Summernats
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| Genre | Car festival |
| Date(s) | January |
| Frequency | Annually |
| Location(s) | Exhibition Park in Canberra (EPIC), Canberra |
| Inaugurated | 31 December 1987 |
| Attendance | 103,000 (2014) |
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Summernats, short for Summer Nationals, is an annual car festival held in Canberra, Australia since 1987. Summernats, which is usually held at the start of the year, is the best known car festival in Australia, and an event which attracts many tourists to Canberra, bringing in excess of $20 million in economic benefit to the ACT economy. It has increasingly been promoted as an event for families. The Summernats attendance record was set in 2005 with 119,000 people.
Summernats features many street machines with airbrushed artwork, and restored and modified cars. It is held over a four-day period, with many events, with prizes in competitions such as for burnouts, parades of cars around the track, a Miss Summernats competition, and fireworks at night.
Between 1987 and 2009, Summernats' promoter and organiser was Chic Henry. Henry sold Summernats in 2009 to Out There Productions, a company led by Andy Lopez. The naming rights sponsor of Summernats is Street Machine magazine, and the presenting sponsor is Rare Spares.
The ACT Government has expressed its strong support of Summernats, praising the significant benefit it brings to Canberra's economy.
Summernats is held at Exhibition Park in Canberra (EPIC), corner of Flemington Road and Federal Highway, Lyneham.
Many awards are given during the course of the festival.
The most prestigious award is the "Summernats Grand Champion".
The Grand Champion award was introduced at Summernats 6 - with Peter Fitzpatrick being the first recipient (the first of Peter's six Grand Champion awards). Prior to this the top award was; Top Street Machine Overall.
The Summernats holds one of Australia's most prestigious Show and Shine events. Vehicles from around the nation use the Summernats to announce their arrival on the Australian scene. There are the following categories:
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