Clipsal 500

Clipsal 500 V8supercars Adelaide.
What an event for all the revheads, enthusiasts, racing car addicts, gridgirls, women, men and familys.
Adelaide really put a fantastic weekend. There is no fuss and I always feel relaxed when I come here for the V8supercars. I was able to get a rock star parking spot for the car. My sister Deb and son Rory appreciate the closeness of the parking spot today.
If your a fan of excitement, noise and fast cars of all categories this is the place for you.
Adelaide is a relaxed place to be. It has a good variety of restaurants and coffee houses and pubs. With a short trip to the hills for scones with jam and fresh cream it definitely has lot to offer. Yes it is also the place that has many revheads and Bogans. God knows W.A.has its fair share of them too.
Clipsal 500 V8supercars Adelaide. Great four day weekend, even though I was only here three. With concerts on Friday through to Sunday, Cold Chisel playing the Finale. The excitement in my blood and the extreme noise in my ears. V8supercars yeah yeah.

I hate what this race does to this town.
We see a massive increase in bogan idiots in Holden/​Ford merchandise walking the streets pissed off VB.
Also all access to the Eastern suburbs is stunted. Having lived in the Eastern suburbs for the last three years, I’ve hated the effects that the Clipsal always brings with it.
Slow traffic and morons.

Hahaha, oh The Clipsal brings back memories when I my parents took me as a kid and the noise of the cars was so overwhelming I started crying and they had to take me out of the arena. Funnily enough, the same thing happened when they took me to see Jurrasic Park. I was 4. Dinosaurs are shit scary when you’re 4.
Now, I hate The Clipsal because it makes me late for work. Britannia Roundabout is bad enough on a normal morning, but when they close it off for ages I just resent morning shifts. What should be a 10 minute trip turns into 45 minutes. Damn you Clipsal!
I think everyone has pretty much covered the clientele description — boozy, loudmouthed, rude, seedy.
I don’t know if we should get rid of it entirely though, I mean, it’s Adelaide — take what you can. If anything it livens up that part of the city for a short period of time, I guess. I don’t know. It’s okay I think, as long as I don’t have to come within 20 meters of it. I’m just glad some people are enjoying themselves.

I am one hundred percent on board with Elissa on the ‘eff you Clipsal and all that you stand for’ wagon. There we are every year having this fantastic festival season with people in the city all night, catching shows and live music, and Adelaide has this great summer festival vibe… and then Clipsal comes and takes a big dump on our fair city.
When I worked in accommodation Clipsal was my most dreaded week of the year: the hotel would be filled with pissed men who had no regard for the people around them because they were just visiting and frankly, this event only encourages them to act irresponsibly. The promotions are seedy, the patrons are seedy, the grid girls are seedy, the whole thing in seedy. I wish Melbourne would take this gross misadventure back so we could all enjoy the festival season without the requisite dust cloud that is Clipsal.

If you don’t know what Clipsal 500 is, you must be living under a rock. A big, sound-​proof rock. Just in case that’s you — it is a really, really big car race that takes place on the edge of Adelaide’s CBD annually. It is Australia’s largest domestic motor sport event, according to the website, and features V8 motor car racing around a track at record speeds, and a lot of alcohol consumption. I’ve been on every side of the track — I’ve lived very close to it, I’ve worked above it, I’ve attended the concerts after the race. It’s a huge money spinner for the state, and while I find it somewhat baffling as an event, I don’t totally resent its existence. Although when I lived in the city, I wished they’d at least do it somewhere further away… Not only was the noise unbelievable, the patrons of the event were prone to extreme intoxication and inappropriate urination practices.
That said, there is something exciting about really fast cars.

So many rev heads and cheap floozy’s fornicating in the back of V8 Utes. What an event, taking the Holden and Ford battle to the race track in lil ol’ Adelaide. Mullets everywhere, fake tan and bleached blonde hair extensions modeled by grid girls.
It is a loud, crude, packed out event that ruins smooth traveling time in the CBD for everyone for a whole weekend, this isn’t Mebourne people, so where is my car park??? rant rant rant, get your Ford/​Holden loving/​hating self and your opinions out of my face.
Basically, The Clipsal 500 came into place when Adelaide lost the privelege of holding the Grand Prix, surprise surprise. So now, we have the Clipsal where you can drink your self stupid and cry out your love for V8’s to your hearts content without fear of ridicule. The after party for all the Clipsal employees happens at The Palace Gallery, it’s worth trying to get in on this private function for all the free booze and hot scantily clad women you can handle.
Quite often you can hear the cars… but you can’t see them, after a while the sound of engines becomes this quiet continuous buzzing which becomes easy to ignore. not a cheap way to spend your weekend, but if cars is your jam, then get on it kids.