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Taupo Motorsport Park (also called the Taupo Race Track) is a motorsports circuit located in Broadlands Road,Taupo, New Zealand. It is owned and operated by MIT Development Ltd. It is considered to be the best facility of its type in Australasia.[1] The circuit was completed in 2006 at the cost of NZ$13 million. It features a three-story pit lane complex with 32 ground floor pit garages, 13 first floor corporate suites and a second floor race control/corporate/catering complex. The track also features an NHRA standard drag strip (830-metre long, 17 metres wide) with full capacity viewing.
On January 21, 2007, Taupo Motorsport Park hosted the sixth race in the 2006-07 A1 Grand Prix season and on January 20, 2008, it hosted the fifth race in the 2007-08 A1 Grand Prix season.
The Taupo Race Track project has received a Silver Award by the Association of Consulting Engineers New Zealand, praising the high-quality delivery of the project, which was designed and constructed in tandem to achieve very tight deadlines.[1]
In May 08, 2008, Newstalk ZB reported that the motorsport park is NZ$3 million in debt and the owners are seeking equity to help keep their business afloat. A1GP New Zealand chief Gary Dawson believed that those issues should not be a worry.
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- ^ a b Taupo Race Track - Innovate NZ, Brochure of the '2007 ACENZ Awards of Excellence', Page 18
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Coordinates: 38°40′6″S, 176°8′40″E
