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Caught the news on 1 tonight and was blown away by the announcement in the sports round-up that Taupo has been given preliminary approval to host MotoGP for the next 7 years starting next year pending track changes and funding approval.
This might be old news to some - but it completly caught me by surprise.
Anyone know any more about this??
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Might be hype, but recorded here a few hours ago...Originally Posted by k1w160
http://tvnz.co.nz/view/page/411749/716603
Be cool eh?
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Can KBers block book tickets?
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Would Prime show it live? Or would it be delayed until 1.00am because of a rugby game in OZ?
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I KNOW!!!!!:spudflip: They've gotta wait and see if the govt will give them $12k of funding though so hmmmmm....
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Slipped a couple of digits there bud.
$12 k to secure the Moto Gp for Taupo we could just about do a Kiwibiker pass the hat around, 12 mils a touch deeper than most pockets stretch though.
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The Govt. fund this?
You've got to be kidding.
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on the up
I don't agree.
If its tied in with Tourism New Zealand, the money could be forthcoming.
Another opportunity to sell NZ as the adventure capital of the world and all that ... there's a huge market in MotoGP fans.
I think a few submissions to the government are in order.
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Superbikes I could maybe see, but MotoGP? Be brilliant if it happened.
At least there would be someone in the stands, unlike several of the current venues. Nor would we need to consider running it at night so as to get a half-pie acceptable temperature (and to hide the fact that the stands and carparks are empty?)...
Certainly MPs would need to be educated as you could probably write the sum total of their collective MotoGP knowledge on the back of a postcard.
As far as Helen goes I suspect that $5mil for the arts is one thing, $12mil for motorbikes would be something else. Also she couldn't sign it and pretend that it was hers
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Who in particular? Minister of tourism?
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I too could see WSBK... and at a stretch MotoGP... But i dont think the seats would be empty... There was 20000 at Wanganui (even though it tied in with the Jimmy Barnes Concert) and i know a hell of alot more people would come to watch if it was high profile like MotoGP... Then there is all the overseas spectators that would come... I think we would do better than the amount of people going to Chinas venue...
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Yep, remember the America's Cup funding from the government?
The argument has to be made in terms of overall benefit in terms of tourism, high technology development etc (think Virtual Spectator, composite material development and design).
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There ere actually over 30000 people at Shanghai this year. Didn't look like it but they were all in the main stands on the front straight.
Where the hell would 30K+ people stay in Taupo for a weekend?
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