Barbs needs the upgrades desperately. I love how the media/general public winge about the venue not being up to scratch, if they really knew their stuff, they would know that barbagallo was never designed to be on par with the likes of bathurst, QR or phillip island.
It's a club level track that sees ~50 cars on race days, and a few hundred people, of course it's not designed to handle 20,000+ people for events like yesterday and the V8s (which by contract are back for the next 5 years - which means the upgrades will have to take place after that, by the looks of the plans, they would take more than 12 months to complete to those standards.) It just happens to be the biggest track in WA so it's our 'premier' motorsport venue.
Has anyone else seen the proposed track extension? It looks farking dardy! Longer straight = higher top speeds, separate drift track, new pits and facilities... Should be goooooood! (if the government gets off its ass and does something about it.)