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yrs ago i went out to speedway city on a sat morning to test a new car i had built i had done about 15 laps about 8 slow ones to get the feel of the car then let it rip full song for about 6 or 7 laps . i just happend to look out the cnr of my eye chucking it into a cnr and saw a bloke crouched against the wall it was a signwriter painting the wall .

i pulled up and said how long you been there he said the whole time i was on the track and he was shitting himself he went off his nut cause i had sprayed dirt all over his fresh painted work .

i felt really bad cause i didnt spot him b4 when i was just doing slow laps and would have felt a lot worse if i had have hit him

  • 3 weeks later...

I found this on another forum. Good news :D.

Target Opening Date for Legal Off Street Drags at Virginia Raceway

is Saturday 13th December 2008

Please note this will be weather dependant.. heavy machinery can not finish the relaying of the track until it is fully dried out, but all measures are being taken to have the venue ready for the date above.

The Legal Off Street Drags will be run fortnightly on the alternate weekend to the Calder Park meets, full Calendar dates to follow soon.

Also: Brand new track lighting and timing boards are on order and are planned for installation by end January 2009

  • 3 months later...

Hi Peeps sorry to bring up an old thread but I have just stumbled across this and thought I would share!

I think it was set up by Flick???? I did a search in the SA section but it didn't come up :/

http://www.gopetition.com/petitions/state-...-australia.html

It only has 19 signatures at present :( These are a good thing to have and take it to members of parliment if you get a good amount of signatures!!

I am about to start a online petition myself to help ease the burden of losing another race track here in NSW (ORAN PARK) The government think its a great idea to replace it with a Street circuit for the V8's in Homebush here in Sydney that none of us thousand weekend racers can use :sick:

But you guys suffer even more than us here in NSW you only have one motorsport park which just suxs balls! :) You should have a WSID of your own!!

signed... number 25. Come on people, get on this, SA motorists get ass raped by the government with fines and licencing taxes yet when they complain about us driving slightly faster than the limit... "Creepers" as they call us, they tell us to take it off the streets... I say.. OK point me in the direction and I'll go there.... "oh well..... ummm..... actually... just don't do it at all"

Surely were not all sterile are we?

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my uncle is catering manager for AIR chad,

there is no set date for air to re-open due to funding

but thats ok, take the back seat mate, take the ''other people can do it'' attitude as half of

adelaide has

that will be sure to get us a drag strip ay! good idea!

my uncle is catering manager for AIR chad,

there is no set date for air to re-open due to funding

but thats ok, take the back seat mate, take the ''other people can do it'' attitude as half of

adelaide has

that will be sure to get us a drag strip ay! good idea!

do what ya like, i'm not gonna waste my time, this sort of stuff has been going on for years, My old boss was chairman of the back on track commitee, so i've been there done that, way over it now.

i am signed #46 :)

also i heard there should be offstreet drags at air by december and brand new lights and timing gear by jan next year?

as much as i cant stand bob jane and all his bullshit, it would be good to have drags at air again

the best thing that could happen to AIR is it shut down, get flattened and money spent else where........ regardless of the state of the track (money issue) the organisation of that place has been shithouse, and has been for the 15 years ive been going there.....

even gazzanats couldnt be run to time. if any of you guys have been to a drag meet interstate it is run like a efficient business, to time money and plan. if you arnt on the line or havent signed up in time you dont race. no pissing around waiting for competitors and lazy staff to clean a 50c peice of oil off the track.

that place has had its day IMO, it needs serious dollars spent and a massive change of management/organisation for it to be a succesful venue :thumbsup:

/end rant

also what idiot designed the main straight (qtr mile) heading straight into a fierce virginia sunset???lol

all the serious races i saw there had to be halted for a hour+ due to the sunset :s

Not to mention the buffer mounds (spectator mounds) that end about halfway down the track, and then the cars are hit with cross winds if its breezy enough.

I remember years ago watching a family friend (Helen Rustling) lose control when she got out of shape from the cross winds. Beforehand they stopped races for over an hour. They should have called it a day and closed the track, but they let the race run. end result was one smashed up drag car. And her daughter was sitting in front of us and she watched what she thought was her mother being killed.

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