Tony Zappia (Makin, Australian Labor Party) Share this | Link to this | Hansard source

The four-day VALO Adelaide 500 supercar event begins this Thursday, 1 December, after a nearly two-year absence of supercar racing in Adelaide, suspended not just because of COVID but also because the last Liberal state government in South Australia turned its back on the event and, even worse, had a fire sale of all the necessary infrastructure that the state government needed to host the race. The VALO Adelaide 500 is the largest domestic motorsport event in Australia.

The South Australian Labor leader and now the South Australian Premier, Peter Malinauskas, made returning the race to Adelaide a major election issue earlier this year and received overwhelming public support for the race. South Australian Labor has a longstanding record of supporting motor racing in South Australia, first by bringing the Formula One to Australia in 1985, and then with the Adelaide 500, which has been going for almost two decades. I congratulate the South Australian Premier on delivering on his election commitment and getting the race back on track, which I know will bring so much excitement and so many visitors to Adelaide, with more than 250,000 people expected to attend the Supercars season finale. I have no doubt that all of those who attend will not be disappointed.