Hampton Downs Motorsport Park & Event Centre

Hampton Downs Motorsport Park & Event Centre sits at 20 Hampton Downs Road, Te Kauwhata, in the northern Waikato between Auckland and Hamilton. Built around a motorsport circuit, it combines conventional conference rooms with on-track experiences, which makes it a natural fit for incentives, team-building days, dealer and product launches, client hospitality and conferences that want a point of difference. It is part of the same group as Highlands, Taupo Motorsport Park and Game Over.

Conference suites (pit lane)

Nine suites sit above the pit garages, looking out over pit lane and the main national circuit through double-glazed floor-to-ceiling windows on two sides. All are neutrally finished with natural light, and they work as a plenary-plus-breakouts cluster:

• Monza & Balcony — 200 m²; 100 theatre, 50 banquet, 200 standing
• Nürburgring, Le Mans, Bathurst, Silverstone — 100 m² each; 100 theatre, 50 banquet, 150 standing
• Spa-Francorchamps, Monaco — 75 m² each; 70 theatre, 40 banquet, 125 standing
• GT Lounge — 280 m² excluding balcony; 200 banquet, 350 standing
• Podium Lounge — 190 m²

Suite hire is exclusive and available by half or full day, and includes Wi-Fi, round tables and chairs, linen, pads and pens, water, free car parking and a dedicated functions coordinator. Clients are welcome to dress and furnish a suite to their own brief. A virtual tour of the facility is published on the venue's website.

The Pavilion

The Pavilion, at the edge of Turn 1, is the largest space at 600 m², with a built-in bar and stage suited to gala dinners, awards ceremonies, keynote sessions, car launches and exhibitions. It is listed at 220 for a banquet on rounds; the venue quotes differing figures for standing and seated capacity across its own pages, so confirm the number for your layout when enquiring.

Catering and add-ons

Catering is handled on site by Flying Trestles, alongside the venue café, covering everything from informal finger food to four-course dining; external caterers are not permitted. Accommodation is not on site, but the team can point delegates to hotels and motels nearby.

The differentiator is the activity programme: go-karts, V8 muscle car drives, the wet skid pan, track cruises, the MX5 Challenge and defensive-driving style sessions can be bolted onto a meeting. Track activity is discussed at enquiry stage so noise can be managed around a conference programme.

Best suited to conferences and workshops of roughly 10 to 200 delegates in the suites, scaling to several hundred in the Pavilion for dinners, launches and exhibitions.