The Liberal / National Coalition Victorian State Government clearly understand that your votes won them the election at the end of last year. Prior to that election they indicated that they would seriously consider building the new ANDRA Melbourne Drag Racing venue. While they never made a formal election commitment they have advised that they will get it as soon as possible as they had to deliver the promised election commitments. The ANDRA Project Team have been in contact with the relevant Ministers and Departments trying to gain a formal commitment however they are going through a complete review of all the information gathered over the recent years. The Project team have advised that the Minister for Sport should receive a briefing of all the options within the next few weeks. After that period The ANDRA Project Team and others will be turning up the heat to get the Minister to discuss the project within the Governments political hierarchy. Now is a good time for you to wind things back up and write to The Hon Hugh Delahunty Minister for Sport Level 22 50 Lonsdale Street Melbourne, Victoria, 3000 E: hugh.delahunty@parliament.vic.gov.au Some suggested points you may include; - You voted for the Liberal/National Coalition by Labor ignore your desire for an new drag strip. - There has been no ANDRA Championship Drag Racing since 2001 (190 years ago). - There is no other Drag Strip in Melbourne that can meet the requirements for ANDRA Championship Drag Racing. - Other sports have multiple Government venue options for their sports, whereas Drag Racing has no options and has never received any Victorian Government funding for the sport or a venue. - Providing that the Government builds the initial venue, the sport is operationally viable including all venue maintenance. - The ANDRA Melbourne Drag Racing venue is a 'once only' capital cost to Government with no recurring costs to Government which has been proven by other real world examples in Australia. - Drag Racing creates jobs ... lots of jobs. - Drag Racing provides education and business acumen as people plan, design, budget, build, spend, test, race and evaluate their performance. This creates great personal training opportunities for team owners and all their crew members. - The ongoing operational economic impact was estimated at round $190m per annum by the Victorian Governments own consultant. - The economic impact during construct was estimated to be a further $29m dollars. - The entire 'once only' construction cost is under $38m. - There is no risk to Government and the ANDRA Project Team has done this before and clearly understands how to do it and make it work. So get your fingers going and write to the Minister in your own words, perhaps including some of the points above.