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Local government wants to scrap Melbourne Grand Prix

Local government wants to scrap Melbourne Grand Prix

18 June 2008

The local government council which hosts the Formula 1 race in Melbourne has said it has had enough of the three-day event and it has now requested the Victorian state government to scrap the event, rather than extending its contract until the end of 2015.

"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 (S$53.2 million) last year?' The cost of staging the event has risen steadily each year."



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