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BUNBURY SPEEDWAY 1988
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1988 - BUNBURY SPEEDWAY SOLO SLIDESHOW
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1988 - SOUTHERN CIRCUITSSpeedway Riders Association (South West Division)The growing interest in Sidecar racing in the South West became a problem, there were just too many racers and not enough starting spots on race nights, the situation was WA had a very high level of talented riders and passengers that would get automatic starts, Claremont, Bunbury, Collie, Albany were some of the tracks that Motorcycling Australia sanctioned.
Many country riders entering into the sport found themselves traveling to a venue to be elliminated from the nights racing after one or two events.
Enter Dave Harvey and Eric (Bolt) Blyth, these two as well as many others managed to convince Motor Cycling Australia of the merits of opening up more race track such as Margaret River and Manjimup to Sidcar racing as well as holding not so high profile events at Bunbury and Collie.
The Sidecar Rookie list simply exploded.
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1988 - SOUTH WEST SIDECARS SLIDESHOW
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1988 - BUNBURY SPEEDWAY MODIFIED JUNIOR SLIDESHOW
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1988 - BUNBURY SPEEDWAY STREET SEDAN SLIDESHOW
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1988 - BUNBURY CITY SPEEDWAY USA v WA SUPER SEDAN TEST MATCH 6th February 1988Bunbury Speedway hosted round 2 of the Super Sedan challange between the USA and West Australia on the 6th of Febuary 1988, the series was over 3 rounds with the first and third being held at Claremont Speedway.
The American team of: John Pearson (Captain), Steve Beitler, Mike Klein, and Chuck Waddell was assisted by West Australian's Ben Ludlow as a reserve and Rex Metcalf as team manager.
The West Australian team of: Bert Vosbergen (Captain), Des Alfirevich, Peter Brook and John Singleton appointed Graig Nylander as reserve and John Cardy as team manager.
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1988 - GREG FREEMAN Modified Sedan's
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(editorial South West Times 1st March 1988) (pics Mal Cooper) |
Bunbury sports star of the year finalist Darrell Thomson finds visability difficult as he pilots his modified sedan down the back straight, The was no staring roll for the outstanding driver on Saturday night. Thomson finished out of the running in all of his races.2nd placed to Freeman was Neil Johnson and 3rd Ross McKenzie.
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Photo's Mal Cooper.
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1988 - BUNBURY SPEEDWAY FORMULA 500 SLIDESHOW
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1988 - GARY SUTTON Super Sedan's
1988 - Waroona champion Gary Sutton tearing up the raceway at Bunbury. Photo: Mal Cooper.
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1988 - BUNBURY SPEEDWAY SUPER SEDAN SLIDESHOW
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1988 - BUNBURY CITY SPEEDWAY WEST AUSTRALIAN LIMITED SPRINTCAR CHAMPIONSHIP 5th March 1988 |
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1988 - WEST AUSTRALIAN LIMITED SPRINTCAR CHAMPIONSHIP
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(Editorial George Goodwin)(South West Times)Photo's Mal Cooper |
1988 - Plenty of action on the raceway
1988 Paul Beacham travelled from Derby.
1988 Graeme Werner Bunbury based car. |
============================================================Brian Moyle recalls: At the time my job was to open up my workshop to the top 5 finishing cars after the Championship, There the crews would remove and strip the engines so I could measure them, The rules were quite open but the cubic inch of the engines could not exceed 323 cubic inch.
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JJ Green was the outright favourite to win
A blown engine would force JJ out of the final results.
1988 - 1989 WA Limited Sprintcar Championship, winner Peter Wojtanowski. Photo: Mal Cooper. |
The two first placed cars of Peter Wojtanowski and Beaver Reynolds both came in within spec and were passed, The third placed car of Dennis Collier was out of spec with too many cubes and was eliminated from the championship, the next placed car of Tim Davis was rolled in, stripped and measured and found to be legal.