{"id":160775,"date":"2025-09-22T10:04:14","date_gmt":"2025-09-22T10:04:14","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/160775\/"},"modified":"2025-09-22T10:04:14","modified_gmt":"2025-09-22T10:04:14","slug":"supercars-still-overcoming-gold-coast-beach-erosion","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/160775\/","title":{"rendered":"Supercars still overcoming Gold Coast beach erosion"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>\u201cENGINEERING\u201d efforts are still being required to overcome severe beach erosion as preparations for the Boost Mobile Gold Coast 500 ramp up.<\/p>\n<p>Week two of the Surfers Paradise track build is now underway, ahead of the October 24-26 event.<\/p>\n<p>Beach erosion caused by Tropical Cyclone Alfred earlier this year forced the cancellation of the 2025 Pacific Airshow that had been scheduled for August.<\/p>\n<p>Supercars all along has said its event will be unaffected, a position which it maintains \u2013 even if there are some hurdles to navigate.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cA little bit of erosion on beaches around some of the grandstands but it\u2019s all on track,\u201d said Supercars CEO James Warburton.<\/p>\n<p>Asked by V8 Sleuth if there\u2019s any work still to be done in that space, Warburton responded: \u201cA fair bit of engineering, but again all achievable.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIt\u2019s just something we have got to be very mindful of when we put it together.\u201d<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/superstore.v8sleuth.com.au\/products\/1-18-scale-2025-the-bend-500-winner-38-ford-mustang-b-kostecki-hazelwood-model-pre-order?utm_source=SRBuyButton&amp;utm_medium=website\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/09\/ACD18F25W-WithPitboard_f264e375-6029-4b70-aaf2-b90ffe9626ac_1024x1024.jpg\"\/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Acting Mayor Mark Hammel added: \u201cCity of Gold Coast and Supercars continue to work really closely to make sure that any issues caused by Cyclone Alfred with the beaches where the grandstand goes can be overcome.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI share the thoughts that it\u2019s just some additional engineering work.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThose grandstands will be in place to make sure as many spectators as possible have got those prime positions on that iconic piece of beach.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>The Gold Coast 500 will represent the opening leg of Supercars\u2019 inaugural finals series.<\/p>\n<p>Before then will be the Repco Bathurst 1000 on October 9-12.<\/p>\n<p>The Undercut \u2013 Unpacking The Bend &amp; Bringing on The Mountain<\/p>\n<p>V8 Sleuth&#8217;s take on the world of Supercars from The Bend &amp; Bathurst, with thanks to Shell OTR!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"\u201cENGINEERING\u201d efforts are still being required to overcome severe beach erosion as preparations for the Boost Mobile Gold&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":160776,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[572],"tags":[64,63,806,805,803,804,85],"class_list":{"0":"post-160775","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-motosport","8":"tag-au","9":"tag-australia","10":"tag-motor","11":"tag-motor-sports","12":"tag-motosport","13":"tag-motosports","14":"tag-sports"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/160775","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=160775"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/160775\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/160776"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=160775"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=160775"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=160775"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}