a circuit, go do your own hard work. if this is going to be ANDRA approved, it will provide far more spectators/cars etc than a circuit will in any case.

you only have to look at the amount of money to govt had to put in to make the townsville circuit to see that's not really a viable option.

lets stick to the strip to start with as the guys who have put in the hard yards are obviously leaning towards that.

[7shades]

I'm not talking about a V8 supercar circuit... I'm talking about a sprint track, something more suited to the majority of potential track day participants... Which would VASTLY outnumber the drag contingent.

Don't misread me here, I DO want this to happen. What I'm putting forward is a logical business case based purely on numbers, which is exactly what the bank manager is going to ask for when it comes time for these guys to sit down in his office asking for a lazy couple of million.

[meanstreak racing team]

The pic above is the Suzuka Twin circuit in Japan.
Its a very compact circuit.... the main straight you see there is about 600m long. It has two tracks, which can be joined to form one longer one. I've been there a few times and the racing is fantastic...

I echo Stain's feelings pretty much to the letter.

Having done some thinking, I would also withdraw my support of this project as it is being presented.
Why? Because I don't like drag racing.

Now I now you guys mentioned there is 'potential' for future development 'Once everything else is up and running'

I'm going to suggest that you're going about the whole process completely backwards... and attempting to start a drag strip first and other facilities later will fail. Yeah you'll have your strip... but nothing else. No growth.

Think about it like this... What else can you do on a 400m strip other than Drag? Nothing. You're creating a facility for just ONE facet of motorsport... and one with dwindling membership and public interest to boot.

Now think about what you could do with something like the Suzuka circuit above... hell even just the main straight and the right hand track. (which is the one they use for most events anyway, the B circuit is rarely used)

In addition to drag racing:

Public track days
Advanced driver training
Drift
Time Attack
Sprint trials
Banger racing
New car demonstrations
Vintage car rallies
Car club meets
Motorbikes!
The list goes on.... Have a look at the huge variety of events QR puts on (and the waiting list to even book a weekday for a privately booked event) and take note of how many potential markets you're cutting out.

Even better (and quicker) this website is a perfect platform for your market research. It caters to motoring enthusiasts from all walks of life with dozens of different types of vehicles... how about asking US what we would like to see?
We are the paying public after all... we ARE your target demographic if you ever want to see this BUSINESS (and it is a business) succeed.

To summarise in a nutshell: I believe this town is too small to support 'just' a quartermile. If you want this to work, build a track as well. Just a little one. In building a track, you will find overwhelming support from the community, by a factor of 10 or more. Shit, even the boys in blue will sing your praises as the 'hoons' will have somewhere to go for a fang.

Cheers

Jarad

main straight doubles up as a drag strip... so everyone wins.

The saying goes unfortunately "You need to learn to crawl before you can walk and run." This project has been a long time in the planning it's conception started way back many years ago with a number of other clubs wanting to do the very same thing; build their own track and until recently it seem to be no more then a pipe dream, so through the work the club has now put in there are submissions lodged with council for a strip not a circuit. We have to start somewhere and with the attitude some people have in the way of negativity it will only make it harder to get to the end goal. This venture will be up and running in no time if it gets the support it needs, it's up to each and everyone if you want it to happen get behind it, if not don't then don't even bother posting on here. If the negativity continues the Site moderators will be asked to remove the negative comments or alternatively remove the topic all together. Once a viable first step is up and functional (ie Drag Strip) then there will be the possibility for expansion in to other ventures from the initial submission there is any area set aside for a purpose built burnout pad, and there could be other things held there. We have to take it one step at a time and make it a viable venture.

Edited by meanstreak racing team, 19 August 2009 - 11:39 PM.

[NAZE77]

every track day i've ever been to has about half the crowd of a decent drag meeting, but this is not the forum to be arguing about which is more popular.

if you want a circuit, get involved and find out. by saying "its not what i want, so i'm not ponying up money" pretty much means it won't happen anyway.

looking forward to the meeting and finding out more... that'll be my last excuse to go to townsville gone when this happens.. joy of joys!!!!

[Adam]

The amount of money to build something like that would be ridiculous.

We have just finished at Palmyra (Mackay drag strip) a sealed return road. This has run into $40,000+ worth of work.

This return road is also nothing of the quality that would be required to race apon.. the costs would just skyrocket to make a multipurpose facility.

You also then have the question of the condition of the main strip after drift cars run over it, what would it do to the surface - prepping a track is not cheap and to prep for one meet to then have it all scrubbed off by drifters afew weeks later is a very costly exercise.

Edited by Adam, 09 August 2009 - 11:17 PM.

[meanstreak racing team]

ONCE AGAIN.........

The saying goes unfortunately "You need to learn to crawl before you can walk and run." This project has been a long time in the planning it's conception started way back many years ago with a number of other clubs wanting to do the very same thing; build their own track and until recently it seem to be no more then a pipe dream, so through the work the club has now put in there are submissions lodged with council for a strip not a circuit. We have to start somewhere and with the attitude some people have in the way of negativity it will only make it harder to get to the end goal. This venture will be up and running in no time if it gets the support it needs, it's up to each and everyone if you want it to happen get behind it, if not don't then don't even bother posting on here. If the negativity continues the Site moderators will be asked to remove the negative comments or alternatively remove the topic all together. Once a viable first step is up and functional (ie Drag Strip) then there will be the possibility for expansion in to other ventures from the initial submission there is any area set aside for a purpose built burnout pad, and there could be other things held there. We have to take it one step at a time and make it a viable venture.

Instead of posting negative things use the website contacts and send your thoughts directly to us with your full details so we can contact you and discuss it or more the point come to the next meeting check the website for details. http://www.springmountdragracing.com/

Edited by meanstreak racing team, 19 August 2009 - 11:39 PM.

[Stain]

We're not being negative, simply posting up our opinions. All we're saying is we believe this way will ultimately be more benificial to your club (to get a drag strip) and the entire car enthusiast scene up here.

I hope you don't dismiss our comments and actually pass them on to the people who are beind this.

And Adam, I don't see how some drift cars would do any damage to a section of track designed to take massive HP tearing down it spinning stupidly wide slick tyres half the way...