24 Beers? - Never Been to Talladega Has He?
Say what you will about NASCAR, but Australian auto racing fans seem to have as much fun, if not more.
Take, for instance, next month’s Bathurst 1000, an annual weeklong event at Mount Panorama in New South Wales that draws upward of 30,000 fans who camp out around the race circuit each year.
Police are clamping down, however, on the amount of alcohol those fans can take into the area and have set up checkpoints to make sure everyone complies.
The limits?
Each fan can take in 24 cans of full-strength beer or 36 cans of light beer per day, or 24 cans of mixed drinks or one cask of wine per day, with no combinations allowed.
“Anyone who needs to drink more than 24 cans of beer in a day to have a good time is not welcome,” said a police official.
As I said, he’s never been to the infield at Talladega. On the other hand there’s something to be said about laying off liquor of the malt & barley kind. Objects don’t always appear as they are.
Oh… there was a race in Richmond Sunday.
And Jimmie Johnson staked his claim where there was once, as the “pundits” told it, only a Busch and an Edwards. I learned my lesson last year when he dropped 130 some points out during the Chase last year and I said he was finis.
Look where it got me.
Pondering… will NASCAR’s PC Police lower the boom on Dale Jr. for his string of expletives during the later laps?
How do they plan to enforce this? What a nightmare - waiting hours just to get into the track. Great PR work there.
Sydney Morning Herald
“These restrictions are very generous,” Chief Superintendent Steve Cullen said in a statement today. “Anyone who needs to drink more than 24 cans of beer in a day to have a good time is not welcome. “This is a sporting event unlike any other with 30,000 people living in campsites around the Mt Panorama circuit for up to a week prior to the actual race.
They did this last year 7 it’s the best thing that ever happened for the race. The moron element that over runs the campsite 7 the top of the mountain wreck it for the majority. The best viewing spots along the top of the mountain are taken by these idiots & you can’t really take your wife & kids up there. A traditional stunt is to dynamite the toilet, really great for the girls.
I have no sympathy for the morons who turn up three days in advance & basically take over the top section of the mountain. Last year proved there was no shortage of race fans to fill the empty spaces.
Further, my tax dollars should not be funding 750 cops & a water cannon! Because some F###wits use the event a week long boozer?
The crowd numbers will not vary as more people will take their families. I like a beer as much as the next guy but this is not too high a price for a seat up on Skyline with your girlfreind.