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
re-search by Allan Baker.West Coast Speedway News.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
(use controls to pause - forward or reverse 1 image)
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1989 - NORTH WEST TELEGRAPH REPORTED
Saturday night saw the first race meeting for the year at the Nickol Bay Circuit8th March 1998 |
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1989 - WASCF MODIFIED SEDAN CHAMPIONSHIP
1989 - ,NORTH WEST TELEGRAPH REPORTED
Bunbury's Ivan Bourke take the win in the Escort.Photo: Mal Cooper. |
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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 REPORTED
2nd August 1989 |
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1995 - NICKOL BAY SPEEDWAY SOLO ACTION
1995 - Photo: FR Media.
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1995 - NICKOL BAY SPEEDWAY SIDECAR ACTION
1995 - Photo: FR Media.
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West Coast Speedway News feature
1995 SPRINTCAR CLASSICNickol Bay Speedway hosted the 1995 Ansett Australia Sprint Car Classic on the 4th of June 1995, Eddy Gobby would take out the event with a powerfull display of driving throughout the championship.
Shane Harris number 21 Trostle. Photo: Allan Baker. |
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The crew of Eddy Gobby's sprintcar Andrew Jarvis and Mark Boyce on the job as usual photo's Allan Baker.
1995 - Eddy Gobby. Photo: Allan Baker. |
1995 - Scott Milling. Photo: Allan Baker. |
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West Coast Speedway News feature
1999 - NICKOL BAY SPEEDWAY SPRINTCAR FEATURE
Team Snelling in the North West
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1999 - Bunbury Speedway director and racer Des Ferris pictured before and after a sprintcar tear-up
1999 - Ron Krikke. Photo: Allan Baker.
1999 - Brook David from Darwin. Photo: Allan Baker
Photo: Allan Baker |
1999 - Robbie Farr & Max Dumsney. Photo: Allan Baker.
1999 - Kevin Couzens. Photo: Allan Baker
Photo: Allan Baker |
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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 |