CANBERRA (ACT)
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CANBERRA MOTOR CYCLE CLUB
The Canberra Motorcycle Club was a dirt track based club, that had very little interest in Road Racing, Those Road racers in the ACT at the time had to join one of the New South Wales based clubs such as Bankstown - Wiley Park, Saint George, Willoughby or Annandale - Leichhardt so they could obtain a licience to ride at Sydney's Amaroo Park and Oran Park.
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CANBERRA ROAD RACING CLUB
The local riders found this situation of living in the ACT and being controlled from New South Wales un-workable, so they got together to form there own club, The Canberra Road Racing Club, This would lead to motorcycle racing events being held on a street circuit at Macarthur Park.
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MACARTHUR PARK CIRCUITThe Macarthur Park circuit was to be a perfect street racing circuit, The entire sub-division was brand new with no homes in the area, the road surface was smooth and free from repairs, the whole area had been cleared and free from trees along the circuit's edges.
Just ten months after the formation of the club they held there first open meeting around the 2.8km loop on the 7th of October 19-- with practice on the Saturday and Sunday the 8th of October being the race day.
It has been reported that crowds in excess of three thousand attended on Saturday and around ten thousand on the Sunday.
All racing had ceased by 1981.
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