CANBERRA (ACT)
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TRALEE SPEEDWAY 1971
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1971 - TRALEE SPEEDWAY 20th February 1971 |
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1971 - TRALEE SPEEDWAY PRESS RELEASE
20th February 1971
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Gary Patterson prangs at Tralee
Photo: Russ Voysey
The man they call the Hostile Hippie "Gary Patterson" has aggrevated an old back injury in a production sedan invition race at Tralee Speedway, Patterson who was driving a borrowed Mustang owned by Bruce Maxwell for the race drove the car into the track wall on the seventh lap, Although he was well strapped in he still managed to jar his spine, The car was dragged infield were Patterson was removed from the car by rescue staff and treated by Ambulance staff.
As a result of the accident Doctors warned Patterson against racing for two months or more, this led to the cancellation of the rest of Paterson's tour of Australia and New Zealand.
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1971 - TRALEE SPEEDWAY 6th March 1971 |
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1971 - TRALEE SPEEDWAY 13th March 1971 |
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1971 - TRALEE SPEEDWAY 20th March 1971 |
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1971 - EASTER SEDAN CAR ACTION
1971 - Geoff Bunder leads Peter Taunton at the Easter meeting at Tralee, check out the crowd. Photo: John Anderson.
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1971 - AUSTRALIAN SPEEDWAY NEWS MAGAZINE REPORTED
7th May 1971
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1971 - DAVE WIGNALL Production Sedan's
1971 - Once more Dave Wignall failed to take the chequered flag in the A grade feature, The time he was second to Howard Revelle. Photo: unknown.
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1971 - PETER PULFORD Production Sedan's
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1971 - TRALEE SPEEDWAY 8th August 1971 |
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Canberra & Southern NSW Speedway Hiistory facebook photo feature.
1971 - George Lodge in the number 3 Monaro Dave Bassett number 3 Volkswagon and Terry Richardson 41 Falcon. Photo: Mac Campbell.
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1971 - TERRY RICHARDSON Production Sedan's
1971 - One of the many Falcon GTHO Shakers that made there way onto the speedway, Terry Richardson at Tralee. Photo: Graham Daley collection.
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1971 - 1972 AUSTRALIAN SEDAN CAR CHAMPIONSHIP 2nd October 1971The first ever Australia Sedan Car Championship under the control of the Australian Saloon Car Federation was held at this venue for the 1971 1972 season and was won by Victoria's Kevin Dalton from Queensland's Alan Butcher and the home town racer David House.
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1st October 1971 |
1971 - AUSTRALIAN SPEEDWAY NEWS NEWSPAPER REPORTED
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Dennis Newlyn reports on our first national saloon car ChampionshipBill Myer Pictorial collection
1971 - Kevin Dalton in the Monara on his way to big win
1971 - Hard fought sedan car action as David House leads West Australian Paul De Lacy through a turn at Tralee Speedway. House, an ACT representative and Tasmanian star Neville Harper finished the 4 heat series level on37 points, However the third place sash was awarded to House after a countback on passing points.
1971 - Tralee ace Max Kennerley has his Regent Body Works Falcon GT running out frontas Bananalander Chris Ede spins his Mini Cooper right in the path of Doug Schultz (Queensland) and Doug Corcoran (Victoria)
1971 - Kevin Dalton chaired to the presentation by his crew.
1971 - Morisset (NSW) Monaro pedaller George Lodge is kept on the job by Queensland's Brian Burke. Bringing up the rear are Don Riley (Tasmania) and John Greene (NSW)
1971 - Action galore as Max Kennerley in the big Falcon and Kevin Dalton both loose control after a hectic fender banging dice.
1971 - In addition to the championship, several other events programmed and fans were provided with plenty of thrills. Here John Edlington (53) sends tyres flying in all directions as Brian Swan (97) and Ken Watt (44) move through on the outside. |
1971 - CARS competing in the 50 lap final of the Australian Championship are positioned on the main straightaway, as drivers are on the infield drawing for race positions. Winner of the 50 lap series final was Queensland,s Allan Butcher.
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1971 - TRALEE SPEEDWAY COCA COLA 600 30th October 1971 |
30th October 1971 |
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1971 - TRALEE SPEEDWAY 13th November 1971 |
13th November 1971 |
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1971 - TRALEE SPEEDWAY NEWS REPORTED
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1971 - PETER TAUNTON Production Sedan's
1971 - ACT driver Peter Taunton in the Mini is being monstered by Neville Harper from Tasmania in the HR Holden.
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1971 - FRASER PARK SPEEDWAY PROGRAMME SLIDESHOW
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1971 - OLE OLSEN Solo's
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