Australia will be getting its own Festival of Speed later this year and Mark Webber will be the headline act. The event is scheduled for 28 November and will be held at Barbagallo Raceway, 50km north of Perth.
Not only will Webber be in attendance, but so will a team of Red Bull Racing mechanics and, crucially, they will be bringing an F1 car which Webber will drive at the event.
Other motorsport categories will be represented, including V8 Supercars, rallying, motorbikes, historics and more.
But it will be Webber who will draw the crowds. The Festival of Speed will be held two weeks after the Abu Dhabi Grand Prix, the final Formula One race of the year. If things go well for Mark on track between now and then it could be his first Australian appearance after being crowned F1 world champion. If so that should provide the impetus to really put this event on the Australian motorsport map.
The Australian Festival of Speed is promoted by the Australian Automobile Club and tickets are currently on sale, starting at $35 for adults and $20 for concession. You can visit the official website for more information, or read the press release after the break. Apparently this will be “The Fastest Day of Your Life.”
[via CarAdvice | Pics: Red Bull/Getty Images]
The Australian Automobile Club’s Festival of Speed
The Australian Automobile Club’s Festival of Speed has achieved an unprecedented coup for Perth motor sport fans.
The AAC Festival of Speed will be headlined by Australia’s own F1 legend, Mark Webber, in person and on the track. Webber will race the clock three times in his Red Bull Formula One car and be interviewed live, talking about the year he set the pace for the rest of the world in the planet’s most dangerous and expensive motor sport.
The AAC Festival of Speed will be a premium opportunity to indulge in motor sport action, activities and displays across a packed program of events at Barbagallo Race Way on November 28, 2010.
Mark Webber and Red Bull Formula One will be well supported by V8 Super Cars and drivers, Rally Cars, Sport Sedans, Formula Cars, Race Bikes, Street Cars and Historic Racers.
In addition to the exceptional opportunity of witnessing an Australian F1 driver at the top of his game in one of the most innovative vehicles the sport has ever seen, fanatics will see V8 Super Cars and Rally Cars on track and racing across the day. They can also see their dream cars racing in the Super Brand Challenge to determine which brand of performance vehicles is truly the fastest.
True racing devotees will be red-lining with excitement as Special Street Cars, Historic Race Cars, Electric Vehicles and Emergency Service vehicles make the Festival of Speed the most exciting and diverse celebration of motor sport Perth has ever seen.
The Australian Automobile Club’s Festival of Speed, presents Perth and our motor sport fans with a unique, premium opportunity to indulge their passion for speed and racing. Hosting Mark Webber and Red Bull Formula One and witnessing this champion pushing his F1 car through the twists and turns of Barbagallo Race Way will be a very rare event indeed.
The AAC Festival of Speed has stopped at nothing to bring together an event program worthy of supporting a driver of Mark Webber’s standing.
This event is positioned as being The Fastest Day of Your Life, and it will be.
7 replies on “Mark Webber to headline Australian Festival of Speed”
Red Bull canned the air race, surely this is just PR?
Red Bull canned the air race, surely this is just PR?
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Perth, well that won’t draw the crowd. No offence Perth, but its $35 + Airfare for the rest of us.
perths festival of speed just involves our police minister rolling out more cash cameras
@Rodrrico, it may be a fair effort for us on the East Coast of Aus to get there, but it sure beats the cost and time to get to Goodwood… And… I’m sure that it gives the good people of WA a chance to see an F1 car, which they might not be able to do as Mel might be a stretch for them… Maybe next year it could be at Malalla, the circuit ain’t much, but its closer for most 🙂
guys get a life how many bands/concerts/tours and people go to the east and we miss out ur just pissed cause you guys get them all the tme and when we get somthing good you bitch
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