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The President of TTASA Mr. Mohammed Ali said his association has started the clearing of an area immediately north of the Camden runway / drag strip that will be used for a circuit racing track.

Mr. Ali said the new circuit will be 1.1 miles long and will be more or less a mirror image of the track at Wallerfield. He said the new track being constructed will be 40 feet wide and paved with asphalt with wider sections at the corners with sand traps.

TTASA, the National Governing Body (NGB) for Motorsport in T&T was granted permission by the Commissioner of State Lands for the use of Camden for motorsport activities in 2011 and has been having only drag racing events there since. The completion of this circuit racing track would see the rebirth of circuit racing in Trinidad which was stopped completely with the closure of Wallerfield in 2006.

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3NE•2NR

see what happens when ppl join forces

little opposition and allyuh start getting things

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^ this was more than likely planned the day TTASA got Camden.

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3NE•2NR

niceness!

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those pics are for archives man-this is history in the making..Trinidad has so much potential for Motorsports..this is just the beginning.

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Any thing that can go wrong,will go wrong-Murphy's law

Great news.........five cars park up since 2006...........it always have a 'but'........
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SAME TING LIKE WALLERFIELD ????............critics may be harsh...but dey right on spot here....cyar even use a clean slate to make something better.........
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hey....on the 'bright' side....ppl doh even hve to change dey setup from 1970's days....jus' run een & 'run'
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rofl

kee kee kee? ^

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"Qui audet adipiscitur"

time to start saving money to build a car.

Fixored

As much as I'm all for progress, I'd rather believe it when the first race at the 'track'? has finished. this is what ? the third time or is it fourth time we seeing 'development of a track' commencing?

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...Minister Underwriting National Gunta Affairs...

Wonder if this is another vision 20/20 It starts but never ends!

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GODZILLA MOTORSPORTS!

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kekekekekeke

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did we miss something ?

with a clean sheet of paper you'd think they would try a different track configuration.........

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So they could do this and still not buy Temporary Concrete Side wall barriers for the safety of Drag racers , Running Off and Flipping In the Bush continues

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Belittles FugiTECH he is THE SR20 Specialist that cant even change an Alternator Belt..Calls back a month later with a Technical Question> Sad

is that an assumption as well?

could also be assumed that the Ministry of Sport squeezing TTASA balls to get the ball rolling....which is more likely than all the other assumptions seeing that Minister Roberts has told them to get their act together

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Flew out of Camden this morning. Looks like they paid for the bulldozer for the day to clear 100ft x 500ft alongside the runway. No more equipment on site.. while I would be happy for a circuit track, does TTASA have a CEC for this work or is this just smoke and mirrors to make it seem like they're doing something?

WRT the fugitives comment.. I agree. When I asked why they weren't buying barriers and they should use the proceeds of the events to buy some to eventually line the track I was told that they aren't going to invest in anything at Camden because it's just temporary and that money would be better spent on the permanent facility. Now they're going to re-build the wallerfield track in Camden?!

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Most likely they just clearing the land to get ur guys hyped up and start back coming out to their events and the land will be overgrown again with no progress being made......or very little and slow progress to keep you "hooked to their line"

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this sounds like a plan. it was either a car for dex (or this now) or a go-kart in the next couple years

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Wise man once told me.fast car cld go fast in straight, fast driver cld take car through hard corners and not end up in tree

exactly!!!

as someone said i will believe it when i see the first race

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well let's see where this goes...anyone down in that area it would be great if you could provide us with "progress" reports...

All this means that is the final death for drag racing. TTASA as we all know is a circuit club, once circuit gets in the way then there will be no need for drag racing. It seems that drag racing paid the way for a circuit track. Drag racers got duped once again.

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WDA.. yuh bypass my post completely?

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NOW im happy hahahah. really hope this pulls through. if it does, gotta get me a time attack wing yo.

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hahahaha I mean going forward, not today dummy

pete..
that 'work' going on within the boundaries of the airfield......CEC doesn't apply...how much work u see in Piarco... cec sheit don't come up for runway apron work...
faster this done is faster autocross, drifting, karting, solodex & time attack come to pass....YES...RC racing too !!!
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ah sorry for zoom raider :

what...with 7 different motor sport disciplines fighting for 8 weekend spots per month
oops...make that 8 disciplines...forgot to list CIRCUIT RACING above

as only TTASA via link would have them operate apparently. sigh.

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There are 7 different motorsport disciplines?

Or do you mean affiliate clubs?

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don't forget that the MSGC would have sorted out the scheduling logistics.........c'mon man...organisational structure has its upsides too