Tony Roberts: Thunder Ridge Motorsport Park Director on the first details of the new circuit

The North Island is getting a new motorsport circuit.  

The first details of a brand-new motorsport and driver training facility in the Bay of Plenty’s Tect Park have been revealed. 

Thunder Ridge Motorsport Park will feature 3.2 kilometres of track, with 26 meters of elevation and eight corners.  

Director Tony Robers told Mike Hosking they’re aiming to be a community facility. 

He says driver training will be a huge thing for them, as they’re aiming to get young people off the streets and onto the circuit safely.  

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Episode Transcript

Speaker 1 (00:00):
Good news for motorsport fans or a planned announced this

(00:02):
morning for a race circuit. New race circuit called thunder
Ridge Motorsport Park is going to be open between Tower
On and Rodero Estate Highway six three point two k's
of track, twenty six meters of elevation eight corners. Director
Tony Roberts with us, Tony, good.

Speaker 2 (00:13):
Morning, Good morning, Mike, how are you very well? Thank you?

Speaker 1 (00:17):
At what stage is it at?

Speaker 2 (00:19):
At the stage is that at the moment Mike is
We've got everything in place, track designed, We're just waiting
now to put a lease in place with the council.
It'll be a thirty five year leasd with two rights
of renewals or one hundred and five years.

Speaker 1 (00:36):
So this is a done deal. It's not maybe it
will happen.

Speaker 2 (00:40):
It will happen.

Speaker 1 (00:41):
Yes, what's driving it? Because doesn't taw By Motorsport Parks
sort of cover your region roughly?

Speaker 2 (00:47):
It does roughly, but the old heritage of the Bay
Park circuit and the Bay of Blending is a very
much into motorsport. And there's twour on a half million
pter for within two and a half hours of twa
now Domine Road a ruler, et cetera.

Speaker 1 (01:06):
What's the timeline on it.

Speaker 2 (01:09):
Well, as soon as we get to the build season
and we get the lease in place and we have
we have a plan to do to lease garages on
site which will be for one hundred and five years,
and then where we're all set to go. We we're

(01:30):
very much a community facility. We're aiming at people that
you know, the driver training and the new guys, the
young people, getting them off the streets and onto the circuit.
Trying to training will be a huge thing for us
to do. We'll go to the schools, that kind of thing,
to try to get people into more safety, which is

(01:53):
the whole thing.

Speaker 1 (01:54):
Really good, good, exactly, Well, I wish you all the
very best that we're going to follow it with a
great deal of interest in good luck. Tony Roberts, Who's
thunder Ridge Motorsports Park between Tampo and Rodaluf.

Speaker 2 (02:03):
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