MELBOURNE Greater (VIC)
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EMERALD SPEEDWAY
It has been reported to us that speedway racing events were being held at a track at Emerald in Victoria, not much is known about this track at the moment, It was a motorcycle speedway, The tracks location could be under, or partially under the Cardinia Dam now, This would date the track back to the early to mid 1960's, prior to the dam being built.
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Dave Barry recalls: At the time in the 1950's as a boy i convinced my parents to sign an application form to buy a 250 BSA motorcycle. That was stripped down and in pieces, that bike (that i still own today) i reasembled and taught myself how to ride and slide, imagining that one day i would race motorcycles. As time passed i entered the workforce and began working at Yallourn Tec School. I was introduced to a fellow, Alan Paynter who had in the past been a rider with the Berwick Bandits in Scotland.