MELBOURNE (VIC)
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1950's - CALDER PARK RACEWAY
The Calder Park Thunderdome started started life as a Dirt Racing Track, simular in shape to the current sealed circuit, carved into a paddock on a local farmers property, Clayton petrol station owner Patrick Hawthorn was one of the locals that built and raced at the track.
It is beleived that this track was built over when the Thunderdome was built.
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1987 - CALDER THUNDERDOMEThe Thunderdome is a 1.8km or 1.1mile Tri Oval paved speedway with twenty four degree banking on turns one to four, In the seventy's the owner of Calder Park Raceway, Bob Jane was visiting the USA and researching the posibility of building the first Nascar track outside of America, by 1981 a deal had been done with Bill France Jnr to bring Nascar to Australia.
The construction costing many millions of dollars started in 1983 and the track was completed and opened on the 3rd of January 1987.
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Jeff Oldfield photo feature
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1988 USA LATE MODEL SEDANS FEATURE
O V A L T R A C K M A G A Z I N E R E P O R T E D
Dick Johnson 17 Harry Goularte USA 14 Photo: unknown.
(use controls to pause - forward or reverse 4 images)
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1988 - CALDER THUNDERDOME. GOODYEAR 250 & YELLA TERRA 200. 14th February 1988. |
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1988 - CALDER THUNDERDOME. NASCAR 500. 20th - 28th February 1988. |
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1988 - CALDER THUNDERDOME 1st November 1988 |
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1988 - CALDER THUNDERDOME December 1988 |
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1989 - BARRY BLAKE
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1990 - CALDER THUNDERDOME 5th & 6th May 1990 |
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1990 - BARRY BLAKE
1990 - Barry Blake from Western Australia in his Buick Nascar at the Thunderdome. Photo: Barry Blake collection.
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1991 - CALDER THUNDERDOME 2nd & 3rd March 1991 |
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1992 - CALDER THUNDERDOME 1st March 1992 |
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1992 - BARRY BLAKE Nascar's
1992 - West Australian Dirt Track specialists Barry Blake a true privateer in the expensive NASCAR game. Photo's: Barry & Cindy Blake collection.
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1992 - CALDER THUNDERDOME 11th October 1992 |
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1993 - CALDER THUNDERDOME 14th February 1993 |
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1993 - GUNS & ROSES CONCERT
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1993 - CALDER THUNDERDOME 10th October 1993 |
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1994 - CALDER THUNDERDOME 13th February 1994 |
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1994 - CALDER THUNDERDOME 1994 / 1995 |
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1995 - CALDER THUNDERDOME 11th February 1995 |
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1995 - CALDER THUNDERDOME 22nd April 1995 |
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1996 - CALDER THUNDERDOME 10th February 1996 |
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1996 - CALDER THUNDERDOME 20th April 1996 |
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1996 - CALDER THUNDERDOME 11th & 12th October 1996 |
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1996 - CALDER THUNDERDOME 15th & 16th November 1996 |
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1996 - CALDER THUNDERDOME 27th & 28th December 1996 |
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1997 - CALDER THUNDERDOME 7th & 8th February 1997 |
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1997 - CALDER THUNDERDOME 7th & 8th March 1997 |
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1998 - CALDER THUNDERDOME 28th December 1998 |
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1998 - CALDER THUNDERDOME 1998 |
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2012 - CALDER THUNDERDOME. Walkabout.
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2018 - CALDER THUNDERDOME. Walkabout.
