The technical room is coming!

Machine-translated from Faroese and not yet reviewed. Read the original.

Good things take time. But at long last the long-awaited and much-requested technical room at Tórsbreyt is being built. Since Tórsbreyt was opened to the public in October 2008, many competitions have been held there, and with every competition the need for a technical room has become more and more obvious and pressing. This came to a head on the last competition day last year, when the final round of the Grand Prix was on the programme. The expensive timing equipment was blown over by a gust of wind and crashed onto the concrete. For the rest of that day the old stopwatches had to be brought back into use.

Construction is under way and it looks exciting

Fortunately, the damage to the equipment was no worse than a lens needing to be replaced. But that incident, along with cramped conditions in the toilet, blowing and wet paper, a tangle of cables, wind-buffeted microphones and half-grumpy organisers, will now be a thing of the past.

Conditions in the new technical room will be good. Organising competitions is going to be quite enjoyable. There will be water for coffee, electricity for everything and heat to keep warm. It will also be dry, and the papers will stay where they are put. The organisers will have a good view, giving them a better overview of everything that happens on and around the track. It will also be much quicker to set up the equipment and take it down again.

The construction company KAPPAR is carrying out the building work, and Tórshavn Municipality is funding it. So now all that’s left is to look forward to the coming competition season….. and much more besides!