What's your favourite Australian Championship race track?

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Road Racing

Road racing is booming, thanks to the exploits of Australian riders on the prestigious MotoGP and world Superbike scene. There are many different categories of road racing, from stock-standard production machines right through to the rapid-fire Superbike and Supersport machines.

So heres the thing, which track is your favourite race track and would like to see more of and why?

NSW:

AMAROO PARK RACEWAY--Annangrove 1.93 km. paved road course-- on Annangrove Rd., off Old Northern & Windsor Rds., 40 km NW of Sydney-- Was home to Super Touring Cars, GT, Formula Ford, Sportscars-- note: track closed in 1998

BATHURST MOUNT PANORAMA--Bathurst 6.213 km paved road course-- SW of Bathurst at Mount Panorama, 210 km W of Sydney on Great Western Hwy.-- ATCC V8 Supercars & V8 Lites

EASTERN CREEK INT'L. RACEWAY 3.93 km paved road course-- W of Parramatta on M4 to Reservoir Rd., then left on Great Western Hwy. to Horsley Rd.-- ATCC V8 Supercars

ORAN PARK RACEWAY--Narellan 2.62 & 1.96 km paved road courses-- corner of Oran Park & Northern Rds., 45 km S of Sydney-- Formula Holden, ATCC V8 Supercars & V8 Lites

WAKEFIELD MOTORSPORT PARK--Goulburn 2.4 km. paved road course-- ATCC V8 Lites

ACT:

CANBERRA STREET CIRCUIT--Canberra paved street course-- annual (2nd weekend in June)-- Formula Holden, ATCC V8 Supercars-- note: track opened in 2000

Queensland:


GOLD COAST--Surfer's Paradise paved road course-- annual (last weekend in Oct.)-- CART Champ Cars

LAKESIDE INT'L. RACEWAY--Petrie paved road course-- ATCC V8 Lites

QUEENSLAND RACEWAY--Ipswich 3.12 km. paved road course-- ATCC V8 Supercars

WILLOWBANK RACEWAY paved road course-- Super Touring Cars

South Australia:

ADELAIDE INT'L. RACEWAY--Virginia paved oval-- on Supple Rd.-- Cup Cars, Sportsmen, Street Stocks, Legends

ADELAIDE STREET CIRCUIT--Adelaide paved street course-- Formula Holden, ATCC V8 Supercars, APLMS Sports Cars

MALLALA MOTOR SPORT PARK paved airport course-- Formula Holden, ATCC V8 Lites

RIVERLAND SPEEDWAY--Renmark dirt oval-- Saturdays (monthly)-- Super Sedans, V6 Sprints, Modified Production Sedans, Sportsman Sedans, Formula 500, Street Stocks

Tasmania:

BASKERVILLE RACEWAY 2.01 km. paved road course-- 28 km. N of Hobart-- Formula Vee, Sports Sedans, Street Stocks, Historic Cars

SYMMONS PLAINS INT'L. RACEWAY 2.41 km. paved road course-- on Midland Hwy., 34 km. S of Launceston-- Super Touring Cars, Formula Vee, Sports Sedans, Street Stocks, Historic Ca

Victoria:

ALBERT PARK--Melbourne 5.302 km. paved road course-- just S of central Melbourne-- FIA Formula 1

CALDER PARK NATIONAL CIRCUIT--Keilor 2.28 & 1.45 km. paved road courses-- 25 km NW of Melbourne on Calder Freeway-- Formula Holden, ATCC V8 Supercars

CALDER PARK THUNDERDOME--Keilor 1.83 km. paved oval-- 25 km NW of Melbourne on Calder Freeway-- NASCAR Stocks, AUSCAR Stocks, HQ Holdens-- 1/4 mi. paved oval-- Legends

PHILLIP ISLAND GRAND PRIX CIRCUIT--Cowes 4.45 km. paved road course-- on Phillip Island, 128 km. S of Melbourne-- Formula Holden, ATCC V8 Supercars & V8 Lites

SANDOWN INT'L. MOTOR RACING CIRCUIT--Springvale 3.91 & 3.1 km. paved road courses-- 25 km. SE of Melbourne on Princes Hwy.-- ATCC V8 Supercars

WINTON MOTOR RACEWAY--Benalla 2.03 km. paved road course-- on Old Hume Hwy. off Rt. 31 (Hume Freeway), 10 km. N of Benalla-- Formula Holden, ATCC V8 Supercars & V8 Lites

Western Australia:

BARBAGALLO RACEWAY--Wanneroo 2.41 & 1.76 km. paved road courses-- on Wattle Ave. (East) off Wanneroo & Pinjar Rds., 35 km. N of Perth-- ATCC V8 Supercars

[Jeff]

Phillip island

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well being victorian i would have to say all vic tracks are good :D

[sanoptic]

AMAROO PARK RACEWAY was the home of many Castrol six Hour races & "was" the best track in NSW . It had tons of atmosphere & was also a fun track to ride [did a few Stay upright course's there ]

Now that Oran Park is closing i.m.o there are no good tracks left in NSW & that includes Eastern Creek.

cheers

[Bandit Tourist]

For me there is only one track suitable for fast clean motorcycle racing in Australia. Phillip Island, excellant runoffs, great unjualating landscape. Good drive on the main straight is acheived only by starting your raceline sequence from Honda Corner. Variations in track temperature, ambient temperature and wheather conditions. I guess thats why so many teams come out here to do testing during the off season because of all these variations.

Oran Park was OK but very rough off of the raceline.

Wakefield is good, excellant as a spectator venue. Makes for good close racing. I'd love to race it on a 250cc or an old 350cc.

Amaroo wasn't really suitable for modern motorcycle racing especially with the off camber back turn and the railing fence on the outside of the straights although I did see guys using the fence as a burm coming onto the start finish straight quite often.

Eastern Creek is lovely place for your wife to drive her sports car around, you know with the roof folded down.

Bathurst get rid of the concrete and bring back an era. Maybe we could all ride out there and watch TT racing. Bathurst really is an iconic track but rider safety has to come first.

I'm interested to see how this Homebush round of the V8 supercars goes, that could be another great venue for TT racing.

Hey have I told you how much I love TT racing??

[sanoptic]

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Bathurst get rid of the concrete and bring back an era. Maybe we could all ride out there and watch TT racing. Bathurst really is an iconic track but rider safety has to come first.


Yep,
I remember the good old days...LOL
Every Easter we went to Bathurst for the Police riots ,getting drunk for the whole weekend ,the mountain parties the fireworks ,oh & the bike races.

Good times

[Bandit Tourist]

Yep,
I remember the good old days...LOL
Every Easter we went to Bathurst for the Police riots ,getting drunk for the whole weekend ,the mountain parties the fireworks ,oh & the bike races.

Good times

How about the Castrol 6 Hour back in the seventies, when the race was won by a Suzuki (GSX1000 I think) and then it was disqualified because the horn had been moved from is standard production position.

[sanoptic]

I remember that,it was Joe Eastmure on a Suzuki 315 disqualified.
Those 6 hour races at Amaroo Park in the early years were full of controversy.
Don't remember the year but a BMW was outed for having extra spacers in the forks to increase ground clearance & plenty of other bikes were not exactly bog stock either.
It was a great series.

[Bandit Tourist]

I first spotted my beautiful wife at the Castrol 6 Hour she was working for one of the teams as a lap scorer and time keeper. She looked hot in that team "T"shirt, still does. Anyway!!

The old speedway meetings in the Hunter Valley were always good for a bit of controversy to, the odd punch up off and on the track. As a kid I remeber two guys at Heddon Geta punching and kicking one another during the race and after the race they through their bikes down and continued trading blows. I guess things haven't changed that much in speedway.