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19 Aug 2018, 13:41 (Ref:3844662)
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Calder some time in 66, Neptune Racing Team, Beechey in the Nova, McKeown in Cortina and skinny Manton in the Mini
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Punters Beer Fest. Indy 02, Clipsal 03, Winton 04, Paperclip 05, Darwin 06, Oran Park 07, Phillip Island 08, Sandown 09, Townsville 10, Symmons 11, Eastern Creek 12, Winton 13. Townsville 14. Paperclip 15, Sandown 16, Symmons 17, PI 18, The Bend 19
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20 Aug 2018, 02:23 (Ref:3844874)
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20 Aug 2018, 07:24 (Ref:3844893)
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This is a good topic; any chance the title can be changed on the thread?
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20 Aug 2018, 07:27 (Ref:3844895)
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No Mods around to do that - they have abandoned us
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20 Aug 2018, 08:34 (Ref:3844903)
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20 Aug 2018, 08:43 (Ref:3844905)
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Checked thread title looked interesting but did not realise it was exclusive to Australians? for the record I think the first motorsport event ,possibly the first sport event I atended was London-Brighton veteran car run when revived after WW2
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20 Aug 2018, 09:56 (Ref:3844926)
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Albert Park 1957 watching Lex Davison (grandfather of Will and Alex) and Stan Jones (father of Alan) race Ferrari 500 and Maserati 250F. A year later I remember running alongside Stirling Moss (being interviewed by legendary journo Mike Kable) as he headed for a helicopter to go Melbourne Airport. I was 11 or 12 years old!
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20 Aug 2018, 12:21 (Ref:3844960)
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First motorsport event attended, RAC rally, 1982
First race meeting attended, European Touring Cars, Donington, 1984 First meeting marshalled, Curborough Sprint, October 1987 First meeting in Australia, Surfers Paradise 2005.[/QUOTE] First motorsport event attended, Goodwood in the mid 60's First race meeting attended, I competed in a Kart race @ Blackbushe in 1974 First meeting marshalled, 1st meeting of the year @ Silverstone in March 1986 First meeting in Australia, Surfers Paradise in 2000, part of my honeymoon after getting married on Buddina Beach near MooLoolaba 
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Comments made are personal and don't reflect any club or Motorsport UK policy. "Only two things are infinite, the universe and human stupidity, and I'm not sure about the former." - Albert Einstein
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21 Aug 2018, 02:17 (Ref:3845106)
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Living next to Alan Jones I was invited to a Friday night party and met so many of these drivers, but I had no idea who they were. Addiction to motorsport was well truly alive. |
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21 Aug 2018, 04:33 (Ref:3845110)
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21 Aug 2018, 21:05 (Ref:3845282)
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My first race attended was at the quarter mile dirt oval at Sterling, IL sometime in the mid 1960s. Grandfather took us kids to see one of his friends' son race a 1955 Ford stock car.
First professional races were the USAC dirt champ cars and USAC stock cars on the one mile oval at Springfield IL circa 1970. Foyt, the Unsers, Mario were all regulars on dirt at the time. Quite a lot of history at the track. Wish I'd been there more often. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Illino...unds_Racetrack First road race was the CanAm at Road America in 1981. |
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1980 Hang Ten 400 @ Sandown - dad had a Golf and I remember Chris Heyer in the Golf against the Triumph & Gemini's etc...
The old first corner sitting on the generators to keep warm I also remember a car racing on LPG gas Falcon Hardtop |
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22 Aug 2018, 07:07 (Ref:3845330)
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22 Aug 2018, 13:37 (Ref:3845382)
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Oran Park 77 or 78
Sports sedans not ATCC Jimbo in the Sidchrome stang VS Frankie in JPS Corvair |
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The first "official" motorsport event I attended was a motorcycle meeting at Brands Hatch in 1961, I went on my pushbike and climbed over the fence as I didn't have enough money. Now I am retired I still don't
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I went to heaps of events on the Island back in the mid to late 60's and early 70's, none of any mention - I do remember Brock in the Austin, I remember Bevan Gibson, I spoke to him a lot.
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It exists, sung by Kevin (Bloody) Wilson.... Living next door to Alan. (Actually about Alan Bond.)[/QUOTE]
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