Diamond Exile 0 Posted January 18, 2005 Hi, I was wondering if anyone could advise some web-sites where I can find out about speedway meetings in Australia. I'm hoping to take a holiday there in March / April time and was wondering if i would be able to take in a meeting. I'll more than likely be taking the east coast tour Melbourne - Sydney - Newcastle - Cairns etc. Any tips would be appreciated! Thanks. Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
KevH 257 Posted January 18, 2005 Does anyone know if there a Test Series planned for Aussie this season? Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
Guest Sir Lunchalot Posted January 18, 2005 In a word Kevin (well three words anyway), no there isn't. Late last season I did hear rumours of either another U21 tour or one of the CL sides having a riding holiday out here but neither came to fruition. It's too expensive to suggest a senior side come out here for tests and nobody is willing to go anywhere near that one. To Diamond Exile, I'm in Melbourne and if you are likely to be here around the right dates send me an email on twofoot123@yahoo.com.au and I'll give you a lift up to Broadford because you will never find it as it's an hour out of town way out in the country. With Broadford the Sundays are the best as they have three classes of solos (A grade, veterans, and classic) three classes of sidecars (100cc, 250cc, and classic) plus some juniors and they are a good day out. The Saturdays are just practice days. Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
KevH 257 Posted January 18, 2005 Thanks for the info Lunchy. Seems a shame that nothings happening on the International scene in Aus, but I doubt if there's another team who could hold a candle to them on their own tracks anyway!!! Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
Diamond Exile 0 Posted January 18, 2005 Thanks for the posts guys, really appreciate the help. I'm going to be putting a plan together over the next few weeks... at the moment i'm likely to travel out around 20th March for 5 weeks or so. I'll come back onto this thread in a couple of weeks once I've got a better idea of a route and dates. Sir Lunchalot, thanks for the offer, hopefuly I'll be in Melbourne when there's a meeting on. Aussie Tjukurpa Mutitjulu Sempi, thanks for the links & research. Cheers! Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
Guest Sir Lunchalot Posted January 19, 2005 Tell us about it Kevin !! We are starved for top level speedway here and it's all jam packed into December / January (if that) and even then we don't get all the top guys riding. i went to all four rounds of the Oz titles and apart from Gosford where the weather looked dodgy the crowds were huge. I heard an unofficial crowd figure for the midweek round at Gillman (Adelaide) of 2600. Bear in mind Gillman is one of many of our tracks that don't have grandstands or terracing and you can imagine how full the place was. I would guess that Mildura had an even bigger crowd. Still, Gillman was the only one of the rounds to be actually held in a capital city and until we can somehow get meetings held in the capital cities and at venues where they can handle bigger crowds then we are pushing it uphill. Having said that it's the chicken & the egg scenario, do you wait till the big crowds come first and then you try for a capital city venue or do you risk a big venue and hope the crowds will come ? Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
chopper 88 Posted January 21, 2005 Sorry to say unless the problems are sorted out quickly with the juniors in adelaide, you will find that you wont have any up and coming riders in south aus.If you look at the riders at present nearly all of them came through the juniors.In the 80s you would get motocross riders and people off the street which doesnt seem to happen anymore. Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
Guest SwineTown Posted January 21, 2005 (edited) Hi, I was wondering if anyone could advise some web-sites where I can find out about speedway meetings in Australia. I'm hoping to take a holiday there in March / April time and was wondering if i would be able to take in a meeting. I'll more than likely be taking the east coast tour Melbourne - Sydney - Newcastle - Cairns etc. Any tips would be appreciated! Thanks. <{POST_SNAPBACK}> Try looking on my site. We have every country we can find links for. (ps-sorry to keep doing this people but its this reason that we bothered doing the site so i want people to know!) Click HERE for the S.Y.P. Australian Section And if you can't be bothered to go to the site - here are the links:- Peter White's Speedway world: www.peterwhitesspeedwayworld.com Classic Motorcycling (excellent Australian site): www.classicmotorcycling.com.au - NEW!! Speedway Net: www.speedway.net.au Australian Motorcycle Association: www.ma.org.au Australian speedway motorcycles: www.ausm.info Gillman speedway: www.gillmanspeedway.com Gosford speedway: www.countrynetsolutions.com.au/~tr0011/gosfordspeedway Motorcycling Victoria: www.motorcyclingvic.com.au Motorcycling New South Wales : www.motorcycling.com.au Steve Magro's Historical world of speedway : http://homepages.ihug.com.au/~stvmagro [also contains many interesting historic links] Speedway racing news: www.speedway.com.au Mildura Motorcycle Club: www.milduramotorcycleclub.org.au Australian Speedway: www.australianspeedway.com Go to "Motocycle Speedway" on the Forum. Aussie speedway motorcycles discussion list : http://sports.groups.yahoo.com/group/aus_speedway_bikes Edited January 21, 2005 by SwineTown Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
Guest Sir Lunchalot Posted January 22, 2005 Not to mention the rather excellent http://www.ssrav.org.au Not my site by the way, it's the site of the nearest speedway body to where I live and where I am taking Bryn in the morning (Sunday) after I meet him off the 6 am flight from Adelaide !! Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
Guest SwineTown Posted January 22, 2005 Not to mention the rather excellent http://www.ssrav.org.auNot my site by the way, it's the site of the nearest speedway body to where I live and where I am taking Bryn in the morning (Sunday) after I meet him off the 6 am flight from Adelaide !! <{POST_SNAPBACK}> I have added this link to the Australia section and the Sidecar section. and may i say Swiney what a credit this site is to you mate well done Thanks for the compliment! ...sincere?.... Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
tomazpozrl 8 Posted January 22, 2005 (edited) and may i say Swiney what a credit this site is to you mate well done <{POST_SNAPBACK}> What about me Anth, I'm working hard too. I have added this link to the Australia section and the Sidecar section. I've now rebuilt Australian section, added some more links and put them into 3 categories : Official bodies, General links and Speedway clubs. Edited January 22, 2005 by tomazpozrl Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
Guest SwineTown Posted January 22, 2005 (edited) Just to make it "official" - tomazpozrl is an absolute marvel and has done the bulk of the international pages and rider sites, going out of the way to post ads, links, and requests for info all over the globe. I did not know what I let myself in for when I made him moderator! We have already almost completed what i lazily dreamed up. An asset to any speedway site - but tomazpozrl is ours! We now have many italian, russian, polish and slovenia visitors,- latvians, czechs, germans, danes, .....................on it goes.- even scottish Edited January 22, 2005 by SwineTown Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
Guest SwineTown Posted January 22, 2005 g'day Swiney, i emailed off to our speedway magz out here about your site in the hope they will mention your links out here for people to visit <{POST_SNAPBACK}> nice one. Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
Diamond Exile 0 Posted January 29, 2005 Hi, I've got a better idea of my route now: Arriving Sydney 25 March, travelling up the east coast for the next 4 weeks. I've used the Yellow Pages to help my research - great links cheers! I see there's a meeting on at Gosford on the 26th March, so could try to get there... train takes a little over an hour, so is easily possible I would think (correct me if i'm wrong, i'm just going from internet research). Can anyone advise start times? or when the bikes are on? All of the posts from Aussie Tjukurpa Mutitjulu Sempi seem to have been removed from this thread which is a shame as there was some great information... can anyone give any pointers of other speedways which operate up the east coast? I can't find any info on Newcastle Showground, or Brisbane... do they run regularly, or infrequently? ...it would be great to visit Newcastle, just to see how it compares with the hallowed Brough Park shale! Thanks for any help you can offer... Sir Lunchalot, it seems like I won't be travelling down to Melbourne which is shame, as I appreciated your offer of going up to Broadford... opted to spend some time in the North instead (i've got a girlfriend to keep happy, as well as my speedway trips on the holiday!) Cheers! Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
Guest Sir Lunchalot Posted January 31, 2005 No problems DE, next time you are in Oz you can try Melbourne !! The meeting at Gosford on 26th March is there last scheduled one for the year but that is the Easter weekend so you might wish to arrange accomodation sooner rather than later if you plan to stay overnight in Gosford. Gosford is easily reached by train in not much more than an hour and in fact is one of the prettiest train trips there is (once you leave the suburbs of Sydney behind that is). The train travels through National Park after leaving Sydney and then all of a sudden you go round a bend and there is the very picturesque Hawkesbury River smack bang in front of you. After crossing the river you have another 10 or 15 minutes or so running right alongside the waters edge with bushland on one side and water on the other and not a road or car in sight. If you go make sure you sit upstairs and on the right hand side of the train. Once you get to Gosford the track is about a 10 minute walk from the station. Get off the train and outside the station turn left and go through the bus area to the road. Walk up a small hill till you reach a set of traffic lights and turn left there. Go over the small bridge that goes back over the train line and you should see a sign for the hospital straight ahead and you should see a high school to your right. Turn right and walk past the school and the showgrounds are right next to the school. The racing usually starts at 7:30. As for regular race meetings Newcastle Showground doesn't have any. The round of the Oz title there was a once off. I would think it would have problems running regularly anyway as houses back onto the property behind the back of the grandstands and it must get rather noisy for the residents. Regular meetings are held at Labrador on the Gold Coast (near Southport) and there is a meeting programmed there for 2nd April. Other tracks in Sth Queensland are at Nth Brisbane but I can't see any meetings scheduled there while you are in Oz, and at Gatton where there is a meeting scheduled for 30th April. I've never been to Gatton but it's about 75 minutes west of the city (I think, might be 90 minutes even) and is a very large track (something like 510 meters) with very fast racing. Happy travelling !! Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
