A secret date has already been set to return Supercars back to Symmons Plains this year.
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The completion of the motorsport's season still appears to be a distinct possibility should the green light be given come August.
The admission from Motorsport Tasmania boss Donald Potter comes after the track sits idle without the sounds of revving engines on the weekend of the scheduled round 3 race.
"We were told a week or two ago there's an invisible line for about August," Potter said.
"So if everything starts to get a bit better, maybe there's half a chance towards the end of the year that we will have an event."
The onset of coronavirus on the eve of the Melbourne 400 race that just happened to coincide with the Formula 1 grand prix plans was only three weeks before the touring cars circuit was to land in Launceston.
Potter immediately knew the season was in jeopardy still days before its postponement.
"At least we had some warning," he said.
"It wasn't like the grand prix. Everyone in motorsport and everyone in events feared it.
"That same weekend of the Formula 1 in Melbourne was probaby the catalyst for us."
Timing has been everything for Symmons Plains, fortunate to avoid a financial crash.
Potter calculated stopping Sunday's Super Sprint format race would only cost thousands of dollars, but had the season started earlier and no replacement race later it could have cost like hundreds of thousands of dollars.
The upside could be that Symmons Plains may well host two events inside six months.
ELSEWHERE IN SPORT
"We have already committed to this year so the facilities are ready," Potter said.
"If they had rang next week and said the race is on in three weeks, we would be ready.
"We were also ready to go weeks ago when it was cancelled other than a couple of white lines we'd have to paint."
The postponement of the Powranna race may be a blessing in disguise.
Capital works was going on around the circuit weeks out.
"There's been a lot of progress with the site and there's still a lot to do, but we only have a certain time frame to do it," Potter said.
"So we had to make sure we had a facility to run for spectators and some safety stuff.
"It won't matter if we come back later in the year that we're still working towards."
Potter quickly ruled out any notion of one of the championship's most popular races on the calendar going ahead without fans.
That would seem improbable under strict quarantine rules requiring drivers and teams to isolate for 14 days travelling between states.
"Our sport is there for the spectators," Potter said.
"The drivers don't want to be racing with nobody watching them.
"They are there to please the crowd and if you are best driver and there is no applause, it's very lacklustre."
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