KARRATHA (WA)
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1974 - NICKOL BAY SPEEDWAY
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1974 - NICKOL BAY SPEEDWAY OPENING 31st March 1974
The crowd gathered at the Nickol Bay Speedway for its Opening Day on March 31 saw some spectacular Racing.
31st March 1974 - Dennis King leading the field during a race on opening day. Following in second position is Gary Adams and third John Lorantas.
Despite the hot conditions performances were of a high standard
Published April 1974
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1975 - HAMMERSLEY NEWSPAPER REPORTED
West Coast Speedway News Past and Present at Current tracks feature
11th July 1975 - Keith Rickmans car spins out of the race and hits the bank, throwing up a cloud of dust during the meeting. Photographer: unknown.
11th July 1975 - re-search by Allan Baker. West Coast Speedway News.
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1977 - NICKOL BAY SPEEDWAY 24th June 1977
24th June 1977 - The Supermodified's round the bend at the Nickol Bay Speedway, Left to right Tip McPhee, Geoff Norris and Adrian Norris. Photographer: unknown.
re-search by Allan Baker. West Coast Speedway News.
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1983 - NICKOL BAY SPEEDWAY SIDECARS
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1987 - NICKOL BAY SPEEDWAY SUPER SEDAN SLIDESHOW
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1989 - NORTH WEST TELEGRAPH REPORTED
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1989 - WASCF MODIFIED SEDAN CHAMPIONSHIP
1989 - ,NORTH WEST TELEGRAPH REPORTED
1989 - Fastest of the North West drivers was Bruce Judd in his LJ Torana GTR-XU1. Photographer: unknown.
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1989 - NORTH WEST TELEGRAPH NEWSPAPER REPORTED
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1995 - NICKOL BAY SPEEDWAY Solo's.
FRMedia Photo feature
1995 - Photo: FR Media.
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1995 - NICKOL BAY SPEEDWAY Sidecar's.
FRMedia Photo feature
1995 - Photo: FR Media.
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West Coast Speedway News feature
The crew of Eddy Gobby's sprintcar Andrew Jarvis and Mark Boyce on the job as usual photo's Allan Baker.
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West Coast Speedway News feature
1999 - NICKOL BAY SPEEDWAY SPRINTCAR FEATURE
Team Snelling in the North West
1999 - Bunbury Speedway director and racer Des Ferris pictured before and after a sprintcar tear-up
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2015 - JORJ & JAYMEE PARKS - Junior Sedan's
2015 - Jorj and Jaymee Parks have travelled extensively from there home in Broome this year.
2015 - That finger means a feature win to Jorg Parks in the McCorry Brown Earthmoving Junior.
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2017 - NORTHWEST SPRINTCAR STAMPEDEKarratha's Nickol Bay speedway once again hosted its annual North West Sprintcar Stampede over the weekend of the 16th and 17th of June 2017, winner of the first nights sprintcar feature was Kaiden Manders from the Rockingham area.
Winner of the 2nd night feature was Allan Nash from Perth
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Photos: Ashleigh Herbert Photography |