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Holy shit that would be awesome

Yes please, coolest cars in motor-racing finally here!

ALMS by afternoon/night, A1GP by day? Think of those numbers when combined with the V8s lol. They've held night races before so there is infrastructure to host night time racing. Only problem is not enough pitlane access lol. They could use a underground hotel car park like the support races do haha.

ALMS has been to Aus before hasn't it? I'm thinking Adelaide...2000 time?

But yeah that'd be quite an excellent race.....I can see some of the sportscar die-hards turning their noses up at yet another street race but all you have to do is move the Saturday Supercar race to the Sunday then let ALMS play on the Sat afternoon/evening/night

AGR likely is not continuing in ALMS, and depending what Porsche has in mind, there is possibility Penske skips 2009...


http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2000_Race_ ... sand_Years

Not too shabby name for a race btw.

A long distance 6 or so hr race, say from 4pm-10pm on the Saturday for Le Mans Sportscars would be great, and what a party atmosphere it would be to have a major race kicking on into the night.


Of course the ALMS races at some street races are as little as 2hrs long, so there is the possibitly the cars would just slot into the current spot the IndyCars hold....

I think the ALMS/LMS running here is a long shot though, the 3 previous attempts at running International Sportscars here have failed (Sandown 1984, Sandown 1988, Adelaide 2000)

Oh cool it's still going on?

I'll set off from my house in the UK now, start walking to Adelaide and hopefully still make it in time for the finish!

The ALMS Race of a Thousand Years was the meant to go for 9 years but it only went for 1.

They should have a 500km V8 Supercars (111 laps total over 2 races) event at Surfers and then bring the IRL to you know where.

Calder Park Thunderdome.. Close to Melbourne and wasn't there a NASCAR one-off there in the early 1990's? It would be unique to have an oval race outside the USA.

I have this promo for the 1991 Surfers event and it only shows one chicane. Maybe they changed the layout at the 11th hour or something (near the number 3 stand).

For a moment there I thought you meant Bathurst!

Philip Island is a good track though

Yeah, but they don;t come half way round the world to go to a track way out in the sticks.
They could easily go to Mont-Tremblant which is as good a circuit as PI.

*cough* Motegi *cough*

And Rio. And Rockingham, Eurospeedway etc.

Anyway, ALMS at Surfers would rock.

Yeah, du a ALMS and Indy race in september and forget the v8s!

Didn't the locals have nervous breakdowns because of noise?...at night?

Only the old farts that go to bed at 5pm. Indy is one giant party atmosphere event over 4 days. People blast music from 6am-9pm from hotel rooms (I was walking to the media centre and someone was playing Johnny Cash. I walked about 100m to hear ACDC - Thunderstruck and a further 50m to hear Heeeerreeeeees Johnny! And this was at 6:30 in the morning 2 hours before cars were on track ), night clubs have extended hours from 5pm-7am (On track stuff doesn't even finish at 5pm - V8 Qualy finished at 6pm and was already night time) , there are street parades on a few nights (05 they had the F-111 dump and burn at night which was fantastic), 50 million restaurants are open all night, your right on the beach front and everyone is having a great time. And all this is within 30cm of the track entry gates. If your near by its just a great event to go to. Adding a night race would only make it better. The night races that had previously went down good. A lot of the crowd stayed for the races. Accidents/safety cars went down good. Since they used public roads there were street lights and brighter lights were installed at the chicanes so drivers could see the area.





Except the top part as there are no room for lights.

And IRL imbeciles wanna drop this?

Luke is correct. 80% of the people come to party. Im a local so i watch the racing and party aswell.

I heard that if IRL decides to leave SP, A1GP will replace it?

Yea, but what are the IRL scared of? Exposure? is it too expensive? I thought the local government was handling the transportation bills. Or at least that what I read a few years ago...