FINLEY (NSW)
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1973 - BOOMERANG RACEWAY
The Finley and District Auto Club established another short circuit track in June of 1973 called "Boomerang Raceway" as Finley was located on the "Boomerang Way" Inaugural President was Tom Pyle who remained in the chair throughout the life of the club, a remarkable achievement, Bob Brooks who owned "Boomerang Motors" in Finley was the chairman of the joint Speedway Management Committee, together with the local Apex Club which was also instrumental in assisting with the meetings.
(Editorial Ray Read)
Photo: from a local newspaper - Ray Read collection.
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1974 - BOOMERANG RACEWAY
1974 - A large variety of race cars competed at the Boomerang Raceway each meeting. Photo: T Pyke.
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1975 - BOOMERANG RACEWAY
1975 - Linda Campbel and Alex James on presentation night. Photo: T Pyle.
1976 - Big Bill Aurisch in the Valiant leads Kevin Annett in the Monaro and Tony Nicholas in the Torana. Photo: Ray Read collection. |
Finley started as a 1/2 mile short circuit and in 1975 the club relaunched the track as an almost perfect 1/4 mile oval speedway. It was a pleasure to race on and attracted drivers from N.E.H.R.A, Ballarat, Bendigo,Melbourne, O.M.S.R.H.R.A, Sydney and Northern NSW, Fred Sutherland held the new track record for Saloons with 23 seconds, Shepparton's Kevin Barnier took the new Open Wheelers record at 24 seconds, An annual pilgrimage by Sydney's Mini Modified brigade was a feature of the June long weekend at Finley. By 1976 the Finley and District Auto Club and Boomerang Speedway were thriving, with the running of an extremely successful day's racing on June 13, Feature of the day was a $1,000 race for Modified Saloons. To give some idea of the quality and geographic areas of the cars competing the main race was won by Tony Nicholas (NEHRA 1 supercharged Torana) from Kevin Parkinson (Ballarat V8 Kingswood) and Kevin Annett (Portland V8 Monaro) The place-getters in the Standard Saloons were all EH Holdens-Ron Williams (Echuca) from Geoff Collins (Shepparton) and Ern Overall (Ballarat)
Finley, a small club was hard pressed by some of the local NSW Police requirements regarding (sometimes unreasonable) issues
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associated with spectator safety. To upgrade the facilities to comply with the required new safety fence specifications was not fiancially viable and Boomerang Speedway closed in 1979.
(Editorial Ray Read)
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1975 - BOOMERANG SPEEDWAY SLIDESHOW
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1976 1977 - BRYAN LIERSCH Production Sedan's
Old Motor Racing Photographs - Australia facebook feature.
Matt Liersch recalls: Bryan Liersch in a fairly well known FJ Holden around the Victorian Riverina area, The car was run after by Col Wackert with a supercharged grey motor, It remained almost unbeatable and was banned soon after, cut up and returned to the earth.