Show any motor racing enthusiast a set of roads that form a lap and the wheels start turning – literally and figuratively. In the days when Australia had no racing circuits built solely for that […]
“Like a leg of lamb” was one description of the shape of the 3.8 mile (6.1 km) public road circuit just outside the centre of Mildura. “Mighty fast” was another. In the local aboriginal Latje […]
Beginning in 1937, The Milano-Taranto developed into a very prestigious open roads race, which came to an end after the tragic Mille Miglia car rally of 1957 claimed eleven lives. It was revived in 1985 […]
Six kilometres of flat-out dirt was a test of the brave in the 1930s…. and you can still try it any weekend. Reaching Lithgow, the first stop over the blue Mountains from Sydney, was an […]
September 28-29, 2019 marked sixty-two years since the BP-C.O.R. Speed Tests on a dusty, blustery country road in outback NSW. The occasion passed without any official celebration, but the story is as incredible as ever. […]
Rivalry in motor sport is not uncommon. But in the case of the long defunct Gnoo Blas circuit in Orange, 285 km west of Sydney, motor racing was simply the common factor in an intense […]
A concept that promised the world, ended up delivering much less, particularly to investors. What the crowd got however, had never been seen before in Australia. It was history in the making… When something seems […]
Like its more famous counterpart in the Irish Sea, the Australian TT was the biggest thing in motorcycling Down Under, and so there would be no squabbling over where the annual event that carried the […]
Today, Cherry Lake is a pleasant expanse of water with abundant bird life, with a paved cycling/walking track running around the perimeter. Look closely at the edges of the paving and in spots, you will […]
It’s been nearly 40 years since Longford, 30 minutes south of Launceston, hosted its last motor race. But until a few years ago, you could still drive around most of the public roads that made […]
