We are booked in the McRae standQuote:
Originally Posted by MSP AU
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We are booked in the McRae standQuote:
Originally Posted by MSP AU
Sorry to say but for a Country that is in the **** right now, holding a great rally over the weekend and still manage to pull in the people with FREE access to stages day and night, FREE entry to the service areas as well as printing 30,000 copies of the Rally Program and giving them out for FREE - Greece did a great job!!! Rally Australia is a joke charging over AU$100 for a full package ticket plus paying, guessing over $12 for a Program and not having as a country any financial issues be fair to Greece who are in a crisis! I would rather pay for things in Greece then in Aust. It's pathetic. It's was fine in NZ a few years ago... $75 for Gold Passes per person but ended up getting team passes... But still. Shame on Rally Australia. I find it silly.
Greece looks like an awesome rally from what I have seen and read. Just on the pricing, isn't the Greece way how you end up in so much debt by not covering costs? lol. The Australian rally defiently has to attempt to cover costs not that it will because its sponsored by events NSW which is the NSW government. By being so high you think they might pirce some people out of the market, they would rather go watch V8's or something
Don't start me - RallyGB is the same. The people involved think the WRC is a bigger sport than it actually is. It's a minority sport - charge minority sport prices!!Quote:
Originally Posted by GigiGalliNo1
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Agree. They would study a 40€ package: Pass+Spectators areas on SS+Service park. Would be fine, isn't it?Quote:
Originally Posted by AndyRAC
Yes, Australia is EXPENSIVE for most things! Rallying is tiny here, so spectator passes are always going to come at a premium. I have booked a helicopter for the Saturday only, and will be doing my best to offer a few options to fly into the best locations. $8K plus makes the $175 enthusiast pass cheap in comparison. But with only one chance to see WRC in my area, I'm not leaving anything to chance. I was locked into stage for a full day in 2009, only to see three cars all day!
Anyone interested in this option, please send me a PM.
Rally Australia has added some options to ticketing, now you can purchase a super pass/enthusiast pass and add the Talarm Hall and Plum Pudding spectator points to your ticket. I'm off to take the photos of the spectator points tomorrow, two days on the course to complete it. Let me know if anyone is interested in seeing an particular points of interest? I plan to put together a collection of images from each point, and cover the super special stage also. https://bitly.com/RA_2011_Tickets
prices at all sporting events these days seem to be on the rise, glad that i'm on the scutineering team again this year.
nice to be able to get up close and personal with the cars at post event sealing etc.
we also have to enter the stages at non speccy points to observe compliance with the rules ,nice perk.
am looking forward to it
so if any of you forum guys are coming to the event ,come and say hi as i will be in the service park running the observers while the cars are in.
cheers
pete
I will start a new thread, as I have plenty of information to share now that the spectator diagrams and time table has been published. A new version of rally guide went online today, which contains full running schedule with times and distances. It can be found in this document http://bit.ly/RA_Supplementary_Regulations_2011
After driving all of the stages once again, the roads are in top condition and any damage to the road surface is under repair or has been recently repaired. Some of the best rally roads are being graded and bought up to even higher standard which is good to see. I have photos of all spectator areas to share, but the clearing of low vegetation still hasn't taken place.
The enthusiast locations have been fairly restricted and I can no longer recommend them, with the exception of the PLUM PUDDING enthusiast location. The GLENREAGH and several of the general ticketed areas are actually great viewing.