Season finale all go for Hampton Downs
Championship titles will get decided on the track after Speed Works got the green light to host the final round of its 2019-2020 calendar at Hampton Downs in September.
The Best Bars Toyota 86 Championship and the RYCO 24.7 V8 Utes series will conclude their seasons at the meeting on September 4-6, which will run on the shorter, national circuit layout at Hampton Downs Motorsport Park.
Geoff Short, promoter, says there will be plenty of other race action at the first big domestic meeting since the Covid-19 lockdown with up to 10 categories expected to field grids.
“It’s awesome that the categories have decided to conclude their championships on the track rather than off it,” Short adds. “That’s how we all want to see our champions crowned and we will do everything we can to help ensure all of the championship protagonists in closely fought categories are able to attend.
“Ticket pricing for this meeting will reflect what we have all been through during the past few months and the indication from the categories is that they have good numbers of drivers ready – and keen – to run."
Short wants the event to be a celebration of cars and is working on plans that will include half-price entry for anyone who attends the three-day meeting in a modern or classic thoroughbred and puts it on display for the day.
“A lot of cool cars will also have been garaged and not doing anything during lockdown, we’d like to incentivise the owners to get them out and along to the event,” he explains. “We all need a good dose of cool cars right now.”.
Push for Supercars return
Organisers hope to see Supercars back in Auckland on Anzac Day weekend next year after the New Zealand round got scrubbed from the 2020 campaign.
The coronavirus pandemic initially postponed the Kiwi leg of the Virgin Australia Supercars Championship from April 2020 to January 2021.
However, it has now been cut from the revised 2020 season calendar – along with racing at The Bend and a second Mount Panorama round – because of doubts about when Australia may reopen its borders.
Auckland Tourism, Events and Economic Development (ATEED) says it will work with Supercars to ensure the championship returns to the city in 2021.
Supercars CEO Sean Seamer has suggested confirmation of the dates for the 2021 season will be announced in October.
