Organisers are concerned that fans might miss out on a grandstand seat if they rely on walk-up traffic for this week’s ITM400 V8 Supercar round in Hamilton.
There’s been an upsurge in ticket sales over the past two weeks for the sole New Zealand round of the V8 Supercar Championship starting on Friday.
This year organisers have built grandstands to meet demand and while they have added additional grandstand seating, there are now less than 3000 grandstand seats available.
“We have grandstand seating available at the Stadium and Hinemoa grandstands especially right now, but less than 3000 in total remaining,” Event Director Stephen Vuleta said.
“That might mean that by the weekend, if a fan walks up looking for a grandstand seat then they might well be out of luck.
“This is not like a stadium. We have to build everything from scratch and this time we have built to sales demand.
“We are pleased with the significantly increased levels of sales in the last two weeks in particular but I would recommend that fans should get in and buy them now if they want to ensure they can get into the grandstands and not be disappointed.
“There will be general admission definitely available but already there are no more of our new flexipass grandstand seating available which has proved really popular.”
Mr Vuleta said plans were going well with the first of two airfreight consignments of the race cars arriving in Hamilton today and the rest arriving tomorrow.
Some drivers have already arrived with most of the teams coming in over the next two days.
There is a public show at Hamilton’s Garden Place on Thursday from 4pm to 7pm featuring local bands, a display by the Red Bull X Fighters freestyle motocross and also the official driver signing sessions from 4.30pm.
