Uni starts nest week. And looks like I’m getting thing sorted out a little more. I’ve got a fair idea of what the building is doing at Bathurst and I’ve started putting a pretty detailed image together of which race track I’m going to need to look at. 

Wikipedia's list of motor racing tracks 

I really wanted to do something that was within driving distance but it hasn’t worked out that way. I start off looking at the idea of the track being within Newcastle. After all 1 was proposed. It would make for a great street circuit. And do a lot to draw in a huge number of people into the city. The bad side is that they don’t stick around for long and the amount of money that would be needed to start a project like this would be huge. To level all the street, block it off, provide access to those people that live within the track and still maintain a level of safety to both the drivers and fans. Hard. 

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So Newcastle was off the list. Sydney was the next closest and it didn’t provide anything that was grabbing my attention either. Most of the permenant tracks that were there didn’t have enough of a program to make the idea of building an iconic building viable. If they could afford it, nobody would ever be there to fully use it. So Eastern Creek in Sydney was out too.

I moved to Symons Plains in Victora as the next one, but again same problem, it had the V8 supercars there for a week, but other then that it was just general track days that are smaller race events.

Phillip Island then caught my attentions. Here was a track that held races for the V8 supercars, the Motogp, World Super Bike Championship, and had a building that didn’t respond to the site. The perfect location has just been found. After going to the website for the circuit it was all set in stone. The owners of Phillip Island, Linfox Pty Ltd, were in the process of making the grand prix circuit more environmentally friendly.

Phillip Island Grand Prix Circuit 

The Linfox group had already installed a water recycling system that even when the circuit was being used to its capacity, no grey water left the site. Water run off from the building and site was also stored and used within the track confined and the Linfox group were attempting to reduce the amount of greenhouse gas emissions by offsetting it. They are in the process of planting over 2400 trees on the site. I’m not too sure how many emissions this offsets but doing something is a start and that’s better then nothing.