BUNBURY (WA)
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1972 - BUNBURY SPEEDWAY CONSTRUCTION
With the closure of blicks raceway the Bunbury Car Club found itself without a racetrack,after considering many sites it was decided the new Bunbury speedway would be built at its present site on the North Boyanup Road.
Twenty two acres of swamp land was cleared and filled to obtain the five hundred and ten metre arena with banked spectator stands, permanent brick buildings including canteen's toilets, and admission boxes.
The initial plans were to build a day time speedway to service the local members and to host inter club racing. however its was soon a reality that with the leadership of President John Hudson and Bunbury's enaugral promoter Tom Dillon that this venue was going to rival any speedway in Australia.
In March of nineteen seventy two the lease was signed with the Bunbury Town Council and the clearing started, by May of ninteen seventy two Colin Resta and George Lane moved in the earth moving equipment from mainly Piacentini's,Catalano's,VB Nani's,Max Shepherd and Roman Kozerski, many other contractors made there equipment available, these machines were mainly operated by employees of the company's that volunteered many hours of work to the project, Those included Frank McCaul who worked for Alec Eller a cartage contractor in Bunbury, The initial plans were drawn up in the kitchen of George lane on a piece of three ply and shortley after George and Colin Resta marked out the track using a length of rope on a stick in the infield to make sure that both corners were identical.
The timber track fence and lighting was installed by many volunteers, the pit gates and latch systems that were built by Dan Kalpakoff was fitted.
Extensive lighting was erected throughout the spectator area,pits,carparks and around the race track, all twenty two acres was utilised with a large pit area and masive car parks,in the early years competitor numbers were so great that some racecars had to be pitted in the public parking area, also the public had to angle park both sides of the North Boyanup Road back to the airport and south past Lilydale Road, Centenary Road was also full, the machinary used was very modern for its time but would have been hard work on todays standard's,all these machines and operators would have to do their days work for the boss and then head of to the swamp to build a speedway.
Twenty two acres of swamp land was cleared and filled to obtain the five hundred and ten metre arena with banked spectator stands, permanent brick buildings including canteen's toilets, and admission boxes.
The initial plans were to build a day time speedway to service the local members and to host inter club racing. however its was soon a reality that with the leadership of President John Hudson and Bunbury's enaugral promoter Tom Dillon that this venue was going to rival any speedway in Australia.
In March of nineteen seventy two the lease was signed with the Bunbury Town Council and the clearing started, by May of ninteen seventy two Colin Resta and George Lane moved in the earth moving equipment from mainly Piacentini's,Catalano's,VB Nani's,Max Shepherd and Roman Kozerski, many other contractors made there equipment available, these machines were mainly operated by employees of the company's that volunteered many hours of work to the project, Those included Frank McCaul who worked for Alec Eller a cartage contractor in Bunbury, The initial plans were drawn up in the kitchen of George lane on a piece of three ply and shortley after George and Colin Resta marked out the track using a length of rope on a stick in the infield to make sure that both corners were identical.
The timber track fence and lighting was installed by many volunteers, the pit gates and latch systems that were built by Dan Kalpakoff was fitted.
Extensive lighting was erected throughout the spectator area,pits,carparks and around the race track, all twenty two acres was utilised with a large pit area and masive car parks,in the early years competitor numbers were so great that some racecars had to be pitted in the public parking area, also the public had to angle park both sides of the North Boyanup Road back to the airport and south past Lilydale Road, Centenary Road was also full, the machinary used was very modern for its time but would have been hard work on todays standard's,all these machines and operators would have to do their days work for the boss and then head of to the swamp to build a speedway.
1972 - BUNBURY SPEEDWAY CONSTRUCTION SLIDESHOW
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Hi fellow Speedway nutter's please let us know if you or any of your friends or family members were a part of the construction of Bunbury Speedway way back in 1972, so we can update the list. cheers.
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Bunbury Car Club Speedway Construction Volunteer's
Baker VernBarr BillBickerton LloydBurke IvanCatalano BillCatalano JoeDillon TomDorsett NormFowler StanGardiner BradNannette HardingHarding RobertHilliger JohnHillman BrianHillman CliffHillman IanHills HaroldHudson JohnHudson SydKalpakoff DanKelderman Peter |
General ConstructionGeneral ConstructionGuarantorGeneral ConstructionEarthworksEarthworksSpeedway Manager & VisionaryGuarantorGuarantorElectrical ConstructionCateringGeneral ConstructionGeneral Construction & PhotographerGeneral ConstructionGeneral ConstructionGeneral ConstructionFencing ContractorBunbury Car Club PresidentGuarantorTrack Gates ConstructionVenue Fencing |
Kennedy BrianKozyrski RomanLane GeorgeLane Garnet SnrLee BrianLydiate BillMalatesta FrankManea Ernie DrManolas RossMcKenzie DickNani VinceNulsen GeorgePiacentini AlbertResta ColinStone RalphTripplet MerrickWallace TerryWheat Graeme |
General ConstructionGuarantorPlanning and EarthworksGeneral ConstructionGeneral ConstructionGeneral ConstructionGauarantorGuarantorGuarantorGuarantorGuarantorGuarantorEarthworksPlanning and EarthworksGuarantorGeneral ConstructionGuarantorGeneral Construction |
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Bunbury City Speedway: Mission Statement
To foster strong family value's within the youth of our chosen sport of Speedway Racing, To provide a safe venue and enviroment for our youth to skillfully learn the art of Driving Cars and Riding Bikes.
To provide program's within the club to attract people of all age groups, from toddlers through to retire's.
To conduct race meetings from Club based events Through to World Class International events
To work alongside other local community charity groups to assist them in there fund raising efforts.
To work with Local and State Government directly to promote the South West Region and the state of Western Australia as a Motorsport tourist destination.
To work with the West Australian Speedway Commission and the Department of Sport and Recreation to embrace the Governance required to run the venue in the safest manner possible.
To make the venue available to the Department of Corrections for there prisoner day release teams to work around the venue, thus building there skill levels for when they are released.
To give Business Australia Wide the platform to promote there products and services to the wider community by way of our media network.
To Research, Gather, and make the History of the club available to our Members, Local and State Government departments as well as media outlets to promote motorsport activities within Bunbury.
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Jack Gardiner?? |
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PresidentSecretaryTreasurer |
JA (Pop) Hudson?? |
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