ADELAIDE (SA)
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1978 - SPEEDWAY PARK.
Speedway Park came about because of the fact that Rowley Park Speedway in Adelaide was closing at the end of the 1978 - 1979 racing season, Work had already commenced on Speedway Park prior to Rowley Park closing.
The ground was broken on the new site in Virginia in 1978 and carried on through to its opening date on the 2nd of November 1979.
1978 - Speedway Park under construction. Photo: Rowley Park Speedway facebook.
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1979 - SPEEDWAY PARK
The 470 yard long clay banked oval was originally run and promoted by the Racing Drivers of South Australia, The name of the venue was retained through until 1996 when the name was changed to Speedway City.
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1979 - RAY GENEVE. Sprintcar's
1979 - Ray Geneve "The Osbourne Park Charger" in his Tognotti on a visit to Adelaide. Photographer: Anthony Loxley.
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1980 - SPEEDWAY PARK. 29th February 1980. |
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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.
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1981 SPEEDWAY PARK. South Australian select v Young England Solo Test team. Sidecars. Speedcars & Sprintcars. 4th December 1981.Pom's beat South Aussie'sSpeedway 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 to HotThe 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 SpeedcarsA 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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Aussie Speedway Memories facebook photo feature
4th December 1982 - John Moyle powering around his home track in Adelaide. Photo: Rod Muir collection.
Vintage Speedway Programmes Australia facebook Pictorial feature
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(Programme Research: Brad Mitchell)
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1982 - EAST COAST SPEEDWAY MONTHLY MAGAZINE. Reported.
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1982 - EAST COAST SPEEDWAY MONTHLY MAGAZINE. Reported.
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1983 - SPEEDWAY PARK. AUSTRALIAN SUPER SEDAN CHAMPIONSHIP. 30th December 1983.
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1986 - JOHN MOYLE. Sprintcar's.
Aussie Speedway Memories facebook Photo feature
1986 - John Moyle's number 69 Gambler sprintcar sits quietly on the trailer, pic taken just prior to John's retirement. Photo: Adrian Maggs collection.
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1988 - NATIONAL SPEEDWAY ILLUSTRATED MAGAZINE. Reported.
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1988 - RAY LACY. Sprintcars.
Allan Nash Racing 51, AUSSIE SPEEDWAY MEMORIES. facebook photo feature
1988 - The Lacy family have turned many laps around the Adelaide oval. Photo: Jason Beer collection.
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Aussie Speedway Memories facebook Photo feature
1988 - Steve Stewart's Super Sedan in the pits at Speedway Park on the night of the Australian Sprintcar Championship. Photo: David Grose collection.
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1994 - SPEEDWAY PARK. South Australia v USA Sedan Challenge. 9th December 1994.South Australia. Team.Peter Drew. [Captain]Trevor Knuckley.Steven Miller.Bill Miller.Rocky Garuso.Graham Cowland.After a fantastic night of racing it was the USA team that came out on top defeating the home town, South Australians.
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USA. Team.John Soares.Charlie Swartz.Scott Bloomquist.Steve Francis. |
Paris Charles Pictorial feature
1994 - Scott Bloomquist in the Australian spec car. Photographer: Paris Charles.
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1996 - SPEEDWAY PARK. FIREBALL DERBY. 1st March 1996 |
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1998 - SPEEDWAY CITY. WEST AUSTRALIA v SOUTH AUSTRALIA JUNIOR SEDAN CUP. 4th January 1998This was a rather large deal at the time, a bunch of kids from West Australia had there cars loaded up on a Autotrans car transporter and shipped to Adelaide for a two night challenge, the Saturday nights racing was at Murray Bridge Speedway, with the Sunday night being at Speedway City.It was smiles all round for the west ozzy kids as they won the series with a comfortable margin.The winning line up of drivers from western Australia included Jason Moyle from Bunbury who went on to race Modified Sedans and Late Model Sedans, Eon Robbinson also from Bunbury who finished speedway at the end of junior's, Brad Wright from Perth who went on to race and play a part in getting the new Pro Modified division off the ground in the west, Melissa Murcott from Perth and Daniel O'Farrell from Bunbury, who both drifted out of speedway at the end of there junior racing.Two notable driver from South Australia that went on to bigger things were Steven Lines who went on to race sprintcars and Anthony Beare who could be rated as the most successful Street Stock driver ever in Australia. |
4th January 1998 |
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2000 - SPEEDWAY CITY. AUSTRALIAN SPRINTCAR CHAMPIONSHIP. 3rd to 5th February 2000. |
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2001 - SPEEDWAY CITY.
In the year 2001 Wendy Turner and Bob Sincock took control of the speedway venue.
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2001 - SPEEDWAY CITY. Australian Speedcar Championship. 22nd to 24th February 2001. |
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2004 - SPEEDWAY CITY. World Series Sprintcars. 26th December 2004. |
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