Can another race circuit be financially viable?

Circuit of Wales race track given go ahead at Ebbw Vale

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-wales-23246491

 

hmmmm...there are also rumblings about bringing Thruxton online for Bike Track Days...

 

i read this article earlier. it looks like it is gonna get built as long as the goverment dont put a stop to it. (i suppose it will depend how much one of them will get for saying yes)

 

Jealous!!!

 

i would have to say no, we have some great tracks with so much history, i would like to see the money spent to keep these in the 21 century, i would hate to lose brands hatch cause no event was held there because of competition

 

I have a feeling Thruxton will dropped from the BSB calendar and the Wales one will get a Bsb round

 

I think there is a market and room for more smaller tracks, scattered around the country, and change the way we teach, and learn to drive, make a generation of new learner drivers have to leanr to drive on a track at say 16 onwards and pass control tests before allowed to learn on the road, this in time will generate racing drivers and people willing to do more track days for cars and bikes

 

ones of the things with this location though is that it would lead to much neeed jobs in that area. im not sure that somewhere like Brands would need to worry about competition from a new track. its the most popular track in the south and there are many events held there each year. i am hoping that WSB will one day come back to it too