BUNBURY SPEEDWAY 1977
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1977 - SOUTH WESTERN TIMES NEWSPAPER REPORTED
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1977 - COLIN HARPER FORD MUSTANG Super Saloon Car's
1977 - Colin Harper. Photos: unknown.
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1977 - PETER "WIZZ' COCHRANE Super Saloon Cars
West Coast Speedway News Photo feature
1977 - Peter Cochrane in the Kojonup High Performance Torana at Bunbury Speedway. Photo: unknown.
1977 - SOUTH WESTERN TIMES NEWSPAPER REPORTED
(Editorial South West Times)
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1977 - AUSTRALIAN AUTO ACTION MAGAZINE REPORTED
6th January 1977
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1977 - BUNBURY SPEEDWAY AUSTRALIAN SPRINTCAR CHAMPIONSHIP 22nd January 1977 |
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1977 - TERRY HUDSON Sprintcar's
1977 - Terry Hudson from Bunbury with his new fully imported Sprintcar that he will be racing in the Australian Sprintcar Championship at Bunbury Speedway. Photo: South Western Times newspaper.
1977 - COLIN RESTA Sprintcar's
1977 - Colin Resta from Bunbury in the older style Supermodified that has served him well at the Bunbury Speedway. Ford 302 injected Windsor powered. Photo: South Western Times newspaper.
1977 - RAY GENEVE Sprintcar's
1977 - Named the Osborne Park Charger Con Migro this man ripped up the competition when he raced at Bunbury Speedway. Ray lists his biggest competition in the west as Alf Barbaballo. A truely great man Ray always prepared to make friends in the sport. Photo's. South Western Times newspaper.
1977 - GEORGE TATNELL Sprintcar's
1977 - George Tatnell from New South Wales highly rated around Australia as one of the best. Photo: South Western Times newspaper.
1977 - STEVE BRAZIER Sprintcar's
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1977 - GARY RUSH Sprintcar's
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1972 - Two fierce competitors on the raceway. Steve Brazier and Gary Rush.
1977 - BRIAN BECKINGHAM Sprintcar's
1977 - Top Claremont Speedway racer Brian Beckingham here for the Australian Championship at Bunbury Speedway. Photo: South Western Times newspaper.
1977 - GARY RUSH Sprintcar's
West Coast Speedway News feature
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Gary Rush is pictured here at Bunbury Speedway during the running of the 1977 Australian Sprintcar Championship.This would be the first National Championship win of many for Garry. In an interview with Rapid Images many years later, Garry made the comment that he had a soft spot for Bunbury Speedway because of his first win.The car that Garry drove was owned by Sid Moore.
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Garry Rush in the Sid Moore owned car. Photo: FRMedia.
1977 - DAVID CONLIN Sprintcar's
1977 - David Conlin the current Victorian Sprintcar champion here at Bunbury Speedway to take on the best in Australia. Photo: unknown.
1977 - SUNDAY INDEPENDENT NEWSPAPER REPORTED
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But this was not to be when the record 10,000 strong crowd watched Rush break loose from the pack and surge to a handy lead all in the first lap.
It was in the first half lap of the grand final that seven cars managed to involve themselves in a chaotic mess of metal moving into the first corner, Bunbury's Colin Resta, caught the front end of a following car and five other cars were too close behind to avoid a pile up of cars.
Fortunately no-one was hurt during the fracas, track officials moved quickly to remove the damaged cars off the track ready for the restart of the final, The restart saw Gary Rush once again surge ahead of the field to open up a good lead on his nearest rival, Noel Bradford.
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Bradford could not produce the pace and skill that Rush showed throughout the race, Rush reached speeds of up to 80 miles an hour in the main straights during the race.
George Tatnel followed Bradford over the line to gain third placing with New South Wales star Steve Brazier gaining forth.
Earlier in the night Bradford set a new track record of 2 min 37.2 secs
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Part of the large crowd that turned up to see a display of the Modified Sprintcars on display at Bunbury Toyota on Saturday morning Photo: Allan Smart.
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1977 - SOUTH WESTERN TIMES NEWSPAPER REPORTED
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1977 - BUNBURY CAR CLUB AWARDS NIGHT
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10th May 1977 |
1977 - CHRIS BILSBY Saloon Car's
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