So, I had the pleasure to talk to a government official last night about the homebush event.
He just spent the other weekend (paid by us tax payers) up at Townsville watching their setup to see what they can do at homebush.
He gleefully told us, when asked what he did for a crust, that he worked for the government in getting the homebush bid going, and how much more money they are making from it. Also didn't mine telling me that $30 million of the peoples money is going towards the setup and they hope to get more people to the street circuit than OP or EC.
He also is going to the A1GP at GC (also paid by us) to see what thats all about.
In my hour or so of being graced by his presence, he was gloating as much as he could. When I left, I mentioned I might run into him at homebush, when he replied "Yeah I'll be in the 250 seat box, paid to be there" or something to that effect.
Some numbers he mentioned, but I'm not sure how accurate they are (one should assume that the government would have accurate numbers though) ............
25 thousand attend OP.
they expected 80k at Townsville to break even........they got 160k+
he reckons at least 130k at Homebush.......
Just in general, you could tell that grass roots sports are stuffed in this state, and it's all about the $$$