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| Mike Fogg, with in the background a photo of Roy Hesketh (left) |
Fogg, a former champion motorcycle racer and pioneer of vehicle
maintenance leases in South Africa, yesterday told The
Witness the development plans, which had first been touted “just in time
for the world recession” in 2008, were now firmly back on track. “The economy
has recovered significantly,” said Fogg, adding the time was now ripe to create
a venue where vehicles could be not just showed, but experienced.
“We feel it is time to start selling vehicles differently, not just
showing a car, but selling the lifestyle of the car in a setting for which it
was designed,” he said.
Fogg said the Hesketh track has recently seen R300 000 spent on it
to fix cracks and built a clubhouse, but the next phase aimed to establish a
motoring venue with a skidpan, a 4x4 track, display areas, a museum, and plots
for private homes overlooking the track. These will sell from R3 million.
Fogg said there will still not be any racing at the Hesketh track,
as he had promised the council when he bought the track. “We have a 96 decibel
limit, which is as loud as a motorbike at full bore. We strictly monitor all
events and have in the past ten years only had to remove three vehicles for
being too loud.”
However, one day a year the track can host an event with no sound
restrictions, and Fogg says he hopes to use this day to create in KZN a national
event similar to the UK’s famous Goodwood Festival of Speed. “We will call our’s
a Festival of Wheels,” Fogg said.
