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Rockingham
Posted: Wed Aug 15, 18 4:48 pm
by latil
Closes 3rd Sept unless a buyer is found.
Re: Rockingham
Posted: Wed Aug 15, 18 6:47 pm
by Pete
Gone, closing 31-12-2018.
Goodbye and thanks for all the fish...
Re: Rockingham
Posted: Wed Aug 15, 18 8:15 pm
by andyrob

not another, alot of circuit racers hated it, known as the the concrete canyon, but I loved it, as close as we will have ever had to a nascar oval, really wanted to do a test day or track day on the oval but not allowed
Bugger thats the pick up championship that race there just a little bit buggered.....
Ive also heard heard this is hoax and they are still taking bookings for next year......
It has gone bust and changed hands several times allready
Re: Rockingham
Posted: Wed Aug 15, 18 9:21 pm
by Cannonball
Love it or hate it,, WE DO NOT WANT MOTORSPORT VENUES SHUTTING DOWN, That will lead to more fu k in housing estates we could lose it all and that's wan,,k
Re: Rockingham
Posted: Wed Aug 15, 18 9:28 pm
by andyrob
Cannonball wrote: Wed Aug 15, 18 9:21 pm
Love it or hate it,, WE DO NOT WANT MOTORSPORT VENUES SHUTTING DOWN, That will lead to more fu k in housing estates we could lose it all and that's wan,,k
I agree....... but when the struggling owner gets offered big £ once xxx no houses can be built on him race track, hes going to sell, go and sort them out duncan
Lovem or hate him, if it wanst for Jonathan Palmer alot of other circuit would have been shut my now.
Ill be really pi-s-sed if rockingham shuts
Re: Rockingham
Posted: Thu Aug 16, 18 9:18 am
by elevensies
i agree another Bananarama! move to close a track for financial housing gain!!!!
street racing it is then !
Re: Rockingham
Posted: Thu Aug 16, 18 9:20 am
by elevensies
this is about a legit as i could quickly find, no hoax by the look of it
https://www.autosport.com/national/news ... after-sale
Re: Rockingham
Posted: Thu Aug 16, 18 8:03 pm
by andyrob

goodbye the 'rock' then
Re: Rockingham
Posted: Fri Aug 17, 18 12:25 pm
by TW71
What a waste.
Wheres the great British soul of motor racing gone?

Re: Rockingham
Posted: Fri Aug 17, 18 1:02 pm
by Blue
Down to the high cost of land in this country Timbo, other things make more money than motor sport does. It will get worse until you get a government in power with the balls to stop foreign investors driving up the cost of housing in the UK.
Re: Rockingham
Posted: Fri Aug 17, 18 10:12 pm
by sublimemike
OR closing the doors and saying this country is FULL. Less immigration, less demand on housing, less need to build every where on local authorities, planning regs revert to stricter legislation. Land values drop making these purchases less viable for developers.
It's not the whole reason but successive governments have screwed this country up for 20 years selling off local authority housing etc etc.
I'll go and get my coat now.
Re: Rockingham
Posted: Fri Aug 17, 18 10:35 pm
by TW71
Yes you are both correct. Money as usual. A lot of property developers have got rich in the last 15 years I reckon, every where there were factory's and also green fields have houses upon houses, its almost overwhelming. Governments every time

Re: Rockingham
Posted: Sat Aug 18, 18 11:52 am
by elevensies
i shall say it again
STREET RACING
its where people will end up, car groups finding industrial estates, country lames, anywhere people can get a rush.
overstretched police forces anyone?
oh and this isnt a ploy to replicate "street outlaws" its a distinct possibility, reading forums etc