GERALDTON (WA)
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1964 - GERALDTON HOT ROD CLUB
Back in 1964, a man who ran an auctioneering business thought it was about time Geraldton had a Hot Rod racing track, as it already had a motorcycle scramble track
A meeting of locals was conducted in July of 1964 with a decision being made on the locality of the race track just outside the town boundaries, many of the locals saw this as a way to give their street racing kids a controlled enviroment to race each other.
The man who started it all was the late Mr Jack Whitehouse, he became the clubs first President and in later years the clubs first Life Member.
Mr EG Nairn of Dongara the use of a 10 acre gravel pit on his property Howatharra but for some reason the offer was not accepted.
At a meeting on the 20th of September 1964 the Geraldton Hot Rod Club was formed, at the time Geraldton was the only know Hot Rod Track outside Perth,
The original track was built on a property owned by Penny Pirrottima, The Geraldton office of Mobil Oil Australia Ltd , met the costs of forming and grading the track, while volenteers like Bernard Clinch and Vic Baskerville loaned equipment, this track would be known as Moonyoonooka.
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1965 - TIME TRIALS BEGIN
On the 28th of Febuary 1965 the first time trials were held on the dirt track, the ruling of the day was all drivers must have at least 15 laps experience before being able to race, as it turned out the club had seven trial runs.
During these first years of racing many brands of cars were used from FJ Holdens, Ford Pilots, Ford Mercurey's, Chevrolet's, Dodge's, Jaguar's and Plymouth.
Many of the cars racing at the time did so without fenders and bonnets, the cooling systems in the cars were fitted with a 5 gallon drum as a radiator.
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1965 - JACK WHITEHOUSE
The first car on the Geraldton track was a shortened American Ford Pilot, Jack phurchased this car from a Forrestfield Racer in Bob Fleet, as well as Bill Bursill, Bob Oliver, Chris Clarkson, Joe Miragliotta, Ray Reynolds, Butch Hadley and Rod Baskerville
Local man Wally Bawden used to charge 10 pounds to make and fit a roll cage, like many Hot Rod towns of the day the Police would allow the race cars to be towed to the track on the end of a ridged bar or a tow rope,
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1965 - APRIL 11th
Geraldton held its first full scale meeting on the 11th of April 1965, racing would continue at the track up until 1966 when the owner would lease out the property for agriculture and the club would have to move, The last meeting was on the 15th of May in 1966, it was a championship event to be apart of the Sunshine Festival.
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1966 - THE NEW TRACK IS BORN
The new Geraldton site was purchased in 1966 from Mr Joe Marsden, the site was 20 acres, work commenced on the track with the aid of dynamite as the area was full of granite, part of the granite face was used as a natural saftey fence with part of the gravel pit used as a spectator veiwing platform.
On the 6th of November 1966 the New track was officialy opened, also on the day the Geraldton Motor Cycle Club would join in and hold some events.
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1968 - GERALDTON SPEEDWAY
1968 - Photo: Des King collection.
1968 - AUSTRALASIAN ROAD & TRACK REPORTED
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The photo's above were not taken at Geraldton, they were used by the magazine to simply promote the event.
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1969 - BRIAN THOMAS
Geraldton City Speedway facebook photo feature
1969 - Brian Thomas back when it all began. Photo: Cherie Thomas.
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1970 - GERALDTON GUARDIAN REPORTED
15th October 1970
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Photo's David Rees collection.
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1969 > 1971 - GERALDTON SPEEDWAY SLIDESHOW
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1974 - GERALDTON SPEEDWAY
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1978 - PETER NEWMAN SUPERMODIFIED
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1983 - PETER NEWMAN SPRINTCAR
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1985 - PETER NEWMAN LIMITED SPRINTCAR
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1988 - GERALDTON SPEEDWAY PROGRAMME SLIDESHOW
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1989 - GERALDTON SPEEDWAY PROGRAMME SLIDESHOW
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1990 - GERALDTON SPEEDWAY PROGRAMME SLIDESHOW
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1991 - GERALDTON SPEEDWAY PROGRAMME SLIDESHOW
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1992 - GERALDTON SPEEDWAY PROGRAMME SLIDESHOW
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1995 - SUN CITY OPEN WHEEL DEAL
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1995 - GERALDTON SPEEDWAY PROGRAMME SLIDESHOW
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1996 - GERALDTON SPEEDWAY PROGRAMME SLIDESHOW
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1998 - GERALDTON SPEEDWAY PROGRAMME SLIDESHOW
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1999 - GERALDTON SPEEDWAY PROGRAMME SLIDESHOW
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2000 - GERALDTON SPEEDWAY PROGRAMME SLIDESHOW
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2001 - GERALDTON SPEEDWAY PROGRAMME SLIDESHOW
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2002 - GERALDTON SPEEDWAY PROGRAMME SLIDESHOW
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2003 - GERALDTON SPEEDWAY PROGRAMME SLIDESHOW
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2004 - GERALDTON SPEEDWAY PROGRAMME SLIDESHOW
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2005 - GERALDTON SPEEDWAY PROGRAMME SLIDESHOW
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2006 - GERALDTON SPEEDWAY PROGRAMME SLIDESHOW
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2007 - GERALDTON SPEEDWAY PROGRAMME SLIDESHOW
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2008 - GERALDTON SPEEDWAY PROGRAMME SLIDESHOW
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2009 - GERALDTON SPEEDWAY PROGRAMME SLIDESHOW
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2011 - GERALDTON SPEEDWAY PROGRAMME SLIDESHOW
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2012 - GERALDTON SPEEDWAY PROGRAMME SLIDESHOW
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2013 - GERALDTON SPEEDWAY 23rd November |
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2013 - GERALDTON SPEEDWAY PROGRAMME SLIDESHOW
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2014 - GERALDTON SPEEDWAY PROGRAMME SLIDESHOW
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2015 - GERALDTON SPEEDWAY PROGRAMME SLIDESHOW
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2016 - GERALDTON SPEEDWAY MIDWEST CHAMPIONSHIP
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Geraldton Speedway held there annual Midwest Championships over the Easter Long weekend in 2016.
2016 - WEST COAST SPEEDCARSThe Perth based Speedcar club mark this on there calander as a feature event for the season, numbers were down this year for various reasons, Current Club champion Kevin Myles in the V4 monster was a non starter after suffering tow vehicle problems on the way to the event.
The surprise return of a previous hard charger to the field was Greg Day in a very nice Gherti powered machine, Greg paced himself well through the meeting often coming from the rear to finish on the podium.
Speedcar feature results
Welcome back to Speedcar racing Greg Day
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Gary Mann from the West Coast club is currently building a new Honda powered car, For now he is still running the Sigma powered machine that he has run in previous years.
Greg Day took advantage of an offer to race this very smart looking number 10 machine to end up with 3rd place on the podium. |
3rd Greg Day - Top Dog Garry Mann - 2nd place Dennis Sparnon
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2017 - GERALDTON SPEEDWAY LIMITED SPRINTARS KING OF THE HILL 28th January 2017
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Saturday the 28th of January Geraldton Speedway hosted the running of the King of the Hill, The programme feature Limited Sprintcars as well as a support programme of Speedcars Super 6 Sedans, Super Mods and Formula 125's.
The weather was not kind to the Geraldton Club, rain delayed the start of the meeting, but the meeting did go ahead.
Some of the fields were depleted because of the weather, taking in the amount of traveling that was envolved for some drivers.
LIMITED SPRINTCARSFeature results
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2017 - GERALDTON SPEEDWAY KING OF THE HILL SPEEDCAR SLIDESHOW
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2017 - GERALDTON SPEEDWAY KING OF THE HILL SUPER MOD SLIDESHOW
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2017 - GERALDTON SPEEDWAY KING OF THE HILL PRODUCTION SEDAN SLIDESHOW
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2017 - GERALDTON SPEEDWAY KING OF THE HILL SUPER SIX SLIDESHOW
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2017 - GERALDTON SPEEDWAY KING OF THE HILL FORMULA 125 SLIDESHOW
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2017 - NEW TRACK LIGHTING FOR GERALDTON SPEEDWAY
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2017 - GERALDTON SPEEDWAY WA SUPERMOD COUNTRY ROUND 11Tth February 2017
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2017 GERALDTON SPEEDWAY SUPERMOD SLIDESHOW 11th February 2017
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2017 - GERALDTON SPEEDWAY JUNIOR SEDAN SLIDESHOW 11th February 2017
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2017 - GERALDTON SPEEDWAY FORMULA 125 SLIDESHOW 11th February 2017
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2017 - GERALDTON SPEEDWAY PRODUCTION SEDAN SLIDESHOW 11th February 2017
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2017 - WEST AUSTRALIAN LIMITED SPRINTCAR CHAMPIONSHIP
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Geraldton Speedway hosted the 2016 2017 West Australian Limited Sprintcar Championship on the 1st of April 2017.
Feature results
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2017 - GERALDTON SPEEDWAY JUNIOR SEDANS
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2017 - GERALDTON SPEEDWAY FORMULA 125 SLIDESHOW
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2018 - GERALDTON SPEEDWAY 17th March |
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2018 - GERALDTON SPEEDWAY 27th October |
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2018 - GERALDTON SPEEDWAY 17th NovemberFeatured on the night was round 2 of the West Australian Modified Sedan Series.
The support program came in the form of Production Sedans and Juniors.
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2018 - GERALDTON SPEEDWAY MODIFIED SEDAN SLIDESHOW 17th November 2018
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2018 - GERALDTON SPEEDWAY LIMITED SPRINTCAR SLIDESHOW 17th November 2018
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2018 - GERALDTON SPEEDWAY PRODUCTION SEDAN SLIDESHOW 17th November 2018
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2018 - GERALDTON SPEEDWAY SUPERMOD SLIDESHOW 17th November 2018
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2018 - GERALDTON SPEEDWAY JUNIOR SEDAN SLIDESHOW 17th November 2018
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2018 - GERALDTON SPEEDWAY FORMULA 125 SLIDESHOW 17th November 2018
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2018 -GERALDTON SPEEDWAY 8th December 2018 |
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2018 - GERALDTON SPEEDWAY LIMITED SPRINTCARS SLIDESHOW 8th December 2018
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2018 - GERALDTON SPEEDWAY JUNIOR SEDAN SLIDESHOW 8th December 2018
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2018 - GERALDTON SPEEDWAY PRODUCTION SEDAN SLIDESHOW 8th December 2018
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2018 - GERALDTON SPEEDWAY FORMULA 125 SLIDESHOW 8th December 2018
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2018 - GERALDTON SPEEDWAY PRODUCTION SIZZLE 29th December 2018
The Geraldton Speedway Club hosted there 19th annual Production Sizzle at the Geraldton Speedway on the 29th of December 2018, The support program was made up of Junior Sedans and Limited Sprintcars.
Kane McDiarmid drove with perfection.