TOOWOOMBA (QLD)
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1958 - MIDDLE RIDGE CIRCUIT
The Middle Ridge circuit was a short lived track, used only three times September of 1958, 1960 and 1961, the circuit was basicly rectangular in shape and was all on sealed bitumin roads. The Toowoomba Auto Club organised these events.
The circuit was 2.6 miles in distance and the racing was in a clockwise direction starting on Stenner Street turning right into Mackenzie Street and right again into Alderley Street, followed by a right into Rowbotham Street, a right back onto Stenner Street and deviasion through Gordon Motors Wiggle back to the start finish.
1958 - Ron Hodgson in the Zephyr is lined up inside the unknown Customline and Lou Kingsley in the FE Holden behind. Photo: Dick Willis.
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*******FORD DEBUT'S************THE FALCON XK******Edsel Falconer was Dealer Principal of Falconer Motors Pty Ltd at the time and he drove a just released XK Falcon in its first race meeting prior to the Ford Company's official introduction to motor sport when Bob Jane & Lou Molina entered the Falcon in the 1960 Armstrong 500 at Phillip Island, this would not be a memorable day for Ford as the car would roll and eventually finish 15th Outright.
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