flawed randomly generated loot that turns out to be vendor trash 99% of the time, regardless of "rarity level" a very good UI that allows no confusion If you want to support grassroots motorsport in Australia, sign the petition to save Archerfield Drift Park on or write a (polite!) letter to the Lord Mayor here.The good: - simplistic but nice visuals all through the game We need a space where we can go drifting without upsetting people, and this is really the key.” I own all the infrastructure at the track, so we could take that elsewhere. “I have funding to build another track, so it isn’t a case where we need financial help. “Even if we could get another year on our lease and have Brisbane City Council help us find somewhere else to do this, that would be awesome,” says Luke. You can’t do anything with the land it is all swamp and wasteland, so they couldn’t even develop it into houses or anything. “We have three boundaries one is the speedway, one is a concrete crushing plant and the other is the airport. The local minister from this area can’t understand why this has happened after 15 years and that for so many years the local council knew what was happening here. “I had a call from the Premier’s office, who can’t understand why this has happened. “Worldwide we have had a lot of support, sending in emails to the Mayor’s office and the like,” he says. While the letter from BCC orders drifting to cease from 29 January, Luke isn’t folding his tents and going quietly into the night. “It’s like telling people to go play cricket in the ocean – it is ridiculous!” “People have been messaging the Council and they get a nonsensical reply from Council telling them they support drifting and that everyone can go drifting in the Speedway, which is a dirt oval,” Luke explains. However, the replies from Council only increased frustration among drifters. Even if they gave us another year to plan a move to another location that would be good, but he refuses to communicate with us or work with us.”Īfter the drifting scene heard about the proposed closure, an online campaign began to let Brisbane City Council know what a treasured piece of community infrastructure Archerfield Drift Park is. “It is totally the wrong way to go about sorting this problem out, and we want to sort this all out properly, and to do it in a way that doesn’t harm the Speedway. “I’ve had no reply or response from the town planner driving this, who I think is a young guy trying to make a name for himself,” explains Luke. “We also talk a lot about the mental health benefits of having the track and fostering the community within drifting, because it helps so much, even if people aren’t drifting and are just coming down to the track to be a part of this community.įrustratingly, Luke hasn’t been able to talk directly with the town planner responsible for the shut-down to try and sort out a resolution or a re-zoning of the land to fix the Council’s issue with the Drift Park. “We have guys doing the right thing at the track who had been on the limit of going to jail from doing dumb stuff on the street,” he says. “We’ve been taking guys off the street for 15 years,” he says. Street Machine readers may not be the biggest fans of the Japanese sport, but Luke points to the huge benefit of giving Brissie-based drifters somewhere safe to practice their craft. The Drift Park never got a phone call over this, but I don’t think they realised the community we have around drifting.” But the Council needs to explain how this mistake was allowed to occur for 15 years. “As far as paperwork is concerned, he is in his rights to do what he has done. After that, he rang the Speedway and told them they cannot have drifting at the Drift Park!
He came to the track telling me how pro-motorsport he was but never mentioned that zoning issue, or how he wanted to shut the Drift Park down. “This town planner has gone back through all the paperwork and found zoning from 1974. You can see the smoke from down the street, but you won’t hear the cars. Every car runs a muffler and has to be under 93dB measured at 30m, and we run strict noise management during every event. “In June of this year a new town planner started at the Brisbane City Council and tried to push the noise issue, but the Speedway carried out testing to show we comply with all the required levels. While things were peachy for the past few years, everything changed this year following a visit from a new council town planner, who Luke says went about his agenda in a less-than-honest way.
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