The move is on to ban alcohol from racing sponsorship

Australian politicians have called for all alcohol sponsorship to be banned at the Clipsal 500 V8 motor race in Adelaide. A number of teams competing in the Adelaide street race have alcohol companies as sponsors or backers.

South Australian Democrat MP Sandra Kanck said having spirit and wine companies associated with motor racing promoted the combination of alcohol and fast driving.

Ms Kanck said tobacco sponsorship of sport, including motor racing, was banned in the 1980s and it was time to do the same with alcohol sponsorship of car racing.

[Editor's Note: Look for this to be the start of a move to ban alcohol from all motorsports sponsorship – drinking and driving just do not go together. Whereas with tobacco that you smoke, you kill yourself, with alcohol when you drink and drive you kill innocent victims, and if you are lucky you also kill yourself so you do not have to live with the guilt. Alcohol advertising in sports has just as bad an influence on our children as tobacco does, perhaps even more. Now that cancer stick advertising is out of motorsports (unfortunately not in the IRL where Marlboro is rumored to still have a large at-track presence as it attempts to promote its cancer causing cigarettes to poor hapless race fans) it's time for the sport to clean up its act with regard to alcohol.]