Truck Racing in Australia

[racer69]

**Putting it here as it's relevant to Australian racing, and there is no Truck Racing forum on here anyway**


Was interesting to see the 'SuperTruck Nationals' opening round at Oran Park last Sunday, and it was hard not to wonder A) What went wrong with it, it was so popular in 90s and B) whether it can reach those heights again.


In 1990s, especially the Oran Park meetings, were hugely popular. Big crowds and good fields of trucks, backed up by good grids of Sports Sedans at their rounds, there was even a 'Trans-Tasman' challenge each year, in 1995 attracting the likes of Jim Richards to drive for the NZ team.


Unfortunatly the creation of the 'PowerTour' in 2001/02 killed them off, and alot of the big hitters like Inky Tulloch, Rodney Crick, Rob Russell, Glen Dobson & the Sieders (Bill & Luke) departed......


Last weekend saw pretty much the same trucks that have been racing for the last 10 years (new owners now of course, both of Crick's old Volvo's are still kicking round), but the crowds albeit smaller still seem to be fans of it.

One thing mentioned during the circuit commentary on the weekend is that with Oran Park closing the trucks will lose their NSW home, leaving only Mallala & Wanneroo licenced to run trucks in Australia now (QR, Sandown & Winton have all hosted truck races in the past, perhaps they've not renewed the track licence for them?)

Can anything be done to revive them, perhaps the SuperTrucks should become the 'headline act' of the Shannons Series??