Lake Mac is set for a super-charged weekend afloat, on shore and in the air as the Fast and Loud Festival kicks off for 2024.
This year’s festival includes the first three races of the 2024-2025 Offshore Superboat Championships, with a course stretching from Marmong Point to Booragul, across to Speers Point and down to Warners Bay and Eleebana.
The sleek, twin-hulled Superboats set to feature this weekend have a top speed of 240kmh and can accelerate from 0-100kmh in less than two seconds.
Among this year’s Superboat pilots is Darren Nicholson, a multiple world and Australian champion.
Smaller, more manoeuvrable single-hull Powerboats will race off Rathmines throughout the weekend.
Five live sites will pop-up around the lake over the weekend, offering the best vantage points to watch the Powerboat and Superboat races and aerial display, featuring live music, roving entertainment, and food and market stalls.
Mayor Adam Shultz said that at various times across the weekend, livesites would operate at Warners Bay Foreshore, Belmont Foreshore, Rathmines Catalina Park, Speers Point Park and Empire Marina.
The Australian Powerboats will race from 11am until approx. 4.30pm each day, launching from the boat ramp at Rathmines Park.
Friday
The festival kicks off with a free concert by Love That Hat at the Warners Bay rotunda on Friday from 6-9pm.
Saturday
Saturday runs from 9am-7.30pm at Warners Bay, with a road closure in place from 3pm – 8pm on The Esplanade between Lake Street and King Street to host the street parade. Matt Hall Racing will perform a gravity-defying aerobatic display at 11am.
Rathmines will host a livesite from 10am-4pm, with Australian Formula Powerboat Grand Prix racing close to shore throughout the day. You can enjoy live music, face painting, jumping castles, carnival games, street food trucks, market stalls and much more!
Belmont will feature live music with country music band Darlinghurst, markets, food trucks and kids’ activities from 11am-3pm, with a road closure in place from 9am-5pm on Brooks Parade from Maude Street to Sharp Street.
Matt Hall Racing will fly straight from Warners Bay to Belmont to perform another aerobatic display from 11.10am, with a meet and greet with Hall at Belmont Foreshore, from noon-1:30pm.
Sunday
The action continues on Sunday with a continued livesite and more Superboat racing at Warners Bay, Powerboats and a livesite at Rathmines and a ‘Show and Shine’ car show at Speers Point Park from 9am-2pm.
Go to lakemac.com.au for more information and a full event program.
Fast and Loud is proudly funded by the NSW Government’s Open Streets Program and delivered in partnership with Empire Marina.