Oran Park is being torn up

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Oran Park is being torn up; Sad day for Motorsport
Topic Started: Feb 8 2010, 01:40 PM (31 Views)
galahs	Feb 8 2010, 01:40 PM Post #1
Four of a Kind Posts: 36,467 Group: Admin Member #2 Joined: 27 September 2005	LENNY ANN LOW January 23, 2010 After 48 years of speeding cars, motorcycles and trucks Oran Park Raceway will chase some of its final laps this weekend. Motorsport stars such as Sir Jack Brabham, Sir Stirling Moss, the formula one driver Mark Webber and nine-time Bathurst winner Peter Brock once roared around the 2.6-kilometre track on Sydney's south-western fringe - but its gates will close on Tuesday, making way for 5500 new homes. Private practice days this weekend and driver training events on Monday end its tenure as one of Australia's most-loved, and most challenging, tracks. The track veteran John Bando, who raced his Ventura Clubman there from 1966, said losing the circuit was as much a blow to racing as it was to establishing driver safety. ''People say, 'Oh they're all mad racers there' but that's not it,'' he said. ''There's been years of driver education projects there. They should take every high school student there, have a display of crashed cars and say, 'This could be you'. Let them have a feel of what it's like when the roadways are wet.'' The racing complex, which began as a gravel circuit built by enthusiastic car club racers in the early 1960s, has hosted V8 Supercars, the Australian Grand Prix, go karts, motocross, drag racing, rally driving and countless car club events. But mourning motoring enthusiasts can keep a piece of the track close by buying circuit fixtures, on sale until the gates close. Jeff Boulous, manager of Oran Park Raceway, said the track's ''old-school'' Shell petrol sign had triggered ''a four-figure offer'' but fans could still snap up two former commentary towers, scrutineering booths, ticket-selling sheds and the circuit's iconic bridge. The alignment of the demolished track's main straight will remain for a residential road and streets and parks are to be named after such notable racers as Wayne Gardner, Norm Beechey, Lella Lombardi and Mick Doohan.



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Raptor	Feb 8 2010, 11:29 PM Post #5
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andrew29	Feb 9 2010, 02:29 AM Post #6
. Posts: 6,363 Group: Full Member Member #330 Joined: 27 June 2006	RIP Oran Park, was actually a pretty good track for watching the race's live. Because its flat grass inside the track you could see every car all the time



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