Fast & Loud Festival

The 2024 Fast & Loud Festival, hosted by Lake Macquarie City Council, features a street parade, Offshore Superboat and Powerboats races, aerial displays by Redbull pilot Matt Hall.

For the first time ever, Fast and Loud Festival will close the main streets of Belmont with live entertainment from Darlinghurst, and Warners Bay with a street parade of Superboats, Powerboats and vintage cars. 

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. The Australian Powerboats will race from 11am until approx. 4.30pm each day, launching from the boat ramp at Rathmines Park. 

The Superboats will race from Midday until 3pm each day and are visible all the way from Eleebana, through to Warners Bay and Speers Point, as well as the start/finish line at Marmong Point, where the pit area at Empire Marina is accessible to all.  

The Superboats racing is conducted in two main categories that are put on the course at the different times to each other. The first is speed restricted, where the name of the game is to be as close to the maximum as possible, without going over. The second is unlimited, and these boats are immediately identifiable by having enclosed cockpits, much like a fighter jet does. It's intense, often very close, and certainly extremely fast. 

For some people, the crowds and noise of big events can be overwhelming, therefore this year’s festival we will have noise cancelling headphones available at no cost. These headphones can be accessed for hire at the mobile Visitor Information Kiosks Warners Bay foreshore.

Friday 18 October

Warners Bay Foreshore, 6 - 9pm

Saturday 19 October

Warners Bay Foreshore, 11am – 7pm

Belmont Foreshore, 11am – 3pm

Rathmines Catalina Park, 10am – 4pm

Sunday 20 October

Warners Bay Foreshore, 10am – 3pm

Rathmines Catalina Park, 10am – 4pm

Speers Point Park 9am – 2pm

  

Boat Ramp Closures
Rathmines Park Boat Ramp will be closed from 8am Friday 18 October – 6pm Sunday 20 October for the Australian Powerboat Grand Prix 2024. Alternate boat ramps are Rathmines Boat Ramp and Balmoral Boat Ramp. 

Road Closure
Road closures will be in place at Warners Bay and Belmont Foreshore live sites. Click here to learn more.

Boat Exclusion zones 
For boat exclusion zones on Lake Macquarie, download the map available at this link: Superboat Promotion | NSW Government
Follow guidance from Maritime boats on event days. 

 

Proudly funded by the NSW Government’s Open Streets Program in association with Lake Macquarie City Council 

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