30 August

The Bathurst 1000 will never be a river of gold for Bathurst Council because it’s not a Council event. Council owns the track, not the event. It gets a track hire fee, but not some enormous cut of the race revenue, which is a huge event paid for and organised by V8 Supercars. Venue owners never, for any event, get huge proportions of the revenue because they’re not organising nor funding the main event. Why is this basic fact so difficult for some to understand. It’s a big earner for Bathurst, the town, with all the visitors. Not for the Council. That’s why Council does it.