Car entry sales for the Summernats festival have broken a new record, selling out around 10 months ahead of next year's event.
The speed of sales broke last year's record when entries were sold out in May.
Event co-owner Andy Lopez said he and his team were "very appreciative that the street machine community love the event so much".
"People in the street machine community really love the event. They just don't want to miss out," he said.
"I guess it's a bit of scarcity meets demand meets people really feeling passionate about it. Those three things combined have led to this really nice position where we've sold out so early."
The festival brings modified street machines and tens of thousands of car enthusiasts to the capital every year.
Around 3000 car entries have been snapped up for next year's festival but Mr Lopez said those will be pared back by about 500 to meet the event capacity of 2500 cars.
Mr Lopez said entries that need more work, have a type of car that is overrepresented or exhibited poor behaviour at this year's event will be among those facing the cut.
Around 80 entrants were evicted from this year's event for bad behaviour but Mr Lopez said his team was continuing to review CCTV footage and social media to determine whether other entrants also engaged in wrongdoing.
"That number will tend to increase and that might end up being another say 40 or 50 vehicles through that process," he said.
"It's still not a massive number of cars or people that we end up excluding but we take all of that pretty seriously."
Mr Lopez said the post-Covid period has been tough for festivals but Summernats has proved "to be quite resilient as an event".
Around 120,000 people flocked to Canberra for the event this year, which has recently also expanded from its home at Exhibition Park to Braddon, where car enthusiasts showcased some of Australia's best modified vehicles as part of a fringe festival.
The event brings a multi-million dollar boost to the ACT economy annually but is often mired in controversy.
Footage circulated on social media showed a brawl erupting between crowd safety staff and patrons at this year's event.
On Thursday, police said two men who allegedly assaulted a number of patrons while working as crowd safety staff at the event have been charged and are set to face court.
Mr Lopez said he could not comment on the matter due to court proceedings but added that security operations undergo "a really thorough review" at the end of every event.
"We look at the things that happened that we didn't foresee - there's always going to be things like that - and how did we deal with it, what did we learn from it and how do we either [take] steps to make sure those things don't happen again, or make sure that we have a plan for if they do happen," he said.
Mr Lopez said the security company they worked with is a professional organisation and will be "as frank and transparent in a review with us as we would expect them".
"There's not much that I can really talk about what we've learned and what [changes] we would be making at this time just because of what's going on in the court," he said.
"What I will say is that I think ... the court process itself will inevitably flesh some things out that the Summernats can learn from as well."
