PERTH (WA)
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CLAREMONT SPEEDWAY 1976
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1976 - CLAREMONT SPEEDWAY 2nd January 1976 |
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1976 - CLAREMONT SPEEDWAY 9th January 1976 |
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1976 - ALLAN BLAKE Saloon Car's
00 00 1976 - Allan Blake in the new Torana that he bought over East, raced at Liverpool on the tar, Shipped to Western Australia and turned it into a dirt car, Photographer: unknown.
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1976 - CLAREMONT SPEEDWAY SOLO SLIDESHOW
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1976 - JOHN MICHALK & MICK SHERWOOD Sidecar's
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1976 - CLAREMONT SPEEDWAY SIDECAR SLIDESHOW
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1976 - USA COCA COLA CHEVY MONZA SEDAN CAR TEAM
Claremont Speedway announced the the American Monza Production car team would be appearing at the showgrounds on the 27th of Febuary and the 5th and 12th of March 1976.
front to rear: "Big Ed Wilbur, Hash Brown, Mike Andretta, and Gene Welch with the Coca Cola Monza's. Photographer: Peter Roebuck.
1976 - USA Team Captain Gene Welch. Photo: unknown.
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1976 - DES ALFIREVICH Saloon Car's
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1976 - MARILYN RIDLEY Saloon Car's
Marilyn Ridley was born into a speedway family, The family owned business was a Wrecking Yard, Both Marilyn's parents raced speedway cars, Sedans and Supermods so it was only natural for Marilyn to take up racing, Marilyn wasn't content with contesting the ladies events, she went on to become a house hold name while racing against and beating some of here more fancied male competitors at Claremont.
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1976 - The Ridley family always turned out very well presented cars Photo's: Peter Roebuck.
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1976 - TONY GRAY Saloon Car's
At a time when Chrysler's catch cry was "Hey Charger" Tony Grey was one of those drivers that looked outside the usual choice of Falcons, Holdens and American car, Tony chose a charger an raced with some success, Not only did Tony compete at Claremont but he often travelled to country tracks such as Bunbury and Collie speedways.
Tony Gray the racer in the Charger. Photo Peter Roebuck. |
Tony on the high line while Wayne Negus spins Photo: Peter Roebuck |
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1976 - WAYNE S NEGUS Saloon Car'sWayne S Negus was the son of one of West Australia's most famous Motor Racing drivers on dirt roads and black track roads and circuits, Syd Negus.
Wayne raced for quite some time in Speedway in a Mini as well as a LJ Torana and a SLR500 Torana. His efforts pleased the Holden Dealer team so much that he gained a position in the dealer team at Bathurst in the 4 car. |
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1976 - IVAR BENNECHE Production Sedan's
Claremont Speedway facebook Photo feature
1976 - Eastern states driver Ivar Benneche turns in some practice laps in his fuel injected Repco crossflow grey motor powered 48 series Holden at Claremont Speedway prior to the running of the Australian Saloon Car Championship. Photo: Michael Quaimann.
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1976 - LEO GOMMERS Saloon Car's
1976 - Leo Gommers on the infield at Claremont Speedway. Photographer: Peter Roebuck.
1976 - Phil Meyers drives under Leo Gommers. Photographer: Peter Roebuck.
1976 - Axel failure on the big Monaro. Photographer: unknown.
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1976 - STAN STARCEVICH Saloon Car's
1976 - Stan the Man Starcevich getting turned around. Photographer: unknown.
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1976 - CLAREMONT SPEEDWAY PRODUCTION SEDAN SLIDESHOW
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1976 - SPEEDCAR FAMILIES
Peter Roebuck photo feature
1976 - The Bradford family. Noel and Kevin. Photo: Peter Roebuck.
1976 - Kevin Bradford. Photo: Peter Roebuck. |
1976 - Keith Mann. Photo: Peter Roebuck. |
1976 - The Mann family Trevor and Keith. Photographer: Peter Roebuck.
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1976 - THE SPORTS REVIEW REPORTED
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10th December 1976
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1976 - GARY RUSH Speedcar's
Garry Rush wheels the Tony Varis Pacesetter Homes VW through Pits bend during a mid week practice session at the Showground, Rush who was racing sprintcars in WA at the time is also a experienced speedcar driver.(Photographer: unknown) |
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1976 - NOEL BRADFORD Sprintcar's
1976 - Noel Bradford in the Claremont pits not long after his Australian Sprintcar Championship win at Latrobe Speedway in Tasmania. Photo: Peter Roebuck.
1976 - Noel Bradford being congradulated by Con Migro at Claremont Speedway after another big win. Photo: Peter Roebuck.
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1976 - BOB CURRIE Sprintcar's
1976 - Bob Currie was a regular back marker at Claremont that took it up to the more cashed up drivers, often beating them. Photo: Peter Roebuck.
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1976 - GARY RUSH Sprintcar's
1976 - Gary Rush would smash the 2 and the 4 lap records at the big Claremont Showground at this meeting. Photo: Peter Roebuck.
1976 - Rush at Claremont. Photo: Peter Roebuck.
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1976 - KEN JENKINS (NSW) Sprintcar's |
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1976 - Ken Jenkins the Champion racer from New South Wales, would become life long friends with Ray Geneve. Photo: Peter Roebuck.
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1976 - TREVOR KENWORTHY Sprintcar's
1976 - Trevor Kenworthy was known for his love of Chrysler engines, the bigger the better. Photo: Peter Roebuck.
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1976 - CLAREMONT SPEEDWAY SPEEDCAR SLIDESHOW
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1976 - PETE SULLIVAN Programme
At fourteen years of age Pete drew and made up his own speedway programme, calling his own track Atville Speedway, made up from Melville and surrounding suburbs in his programme, he put his three best mates in and was humble enough to see he himself, did not win in his tital programme, he would put his mate first his brother in law Bob Champion who was a tq driver from Bibra Lake Speedway.
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Peter Sullivan would go on to not ride solo bikes as he first wanted to, but jump into the swingers chair for some very hard hitting sidecar riders over his speedway career,
Sadley, Peter passed away on the 28th of September 2012.