THE State Government insists South Australia remains the country’s home of motorsport — but has no dream to reclaim the Formula 1 Grand Prix from Melbourne, saying “we have moved on”.
Victoria last month secured a three-year extension to stage the Australian Grand Prix, locking it in at Albert Park until 2023. The negotiation defied a brazen bid by NSW to secure its own three-year deal tipped to cost $180 million to steal the event from Melbourne after 2020.
But car enthusiast and state minister Martin Hamilton-Smith, representing Tourism Minister Leon Bignell, said at yesterday’s launch of the Adelaide Motorsport Festival starting on Friday that South Australia’s Formula 1 involvement was in the past.
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