Only 19,000 people? Pap there's only bloody 19,005 people in the NT isn't there?
Athough I am ot a Ford fan, I would have thought 888 racing would have been a pick. I think the whole V8 thing will fall over in a couple of years. The cars are way to expensive to build and no one is buying the cars they are esuppossed to represent. Bring back the good old days when we had Nissans, BMW's Volvo's, Jaguars etc and only slightly modified versions of a road car.
Oh. I just thought it would have been bigger?? I have never been, so I dont know. Are the other races bigger than this one? They were talking about the Supercars in Townsville next year having approx 50,000 people there each day. They were also talking about not having enough accom for the weekend. There are currently 7200 "sleeping rooms" in Townsville at the moment. They will need A LOT more for the event and there is plenty of apartment complexes being built there at the moment. But they need more hotels/motels etc. They will have 'tent city' there next year for a short term fix for the Supercars. They will have 1500 tents setup to sleep in. There was also talk of turning the "Strand" area into a Gold Coast type Hotel/Cafe/Resturant strip in the near future. But the accom shortage will be an issue for a while yet. Townsville gets booked out for the NRL Cowboys games ffs! 7200 rooms full for the weekend just for footy. Dairy Farmers Stadium holds around 20,000 people. You can safely assume 7000 of those people are from out of town.
I looked at the V8 Supercar website today. They just ruled out Chrysler and Toyota for entering the 2009 season. No more talks of them entering the Supercars at all. Mark Skaife said it is time to add a 3rd marque to the sport. The timing is right he said. Perhaps people are getting bored with them and they need an V8 Toyota Aurion or Hemi 300C to get people excited again?
I don't know, but I do recall Moretts posting once and truggling to spell wwww oooo rrrrrr..................... Never did finish it. He could delegate.
Rob's working on this now. Next few days, hopefully, he'll change the backup to streaming so that the server doesn't have to shut down, stay tuned! Dave
Feel your pain on this. 8PM your time is 6AM Eastern Time in the US, which is when I hop on every morning before I head off to work Rob's been trying to find a time and a way to do this without disturbing the force here. I think our best hope is that he and the hosting company can find a way to do the backup streaming instead of having it lock the system for 10-15 minutes. If he bumped it three hours, it would land at 9 AM my time, and that would make it 3PM in England, 6 AM on the west coast here. More folks than just us would be *****ing if he did that. Give it a week, let's see what Rob can do with this. Dave
