Newcastle council may be voting again to bring Supercars back, but the brutal truth is this: the engines won’t roar back in the Hunter — not in Newcastle, not in Cessnock — because the basic foundations of the event no longer exist. You can pass a resolution, issue a press release, or tweet all you want, but without the infrastructure or investment, there is simply no Supercars event to bring back. Here’s the context most people don’t see in council chambers: Newcastle once hosted the prestigious Newcastle 500 on the streets around Nobbys Beach — a temporary street circuit that ran...