Hampton Downs dump

[RoadRacer04]

The easy way to minimise the traffic jam problem is to ride your bike...

Exactly, who takes a cage to a bike event?

[BarryG]

You guys need to appreciate what the owners have done for motorsport in NZ, and the Auckland/Hamilton market in particular. Tons of planning, tons of money, and they' look as if they've come up with a great course suitable for both cars and bikes. Sounds like most of you do, but there's always a whinger or two, eh?
Contrast this effort to the results of a new owner group of our local (Palm Beach, Florida) racetrack, which had fallen on hard times and while the layout is OK, the surface and infrastructure have suffered years of neglect. Some real estate developer types bought the place, with grandiose plans for a motorsport club for the wealthy. They've re-routed the track, resurfaced it, done a pretty good job, but it is now completely useless as a track for motorbikes! The walls are just off the track surface, there's no runoff, no gravel traps! It's a bloody death trap for anyone falling off a bike!
So we're now down to one track south of Miami (Homestead) which is a good facility, then a motorcycle specific track (Jennings) five hours drive north.
We locals were excited about the resurrection of Moroso - and this is what we end up with! Feck!
So good on you, Hampton Downs, for doing it properly. Hopefully my visit home next year coincides with some racing there.
Cheers
Barry

[puddy]

I can assure you 4 days out of 5 - it stinks



They may say they will, but we'll see - I don't know why anyone would build a 200 room hotel there, apart from the track there is no reason anyone would stay there. It may be booked out for one event a year, and a few people on the occassional weekend, that won't pay for the running and construction of a 200 bedroom hotel, Get real.


No ones complaining about the traffic!! so what are you on about?
And I've already got a life thanks.
I'm looking forward to NZ having a new track - just question why it in such a crazy place; in a swamp between a prison and a dump? And what that's going to do for our international image?
I can just see the international TV coverage – helicopter views looking down at the track, surrounded by a prison and a large dump – mind you the river will look good, but so will the swamp

If ya don't like the smell, don't go! That's about as close as they could get the track to Auckland before some tree-hugging, whale-kissing FAGS started complaining! I go to Taupo for Trackdays, so Hampton will be no problem at all!

[marty]

i went past twice this weekend - no smell that i could detect. except from the great unwashed at the prison (who were the only RMA submissions against BTW).

one big issue i can see is the sun in the mid-late afternoon streaming straight into the multiple apartments - it will be unbearably hot and bright for spectators up there!

and no way will it be finished by late 09.

[MsKABC]

and a foul stench from a rubbish dump that can turn your stomach – boy

A well managed, modern landfill should not smell very bad off-site. Hell, even on-site, landfills don't smell too bad. I used to do landfill monitoring and compliance and spent a fair bit of time at various ones and never found it to be too offensive. Any odour complaints should be made directly to the operators in the first instance, and they and they should be proactive in dealing with them. Long standing issues should be reported to the regional council (Environment Waikato).

In any case, the smell of a landfill is not hugely offensive - it's mostly just methane. Often odour complaints turn out to be something quite different (and can be proven so because of wind directions at the time). Many people blame landfills for smells when in fact they are not even familiar with what a landfill smells like. Not saying this is the case with you though

But in saying that, in the heat we've had lately, and if they're being slack with their daily cover, there could be some odour issues. My advice to you (or anyone else) would be to ring and make a complaint, and give them as much information as you can - time, date, location, description of odour.

Unfortunately landfills are a necessary evil.