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Speaker 1: Five double A Nights with Matthew pantellas well. The Christmas

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Speaker 1: Toy Run has been saved with the shell B Power

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Speaker 1: Motor Sport Park stepping in to fill the breach and

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Speaker 1: hosting the community ride for Vinnie's on Sunday the fourteenth

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Speaker 1: of December. The CEO is Alastair McDonald and he joins

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Speaker 1: us now Alistair.

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Speaker 2: Good evening, Matthew, thanks for having me.

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Speaker 1: Thank you for your time this. Obviously you saw the

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Speaker 1: opportunity here to do something special to help kids in Adelaide,

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Speaker 1: kids in need. Yeah.

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Speaker 2: Look, a couple of our team members came forward when

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Speaker 2: the announcements made that wasn't going to go ahead, and

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Speaker 2: one of them was Panalies on our team and said,

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Speaker 2: look what you know, is there something we can do here.

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Speaker 2: We have a lot of BIK events up to Bend

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Speaker 2: and have the largest domestic BIK event, so we thought,

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Speaker 2: well we can we can help out here. So we

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Speaker 2: met with the organizers and thought, you know what, we

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Speaker 2: could still do this and we know that the riders

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Speaker 2: loved doing the toy run from the city up to

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Speaker 2: I think the most recently have been Strap Album. We

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Speaker 2: thought well, I can keep going and we're aal and

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Speaker 2: I a cruise from around the track and people can register,

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Speaker 2: drop off a toy and all the money will go

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Speaker 2: to Vinny. So I think it's a win win for everyone,

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Speaker 2: I hope. And yeah, we just think it's such a

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Speaker 2: great cause and we didn't want to lose that off

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Speaker 2: the calendar.

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Speaker 1: Okay, so where is it kicking off. It's not kicking

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Speaker 1: off in the city though, is it. It's up that way?

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Speaker 2: Well, well, Bill, the riders will meet at the bend

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Speaker 2: at three o'clock and then we're going to organize a

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Speaker 2: form more cruise because that's just something special about the

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Speaker 2: band of people love using around the band. But like

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Speaker 2: every other year, people will go up you know, most

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Speaker 2: likely a crossroads and then off you pass out and

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Speaker 2: then we'll continue onto the bend. So I still think

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Speaker 2: if people want to catch you know, hundreds of motor

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Speaker 2: cycles riding up the freeway and up through the you know,

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Speaker 2: from the city, that will still happen. We've just decided

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Speaker 2: to put on an event for him and make it

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Speaker 2: a bit of fun and collect some of the toys,

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Speaker 2: and we'll collect the registrations and we'll donate one hundred

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Speaker 2: percent to Vinny.

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Speaker 1: That's fantastic. So someday the pot three o'clock is, say,

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Speaker 1: is when it gets under way up there and and

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Speaker 1: that cruise around the track, and that would be pretty cool.

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Speaker 1: I got to say that what a what a good

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Speaker 1: way to see it too if you're a bike rider.

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Speaker 2: Yeah, well we've got a menu product called tourist drives.

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Speaker 2: A lot of people go up to ride from Adelaide

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Speaker 2: to Melbourne or Adelaide Sydney and you can now drop

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Speaker 2: off and come to the bend and turn off and

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Speaker 2: cruise the track. And it's really really popular. So I

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Speaker 2: think we've got all the elements that they'll get to

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Speaker 2: cruise the track, which is the second longest in the world,

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Speaker 2: and all we're after now as a father Christmas, I thought, Mattey,

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Speaker 2: maybe you put the hand up that I don't know.

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Speaker 1: I have been Father Christmas before in the Norwd Town

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Speaker 1: Hall for a five double a concert and you know

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Speaker 1: that it's a demanding role.

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Speaker 2: Surprisingly we'll put it on the back of a bike

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Speaker 2: and then you Yeah.

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Speaker 1: I had this this young child come up, probably about

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Speaker 1: a four year old, who said to me, as Father

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Speaker 1: Christmas will gear up. She said, do you remember me

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Speaker 1: from last year, and I thought, no, she's talking to

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Speaker 1: Santa of course, so you've got to be careful how

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Speaker 1: you answer. Yeah, that's right. Okay. Now, have you had

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Speaker 1: much interest so far? This was only announced a few

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Speaker 1: days ago. Do you know that there'd been many people

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Speaker 1: enrolling registering? I suppose it's the word. Yeah.

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Speaker 2: Look, we've had a lot of media interest and a

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Speaker 2: lot of interest from the community. So you know, I've

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Speaker 2: been around a lot of volunteer organizations and spend a

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Speaker 2: fair time on charity boards. And one of the things

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Speaker 2: really was really important to us and the Shin family was,

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Speaker 2: you know, it's the organizations like this that do this voluntarily.

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Speaker 2: Once they're gone, they're gone. They're very hard to get

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Speaker 2: back to mobilize. And I think that's what motivated us

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Speaker 2: to get involved, to go you know what this is,

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Speaker 2: This is a shame. People get busy with their lives.

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Speaker 2: You know, we met with the association and some of

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Speaker 2: the challenges that have that was just simply time and energy.

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Speaker 2: The pass was there, the cause was there. So I

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Speaker 2: think there's a lot of interesting and I think adding

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Speaker 2: we have Father Christmas there. You know, we'll have some

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Speaker 2: food and make it a really fun day. I think people,

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Speaker 2: you know, cruising up through the hills is one of

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Speaker 2: the special things in South Australia and in Adelaide, South Australia.

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Speaker 2: I think coming up that way through the hills and

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Speaker 2: going out to tail and then and then being able

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Speaker 2: to cruise, you know, the best most sport facility in

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Speaker 2: the country. It's not sk enough. So I think, you know,

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Speaker 2: if we can keep the tradition going that these volunteers

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Speaker 2: have done so many years, I just we really felt

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Speaker 2: that once if it just finished this year, you know,

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Speaker 2: they were like, yeah, we might try it again. This

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Speaker 2: is just so hard to bring back once you lose

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Speaker 2: that volunteer group. So hopefully we can do them proud

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Speaker 2: and reign the committee and again we've just got the

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Speaker 2: venue that can help.

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Speaker 1: Yeah. Absolutely, Now come on, how long before we get

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Speaker 1: to see a Grand Prix at Tailor and Bend.

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Speaker 2: I think it's going to be pretty hard to ply

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Speaker 2: that out. But you know, I'm actually not you know,

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Speaker 2: from a motorsport background. But what I do know is

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Speaker 2: everyone who comes there says it's the best venue in

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Speaker 2: an Australia, not in Australia Asia, and it's certainly deserving

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Speaker 2: of an international global event and whether it's the F

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Speaker 2: one or Motor GP or some event like that in

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Speaker 2: the future. I think the fact that a family has

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Speaker 2: invested closer to two hundred million in a venue that's

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Speaker 2: the largest private investment in sport and entertainments South Australia,

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Speaker 2: the largest investment of sport and entertainments ince Adelaide. So

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Speaker 2: this is this is something that the family's done with

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Speaker 2: a vision and the region I think has benefited from it.

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Speaker 2: So let's hope fingers crossed. I think, you know, Grand

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Speaker 2: Prix might be hard to play out of the Victorians,

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Speaker 2: but you know there's other things like Moto GP or

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Speaker 2: World Endurance events that could come to the Bend in

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Speaker 2: the future.

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Speaker 1: Yeah, absolutely look forward to seeing it, but look forward

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Speaker 1: to seeing the toy run first up and December fourteen,

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Speaker 1: it's the some of course, and three o'clock up there, Alisairs.

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Speaker 1: Thank you so much for your time today. I hope

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Speaker 1: it goes well. I'm sure it will and good on

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Speaker 1: the shell v Power at Motorsport Park, putting the hand

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Speaker 1: up and taking this son so it isn't lost to

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Speaker 1: say Thank you.

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Speaker 2: Matthew and anyone who wants to register go to the

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Speaker 2: ben dot com. Do you, and all one hundred percent

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Speaker 2: of the proceeds go the Vinue.

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Speaker 1: Good on you, Thank you, Alistair, have a good merry Christmas.

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Speaker 1: Bye bye, Alistair McDonald, CEO, shell V Power Motorsport Park,