I still had a great weekend regardless. $175 for 4 day camping pass is not bad, given you'd be paying about $30 a night at a Caravan Park for a powered site. I was there with seasoned summernats veterans so we avoided alot of the sh*t. Cars were back in the tent by 5pm each day, we left the grounds by 7-8pm headed in to town & hit up the pubs, got back & majority of the sh*t kickers had well & truly passed out by that stage. Thursday & friday night it was extremely tame anyway. It only really got rowdy on the saturday night. Moving closer to Sydney would be useless. The guys we went down with love the travel because it means being able to justify camping over & making it a mates weekend. There is talk it may be held around Wollongong in future (not sure how) but their wives would expect them home each night. Being in canberra means they can get on the piss & enjoy a weekend with mates.