Phillip Island owner dismisses golf course rumours, confirms iconic MotoGP track will remain
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11:30, 04 Jul
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Andrew McLarneyMotoGP Reporter
Andrew McLarney is a MotoGP reporter for GPBlog. With four years experience as a professional writer across the sports and video game industries, his experience as a K1 Premier League competitor evolved into a fascination with all forms of combat sport and eventually motorsport — with MotoGP becoming his primary focus. On top of that he is also an avid follower of MXGP and AMA Supercross as well as F1 and GT racing.
After recent rumours that the legendary Phillip Island Circuit in Australia could be converted into a golf course in future, the circuit's owner Andrew Fox has spoken publicly to denounce the claims and assure the racing community that the iconic track will not be sold or demolished.
Earlier in the week, GP Blog reported on the open letter published by Bob Barnard, the circuit designer for Phillip Island among other legendary venues, which claimed there was a possibility of the iconic track being converted in a golf course one day.
The circuit is one of the most beloved locations on the entire MotoGP calendar and is considered the crowning jewel of the championship by the majority of fans and riders alike. However, that doesn't matter to Liberty Media, whose first action since assuming majority control of the sport at the start of the year was to axe it from the calendar in favour of a yet-to-be-built Adelaide street circuit.
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Following that, it was also announced that the track would be removed from the WSBK calendar, leaving the Island without its two premier motorsport events of the year and with a highly uncertain future.
Now, the Fox family have denied the claims that the area could be turned into a golf course:
“The track is definitely not for sale, and we have no interest in building a golf course on our land at Phillip Island," said Fox, "Nor is it on the market. It never has been. The land will definitely remain a racetrack. mLet me make that very, very clear on behalf of the Fox family."
“In relation to talk of a golf course, the last time that was proposed [on land adjacent to the track], the council voted against it. So why would the Fox family waste their time again, especially at the expense of destroying the track?”
The news will be extremely welcome among MotoGP fans, particularly those in Australia, since it means there is still a very slim possibility of the circuit's return one day in the future - especially if the Adelaide experiment proves as disastrous as many are predicting it to be.
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