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SPEEDWAY PARK 1981
1981 - SPEEDWAY PARK. Harry Neale Speedcar Memorial. Festival City Formula 500 Championship. Sprintcar's. Saloon Car's. Solo's & Sidecar's. 27th February 1981.Graham Cowland win's the Harry Neale MemorialGraham Cowland has tonight stamped his name in the record book's by winning the Harry Neale Memorial race for Speedcars, here at Speedway Park in Adelaide.
Cowland who was at the wheel of the ex Bill Wigzell VW midget led home Zeke Agars, with Gary Dillon in third.
In the support racing on the night, the big crowd saw plenty of action starting with Wayne Faehrmann winning the Festival City Championship for Formula 500's, followed by Jeff Ongley in second and John Wilson in third. The Sprintcar feature went down as a win to John Moyle, Tony Orlando stared in the Saloon Car's winning the Saloon Car Match race, In the Sidecars the combination of Brian Schultz and Geoff
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Graetz would take out the Star's Final. While the Solo Handicap feature would be won by Graham Mutton.
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1981 - SPEEDWAY PARK. Queensland Speedcar Championship. Don Willison Memorial Best Pairs Classic & Sedan Cars. 13th March 1981.BILL WIGZELLSouth Australian Champion
It has been here tonight at Speedway Park that will go down in the history files that South Australian racer Bill Wigzell has won the first South Australian Speedcar Championship.
As per normal the on track action from the speedcars was fantastic and well worth the admission price.
Don Willison Memorial Best PairsThe mighty Sidecars were also on hand tonight with the running of the running of the Don Willison Memorial Best Pairs Classic. The local combination's of Peter Menz / Neil Graetz and Tom Atherton / Warren McCloud were crowned the winners.Additional support on the night came in the form of Solo's and the Sedans.
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1981 - AUSTRALASIAN SPEEDWAY STAR. Reported. 16th April 1981.
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1981 - SPEEDWAY PARK. ADELAIDE SPRINTCAR STAMPEDE.
1981 - West Aussie Alf Barbagallo in the Unipart Murphey at the Adelaide Sprintcar Stampede. Photo: Adrian Maggs collection.
1981 - SPEEDWAY PARK. South Australian select v Young England Solo Test team. Sidecars. Speedcars & Sprintcars. 4th December 1981.Pom's beat South Aussie's.Speedway City has once again put on a fantastic night of racing for the fans here tonight. The Solo boys were about enter into a test format. Our local Boys were going to take on the Young Poms.
The racing was fierce and both team had every chance of winning, but in the end it turned out that the young Poms had won the test 55 to South Australia 53, on ya boys.
Bill Barrows too Hot.The Sprintcars featured over the second half of the show, John Moyle won an early heat but it was Bill Barrows who came home first in the feature.
Weise wins Speedcars.A large field of Speedcar's lent support to the program, with Alan Weise winning the feature, while in the Sidecar feature the combination of Peter Menz & Brenton Langlois were first to the line.
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