Humes wrote:Isn't his son into the auto scene?
I'm surprised no one has built some sort of track facility as yet. It seems like it could make plenty money. Racing events alone could bring in a good sum. And when there's no racing, it can be used like the Divali Nagar for family days, flea markets etc.
How much would it cost to start a real track facility, with areas for drag, karts, and lap racing?
to make it feasible enough, the track would have to be able to support foreign competitors. An IHRA spec drag strip alone can cost about TT$20m to TT$25m for the basics with proper foundation, adequate safety and facilities for competitors and spectators. Lighting, retaining walls, return lane, pit area, control tower, concessions, restrooms and stands. This does NOT include the cost of the land to build it on. These numbers are from real projects recently explored.
Adding a circuit track to that would significantly ramp up the cost for obvious reasons.
Now I am sure any drag strip can be built for alot less. The strip would have to be 1/2 mile long to allow adequate stopping and shut down. But it would have to be remarkably level to handle local 6 second rail cars. Building a track for street cars only is shooting yourself in the foot because crowds want to pay to see the big guns run low times.
Also if you want to make back that money then you will have to bring in foreign cars to attract more crowds.
makes no sense putting down a crappy foundation now, to later want to break it up to put down proper NHRA or IHRA foundation.
We havent talked about track maintenance and actual running. Track bite, repairs, timing system, staff...
"somebody do it nah" is easy to say.
