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BenJTaylor

So, i have been thinking.. In the UK, Holland, New Zealand and several other countries around Europe, people race 'Stockcars' - known in the US as Nascar racing.. but Stockcars has a LOT more vehicle contact and a much lower budget than the US version, many Expats may have heard about this before.

I am looking at trying to bring the idea to VN.. i have a large group of British drivers who would happily travel across and demonstrate the sport to the local residents, IF there was enough interest. I am currently enquiring how much it would cost for the land and as to whether i would need specialist rights for this,
I would also be looking to recruit a group of people (unfortunately unpaid to start with) to help me build the cars or just adapt some road vehicles for this idea.. in the Uk it started in the 50s and has become a large sport now, with often 10,000 spectators at a race meeting.

any interest? or am i p**sing into the wind?

Wxx3

It would help if this was a car culture, but it's not.
U.K.  is one of the top car cultures in the world.

Also, people here don't have a lot of free time.

gobot

Is this idea for locals or expats? If locals, the countries that you list are rich Western countries where people have discretionary income to blow on hobbies. Car here have had 100% import duties (now decreasing). Of the relatively few cars there are, most are owned by government or business, which employees use as a perquisite.  It is rare to see young people driving. I've never seen a modified car, so you don't have that hot rod culture. You wouldn't believe how slowly cars are driven. If you were doing small displacement motorcycles, that might get participation. If it doesn't cost much.
Have you looked at richer countries like Malaysia, where they have a F1 Grand Prix, or Thailand where they are having a MotoGP next year?

BenJTaylor

The idea was mainly aimed at expats at the moment, hence posting it on Expat.
for anyone to get a vague idea the type of racing, search - brisca stockcars on google.
that is they style in the richer western countries, but the idea here could easily be started with much cheaper self built vehicles, as it was way back in 1957. The self builds could easily use motorbike engines, as some current formulas run these but alter it to have a prop shaft, like A LOT of the motorised tricycles here use!

Thanh Kim

It's good idea but u need to consider carefully. It's like goft in Vietnam. There is a big area and they have to pay much money to join the game so it's suitable for foreigners or rich people. U won't find a good place to open it in centre. Maybe in Cu Chi, Hoc Mon, Binh Chanh district. It takes 30 minutes from center.

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