Superloop Adelaide 500

The Hon. T.A. FRANKS (15:17): I seek leave to make a brief explanation before addressing a question to the Minister for Trade, Tourism and Investment on the ticket sales for the Superloop 500.

Leave granted.

The Hon. T.A. FRANKS: Earlier this year, the minister touted a 3 per cent increase in ticket sales for the Adelaide Superloop this year in comparison to last year. When asked what figure that 3 per cent amounted to, he undertook to bring that answer back to this council. We are still waiting.

My question to the minister is: can you answer, without embellishment or anecdote, the number of ticket sales for the Adelaide Superloop, the face value of those tickets—because I do not want to hear tickets that weren't actually sold included in that amount—for this year as well as last year, and whether or not that indeed equated to a 3 per cent increase?

The Hon. D.W. RIDGWAY (Minister for Trade, Tourism and Investment) (15:19): I am just trying to make sure that I get the accurate information.

Members interjecting:

The PRESIDENT: Order! Show some respect for the Hon. Ms Franks.

The Hon. D.W. RIDGWAY: I am trying to see whether I have the exact figures here or not. If I can just have a moment to have a look, Mr President. I don't believe I have the exact ticket sales here. My understanding, from the information I have, is that we had 254,000 people attending across the four days, including 91,500 on the final Sunday, but I don't have the exact ticket sales.

I could go on with a whole range of discussions around how good the event was, but I think the honourable member doesn't want to hear that; she just wants to talk about ticket sales. The figures that I have available are 91,000 people on the final Sunday, so being a sellout they would have closed the gates, with 254,000 people attending across the four days.

The exact ticket sales, I don't have in this particular briefing note. Because it was so excessively hot on Friday and Saturday—there's obviously a number of walk-ups that come to the event: 'It's a nice day; we'll go to the race.' I think the walk-up numbers were down a bit on Friday and Saturday, but I think they were up again on the Sunday. I am surprised that the exact figures are not here. Again, I will take that on notice and bring back a response for the honourable member.