BUNBURY (WA)
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BUNBURY SPEEDWAY 2021
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2021 - BUNBURY SPEEDWAY WA SPRINTCAR SPEEDWEEK 1st January 2021WA Sprintcar Speedweek inception goes back many years to when Des Ferris and Bryan Mullings were promoting Bunbury Speedway and Con Migro was promoting Claremont Speedway, This group joined forces to create Speedweek, Headlining the four race meetings held over 2 night, Friday and Saturday nights and then the following Friday and Saturday, would be a team of big name American drivers, taking on some of the best drivers that Australia had to offer.
This years race meetings started with the first two at the Perth Motorplex, with two differant winners in Callam Williamson and James McFadden.
This the third event nearly didnt happen, just a couple of months earlier Speedway Australia had issued the Bunbury club with a work order at a cost of around eight hunded thousand dollars, at the time the order had to be completed before any open wheel cars could race at Bunbury, this was devestating news for the new committee that
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had just been voted in at the July AGM, many hours of phone conversations and meetings followed with the club trying to reach some sort of compromise and a lifting of the ban.
While all of this was going on the club members set about replacing about fifty odd concrete fence pannels and adding extra catch fence upright's to carry the new debris mesh that needed replacing, with only days to go before raceday the committee led by Kade Helms reguested a re-inspection of the track by Speedway Australia, this inspection was carried out and the Bunbury Speedway was approved to hold round three of this years WA Speedweek, The meeting was hailed a big success by all concerned, The fourth and final round new moves on to the Ellenbrook Speedway in the greater Perth metro area.