The end of the Australian Grand Prix?
Looks like Melbourne has had enough of subsiding Formula 1
“After 14 years, residents have had more than enough,” City of Port Phillip mayor Janet Cribbes said in a statement. “Why should they have to suffer the noise and the inconvenience of a car race in a park for a race whose public price tag blew out to A$41.3 million (25 million euros) last year?’ The cost of staging the event has risen steadily each year.”
An alternative location for the Australian Grand Prix may be the Phillip Island facility whose promoters seem eager to attract F1. Unfortunately from accounts I’ve seen the track would require considerable investment and the surrounding facilities are poor for the mammoth task of housing and feeding F1 spectators.
Adelaide is always a possibility, but with them attracting hundreds of thousands of spectators to V8 racing you have to wonder whether they would care about Formula 1. Certainly the huge fees and demands from Bernie (he wants Australia to be a night race) would raise a questionmark.
2 comments June 18th, 2008
