MELBOURNE (Reuters) – Adult fans at one of Australia’s most popular motor sport races, the Bathurst 1000, will be limited to one “slab” of beer a day — or 24 375 ml cans — as police focus on reducing alcohol-related crime.

The 24-can rule would also be placed on mixed drinks for the V8 car race starting Thursday which draws thousands to the rural town of Bathurst in eastern New South Wales state, the NSW police said Tuesday.

But more restrained spectators would be able to slake their thirst, if not their craving for alcohol, with up to 36 cans of low or mid-strength beer.

Wine lovers must make do with no more than four liters of cask wine per day and combinations of the options would not be allowed, the police statement said.

Only 24 beers a day? I thought Australia was one of the countries that encouraged fun – and from the look of the Bathurst 1000 there really isn’t much to do beside get hammered and what for some alcohol fueled trouble to start.

Sounds like lazy police work if you ask me. Pfft, trying to stop trouble before it happens.