Plans to resume racing at Auckland's Waikaraka Park speedway remain in turmoil, despite the arrival of temporary seating after a council decision to ban public use of its grandstand.
Auckland Council says all temporary facilities it has started moving to the park beside Neilson St in Onehunga, including portable toilets and about 700 seats, will be in place by Thursday.
That follows what the Auckland Stock and Saloon Car Club says was a last-minute council decision to prohibit public use of the 73-year-old grandstand, the upper part of which held up to 2500 seats, after seismic experts said it posed a "significant risk" unless walls and supports were strengthened.
But club president Frank Irvine says the temporary facility will not be enough to allow a start to the speedway season, which has already been delayed by two weekends, and the council needs to provide more seats.
Palmerston North-based speedway promoter Bruce Robertson had hoped to run the Auckland leg of a national super-saloon car racing series at Waikaraka Park on November 14, as notified on the club's website.
