Attention Australian Speedway and Motorsport Fans! The popular Liverpool City Raceway book is finally reprinting! This lavishly illustrated book covering the history of Liverpool City Raceway from its construction in 1966 to its sad demise in 1989, is loaded with first person memories from competitors, (like Sir Jack Brabham).
Long before Formula One, before the Supercars the hell men (and one or two women) of Maroubra, the speedway demons, risked life and limb for glory on a track surrounded by scrub and sand hills over the course of a few short years.
Perhaps to best understand the Tasman Series is to consider the importance that it held to the F1 teams of the day, best represented in the 1968 season, when Cosworth produced a special Tasman variant of its legendary DFV V8, known as the DFW, and the BRM arrived ‘down under’, with a reduced capacity version of its F1 V12 in its current car. In ......
From its early beginnings in the ‘20s to its final race meeting on 27 April, 1996, Sydney Showground Speedway captured the imagination of competitors and race fans around the world — simply put, there was nothing like it. The spectre of the Bull Pen’s turn, the race track’s most lethal corner, is still present; so too, perhaps, the ghosts of ......