Powered sites and shower blocks are on the agenda to allow participants and spectators to stay at the raceway for multi-day events – such as Tasmania’s V8 Supercars round.

Motorsports Tasmania general manager Donald Potter said there are still safety adjustments to be made to the track beforehand, but camping would be a reality soon.

Symmons Plains has undergone $1.5 million in spectator and driver safety upgrades required by V8 Supercars and the FIA.

Gravel run-offs, concrete barriers and a debris fence have been installed along with other changes.

“The tyre barriers remaining still have to be redone and relined and there is another debris fence from the bridge to the hairpin that needs to be done by 2017,” Potter said.

“Camping is an aim for 2017 V8s … we have a national bike meeting in November so hopefully we can get it done by September or October.

“What we need to do is look at ways to improve it and change it from being a farmyard.

“The V8s are one of many customers but we need to be able to offer the same quality we offer the V8s to other customers.”

He said allowing people to camp for several nights could boost crowd numbers, which have averaged between 50,000 and 60,000 for the V8 Supercars, which is locked in at the Northern Midlands site to 2019.

Potter said there is unlikely to be any movement on bantered plans to extend Symmons Plains, as any alterations would impact its uniqueness.

“We actually own a property at the end of the hairpin to actually do that if we needed to and the V8s don’t actually require it.

“We have got the slowest and fastest corner in the country – two iconic corners with the sleeper being classed as a corner – so if we make any changes it is going to ruin what we’ve got.”

This year’s three-day event kicks off on Friday.