Calder Park Newsletter Friday 15th April 2005 To all legal off-street racers; competitors; fans and other interested parties. DRAG READ-OUT NOW COMPLETE Drag read-outs are almost completed and working very will with the last few adjustments being fixed toady for tonight�s event. NEW START TIME FROM NEXT FRIDAY APRIL 22ND Friday April 22nd 2005 the gates will open 1 hour earlier at 4pm with racing starting at 5pm. We are able to race if there is a need until 10.30pm pr 11pm. The finishing time will depend on the number of entries and will be a Calder park management decision on the night. The early start is part of our plan for a winter series to be announced soon. SMALL PRICE INCREASE We advise of a increase of $3- to the current spectator entry fee of $17- which has been unchanged for many years, the new spectator cost will be $20-. PLANS FOR A BETTER RETURN ROAD Calder park management is planning to improve the drag return road and the system and give you the opportunity to return to the start line via the race track. In the long run this will give you more runs per night. We are planning to have a time shed on the back straight to get your time slip if you use this return. There will be more on this later, expect changes to start next Friday night. WEBSITE UPDATE www.calderparkmotorsport.com.au (http://www.calderparkmotorsport.com.au) The Calder Park website has been substantially up-dated with amazing results growing to 336,045 hits in March from a very low base of 20,000 in the later months of last year. We find the success of our website very interesting and exciting particularly as the most busy days for our site are Friday each week with as many as 29,000 hits on a Friday. We propose some research to establish what role legal off-street drag racing has on our website and I hope you will all help us with this research. For competitors with access to the internet, you can now print an entry form to complete and bring with you on Friday nights. This will make entry on the day simpler and hopefully faster. For entry in the future you will be able to enter and pay on-line and save time on the night at the gate. Click Here To Download An Entry Form (http://motorsport.com.au/Drag%20Entry%20Form.pdf) TEST OF SUPER VIDEO SCREEN Next Friday you may see a temporary large video screen facing the grandstand. This is part of our plan to buy a 40 square meter screen to cover our street racing from the start line to the finish line, we believe this will provide a great viewing experience of drag racing for spectators. SECURITY CAR PARKING With the theft of 7 cars from the car park at WSID, we are focusing on this area at Calder Park. While our security parking is okay, we plan to make it more secure with more lighting, more dedicated security and a card system where you must have your part of the ticket to get your car out of the car park. Your�s faithfully Calder Park Management

security car parking sounds good

Calder park management is planning to improve the drag return road... So no more pot holes!!! :S

thats dog balls 20 bux they can go suck me off

yeah good to see they are finally goin to spend some money out there, I was talking to a local drag racer and he said ANDRA are goin to purchase Calder Park from Bob Jane and he also said the track will be redone to the national standard for Top Fuelrs etc, anyone else heard of this happening???

yeah 20bux is high for acouple of hrs...u can spend all day at the nats for 40... but the improvments seem better.. so thats 30bux if u wanna watch and park ur car safely....

But wayne (SLYLS1) does have a list if your spectating and you get in cheaper, also if ur racing or burnouts its cheaper.

This is all a step in the right direction, maybe except for the entry fee increase. I mean $17 is a lot to spectate i say. It's a catch 22. You get more ppl racing you get more spectators. But you up the entry fee you get less spectators... Yeah that discount list is a good thing.

$17 for spectating? hmm they will need more titties for that price.. Hopefully they can still do some forum deals..

i like the sound of security parking, but $20 for watchin is a little pricey. aslwell, as long as we still get our forum discount Some original photos have not been recovered yet.

$20 to watch!!!! Some original photos have not been recovered yet.

i wonder if our forum special will still be $10.....it prob will go up too

About time they started to spend some money there. That return road has been wrecked for years!!

Quote: Originally Posted by quikvl i wonder if our forum special will still be $10.....it prob will go up too guys we have been very luck for so long getting the forum discount, at this stage it looks like our discount will stay but will be uped to $15.00 to spectate Management & The Bean Counters had a meeting today & a decission will be made tomorrow, as soon as i know i will post it up remember this: if we want the upgrades its upto us to show our support to those that support us, now lets get out & have some LEGAL fun on the track regards rod

Rod, constructive input would be to provide more incentive for ppl to race there machines. Which is what you are doing with the better return road and time boards. And perhaps provide more incentives for ppl to race, ie competitions, prize money, trophies things like that. This will bring more ppl to race and more of there mates to spectate and more spectators in general to see some good racing. By upping the entry fee this will turn many spectators off, and this will be the rise and fall of calder income IMO. Just food for thought. $17 is high enough, and if you increased your attendance by 2000 ppl per meet with more ppl racing and some very quick cars attending because of better track conditions you do the math??? Cheers. Just trying to help.

Quote: Originally Posted by VLRB20DET yeah good to see they are finally goin to spend some money out there, I was talking to a local drag racer and he said ANDRA are goin to purchase Calder Park from Bob Jane and he also said the track will be redone to the national standard for Top Fuelrs etc, anyone else heard of this happening??? yeah and if that happens there will be alot less quick street cars racing as it will be a prick to get through the pits....ANDRA rules are a little tighter and alot more picky than they are now...

Its $3 you tight c unts... Id prefer to pay the $3 and be able to see what times the bloody cars run instead of looking at a big blurr and being able to afford a couple of dimmys. Great to see they are improving the joint, we need to get the nationals back there!

exactly wellsy, i dont see what $3 matters..