A dirt speedway will be built in Adelaide’s east parklands, with sprint cars coming to the city as part of this years Adelaide 500. But, while organisers are talking up the event, not everyone is happy about it. The Adelaide City Council says it was not consulted, and the greens are pushing for laws that would stop motor sports from getting control of parklands.
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00:00 Speed cars are coming to the Adelaide 500 for the first time in the event's 25 year
00:07 history.
00:10 I think we've actually surprised a few people with having the sprint cars coming into the
00:13 city. I don't think anyone expected that that is something we would do because it's not
00:18 naturally a sprint car speedway circuit at our event so we're creating that especially
00:22 for the event.
00:23 To create that speedway, three and a half thousand square metres of dirt will be brought
00:28 into the parklands.
00:30 We'll bring in a heap of dirt and then we'll take it out again.
00:32 Adelaide City Council is happy with that.
00:35 We've got a long history of making sure we always leave the parklands in a better state
00:38 than what we've found them and this will be no different.
00:41 Documents presented to the Parklands Authority show an extra 63,000 square metres of parklands
00:47 will be needed for this year's Adelaide 500, plus an extra week to set up and dismantle
00:53 the infrastructure. The extra space will extend the event further into Rymill Park.
00:58 Only last week they came to us and talked about wanting nearly 10% more land, having
01:04 it used for an extra week and when we asked them why, they said they couldn't tell us
01:10 and frankly that's pretty disrespectful.
01:12 The LORD MAYOR doesn't like the Adelaide 500 but the people of South Australia do.
01:18 The Greens are also critical of plans to restrict community access to a larger area of the parklands
01:24 and want to limit powers given to the Motorsport Board.
01:27 The Motorsports Board should not get a free ride when it comes to the appropriate council
01:32 and parliamentary processes of using our parklands.
01:36 The Premier says the temporary speedway will be built here in the eastern parklands on
01:40 the CBC School Oval with the school support. The speedcars will run on Thursday and Friday
01:46 nights and will be subject to the same noise constraints as the event's concerts.
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