For interest details attached.
Includes some fantastic historical photos and details.
Photos of Brabham's Redex Special are very good
Melbourne’s Other 1950s Lakeside Circuit Uncovered – The Race Torque
Posted 09 July 2022 - 09:12
For interest details attached.
Includes some fantastic historical photos and details.
Photos of Brabham's Redex Special are very good
Melbourne’s Other 1950s Lakeside Circuit Uncovered – The Race Torque
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Posted 09 July 2022 - 09:34
A Melbourne friend of mine has just told me that there's a new track near the Victoria/NSW border, with loads of corners,
Can't remember the name though.
Posted 09 July 2022 - 11:18
Well, it's not Altona...
The bitumen was laid directly on the dried-up edge of the lake for at least a part of the lap, the Charge Brothers had come up with the idea and saw it through.
Of course, when a wetter season came along and those bits flooded it was simply doomed.
Doggie... you'll have to come up with a name, mate.
Posted 09 July 2022 - 12:50
A Melbourne friend of mine has just told me that there's a new track near the Victoria/NSW border, with loads of corners,
Can't remember the name though.
Wodonga I believe, actually out on the highway to Melbourne.
Posted 09 July 2022 - 13:04
Posted 09 July 2022 - 13:08
That would be Tailem Bend in South Australia...
It's on the site of the old Chrysler/Mitsubishi test grounds, upgraded into decent circuit material three or four years ago but in use for a variety of things - including Formula Student - for a long time.
Hume Weir was at Wodonga (or Albury) but closed in 1985.
Posted 10 July 2022 - 00:11
There is a circuit called the Wodonga TAFE Driver Training centre at Barnawartha North.
Posted 10 July 2022 - 02:04
A bit interesting...
It looks to be almost 2kms long.
From memory, Brad Jones was involved with the TAFE in setting up the motorsports courses.
Posted 11 July 2022 - 04:45
For interest details attached.
Includes some fantastic historical photos and details.
Photos of Brabham's Redex Special are very good
Melbourne’s Other 1950s Lakeside Circuit Uncovered – The Race Torque
Posted 11 July 2022 - 08:08
I don't remember when I went looking for it, probably in the mid-seventies...
I did find little stretches of bitumen, but it was (as you say) featureless and it was bleak.
Posted 12 July 2022 - 06:21
Maybe that one - he does Porsche track days.
He just told me he was talking about Sailem Bend, south east of Adelaide. Seems to have been there 6 or seven years.
TAILEM Bend. The Bend Motorsport Park.
Edited by Lee Nicolle, 12 July 2022 - 06:23.