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Originally Posted by wnut
Tickets are not exactly cheap: https://tickets.formula1.com/en/3159...CAAEgLaQfD_BwE
and the event will cost the Victorian tax payers in excess of $80 million dollars for a temporary circuit and no benefit whatsoever to local racing. Imagine the benefit of $80 million dollars a year spent on the local racing fraternity.
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What would the benefit be to the citizens of Australia?
As in, to showcase what, to how many eyeballs, for the $$$? What "local" racing has an international audience in hope of improving the local economy (aka tourism and corporate investment)?
Formula One provides this opportunity for the nation as a whole, local racing does not.