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Any updates of it happening in Australia?

Its coming to Oz in October 2009 but get your wallet out to enter :

CANNONBALL AUSTRALIA is bringing this unique driving experience to the streets of Australia where up to 100 cars will enjoy breathtaking, spectacular routes.

One hundred drivers and their co-drivers will depart from the originating city and travel with stops at checkpoints and an event track along the way.CANNONBALL AUSTRALIA will unite car enthusiasts from around the world in the biggest moving car rally in Australia. The number of entries will be strictly held to an exclusive one hundred drivers and their co-drivers, who will be pushing everything from Fast Fords, exotic Ferraris and Lamborghinis to muscle and high horsepower customized imports and more!

The object of the event is to maintain an average national speed limit over the entire route, stopping overnight in various cities. The cars will have to negotiate through different checkpoints along the routes and complete a track day to get to the final destination. The event will conclude with a black tie celebration for participants and guests where the winner of the event will be named. The event is open to all licensed drivers over the age of 21 for an entry fee of $12,000 dollars.

The entry fee covers all accommodations, event books, breakfasts, evening dinners, parties, award ceremony and festivities.

Visit the web page http://www.cannonballaus.com for more information on how to enter - and you can put any questions you may have to the organiser right here on our forum - as the event is listed in the state event sections, as a topic for discussion

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Just checked the price of The Great American Run: "PRICE

The event is open to all licensed drivers over the age of 18. The entry fee is $5,995 to include 1 car and 2 drivers ($5500 for previous entrants or bookings paid in full byDec 1, 2008)"

And in Aus it costs 10k? Nearly the same amount of money? hmmmm.....

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The proposed event schedule is as follows.

We will be leaving from the GOLD COAST and returning to BRISBANE.

Saturday, Oct. 10, 2009 – arrive at starting point hotel (check in will be at 2:00pm), welcome dinner starts at 6:00 pm (meet the CA crew and other drivers) until 11:00pm.

Sunday, Oct. 11, 2009 – start of the road event (first car leaves at 6:00am)

Monday, Oct. 12, 2009 – TRACK DAY

Tuesday, Oct. 13, 2009 – Drive day

Wednesday, Oct. 14, 2009 – Drive day wrap up and Awards Banquet!

sounds pretty shitty to me, its either a drive down to sydney then back up to bris, or up to the top of aus and then back down via NT or something....

ill keep my 12g to myself thanks

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In all honestly though. Considering the stated goal "maintain speed limit", besides the high end luxury cars that attend. What is the difference between organising somthing at a slightly smaller level in the sence of a long distance cruise among diff car clubs. If you could find enough interested clubs from say Victoria. Theres no reason you couldnt get 50 cars from all genres doing a road trip from say Melb to Qld through to SA then back to melb. Do it over the space of 1 week. Have all accomodation pre booked. If people decide to speed then they get pulled over and are up the creek. Just like in the $12,000 version. Organising a "less known" version would probably only end of costing $2k-3k including fuel, accomo etc depending on night time expenditure/partying.

Just my thought. and in answer to this. Yes i would also love to do this as well before i die. Preferably in some form of oldschool sports car from the 70's as compared to a late model import purely for the entertainment factor. A Black Datsun 260z with a V8 conversion and racing seats comes to mind. Also be fun to get cars like in the movies (i.e limos, ambos).

One question left. Who is capable of organising such a thing? ;)

Luke

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sounds like you have it under control.....i guess the first thing to do would be to find avalabillity of tracks, then book everything around that. EC, Wakefield, something in Melbourne maybe.

In all honestly though. Considering the stated goal "maintain speed limit", besides the high end luxury cars that attend. What is the difference between organising somthing at a slightly smaller level in the sence of a long distance cruise among diff car clubs. If you could find enough interested clubs from say Victoria. Theres no reason you couldnt get 50 cars from all genres doing a road trip from say Melb to Qld through to SA then back to melb. Do it over the space of 1 week. Have all accomodation pre booked. If people decide to speed then they get pulled over and are up the creek. Just like in the $12,000 version. Organising a "less known" version would probably only end of costing $2k-3k including fuel, accomo etc depending on night time expenditure/partying.

Just my thought. and in answer to this. Yes i would also love to do this as well before i die. Preferably in some form of oldschool sports car from the 70's as compared to a late model import purely for the entertainment factor. A Black Datsun 260z with a V8 conversion and racing seats comes to mind. Also be fun to get cars like in the movies (i.e limos, ambos).

One question left. Who is capable of organising such a thing? :D

Luke

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