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IndyCar could return to Surfers' Paradise

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    First IndyCar goes back to Road America, now a return to Surfers’ Paradise is on the cards? Happy days!

    http://www.goldcoastbulletin.com.au/sport/gold-coast-600/indycars-tipped-to-return-as-v8-supercars-lock-in-deal-to-secure-gold-coast-race-until-2019/news-story/7b8e45a1b26847c8c1f8d3ecf6cded6a

    “All our concern at the moment is on securing the approval through government to hold the event with IndyCars as the major attraction — 2017 is a possibility, 2018 is more than possible.”

    #323480
    Alex green
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    Was there for a few days last year enroute to melbourne great place to go watch a race
    Remember they have the commenwealth games in 2018 so maybe after that more realistic??

    #323482
    VMaxMuffin
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    It’s probably worth pointing out, for those who don’t know, that they cannot run the full track any more. A couple of years after IndyCar left, they decided to build a light rail track, which runs down Surfer’s Paradise Boulevard (the road that the track ran down from the exit of the first chicane all the way down to Turn 3 (the first non-chicane corner, a slightly-more-than-90° left). This resulted has resulted in the road being too narrow to run a track after the location of the former second chicane (which is now a hairpin left, bringing cars around on to the back straight at the exit of what was Turn 6). The short track is still great, as much as I mourn the loss of the full track, and at 2.96km it is also still slightly longer than St Petersburg and Toronto (2.90km/2.82km), and not much shorter than Long Beach (3.17km). So there isn’t anything to stop them running the short track.

    #323485
    Little_M_Lo
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    The Light-Rail was built to help accommodate the upcoming 2018 Commonwealth Games, an even runs directly beside the track after the first chicane.

    On Google Maps the light rail isn’t available yet, this is the revised layout however: http://www.gmap-pedometer.com/?r=6897131

    #323486
    VMaxMuffin
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    If you look on “actual” google maps with the Google Earth imagery you can see the rail line. https://goo.gl/maps/EYhxiUVHBYN2

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