LAUNCESTON (TAS)
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1958 - JOHN YOUL
John was a regular competitor at the Baskerville circuit that opened in 1958, He also was the owner of a farming property known as Symmons Plains, John leased a paddock on the property to the Light Car Club who built and ran the Symmons Plains International Raceway.
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1960 - SYMMONS PLAINS RACEWAY
Symmons Plains Raceway opened on the 13th of March 1960 and operated succesfuly even though the Longford and Baskerfield circuits were operating
Since the closure of the Longford circuit in the 1968, Symmons Plains Raceway has been the premier motor racing facility in Tasmania. The circuit is one of the longest serving circuit's of the combined history of the Australian Touring Car Championship and the V8 Super Car Championship series, Since 2005 it has hosted the Tasmania Challenge for V8 Super Cars.
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1960 - Opening meeting at Symmons Plains with Leo Geoghegan's Holden in the pits. Photo: Shaun Geoghegan.
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1961 - NORM BAKER
1961 - Norm Baker in his MG.TD with the Buchanan body fitted. Photo: unknown.
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1960's - SYMMONS PLAINS RACEWAY PROGRAMME'S
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1964 - SYMMONS PLAINS RACEWAY
1964 - Photo: Reg Dalwood collection
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1960's - SYMMONS PLAINS RACEWAY PROGRAMMES
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1967 - MAURIE PRICE
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1967 - Maurie Price getting some air under his 48 series, following is Peter Lockley and then the thundering Customline of the "Wild Man" Ray Alford. Photo: unknown.
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1967 - BARRY CASSIDY Sports Sedan
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Barry Cassidy recalls: I was fortunate to have a steer of David Hallam's EH Holden which at the time was Tassie's first "Real" Sports Sedan.
Very quick car in its day, the cylinder head was a work of art, managed to win this race and hand the car back unscathed.
Was the first time id ever driven with proper race tyres, Goodyear Blue Streaks, you had to be cashed up to afford those, ha ha.
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1967 - SYMMONS PLAINS SEDAN CAR ACTION
1967 - Photo's: unknown.
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1967 - EARL WEBSTER
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1970 - GRAHAM PARSONS
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1970 - Graham Parsons in the GT Cortina getting some air time at Symmons Plains. Photo: unknown.
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1972 - SYMMONS PLAINS RACEWAY
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1972 - Allan Moffat in the Mustang hole shots Bob Jane in the Camaro then Geoghan in the Mustang and Beechey in the Holden Monaro. Photo: unknown.
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1972 - NORM BEECHEY
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1972 - Norm Beechey took on all the top drivers in the American built Mustang's and Camaro's in his Australia built HT Holden Monaro, and won many of those races. Photo's: Greg Feltham.
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1982 - SYMMONS PLAINS RACEWAY
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1985 - SYMMONS PLAINS RACEWAY
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1987 - BARRY CASSIDY
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Barry Cassidy recalls: Symmons Plains 1987, driving my friend Phil Howe's turbo Pacer, 500 + hoarse power it was a weapon, a lot of people snickered about the car when we turned up to race it, especially one particular commentator, however they crawled back in their boxes when we blew the field away, it would wheel spin in top gear through the sweeper on the back straight, stoping it, yeah that was another matter ha ha.
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1990 - SYMMONS PLAINS RACEWAY
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1991 - SYMMONS PLAINS RACEWAY PROGRAMME'S
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1992 SYMMONS PLAINS RACEWAY
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1993 - SYMMONS PLAINS RACEWAY PROGRAMME'S
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1994 - SYMMONS PLAINS RACEWAY
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1995 - SYMMONS PLAINS RACEWAY PROGRAMME'S
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1996 - SYMMONS PLAINS RACEWAY PROGRAMME'S
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2004 - SYMMONS PLAINS RACEWAY
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2008 - SYMMONS PLAINS RACEWAY
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2010 - SYMMONS PLAINS RACEWAY
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