Oran park closing!!@#!@#

[Guest Mashrock]

Oran park is dew to close in a few years time, (10-20) the two blokes who own all the land some 1214ha, have just had it all zoned residentual. so big development to go on there some 100000 new homes.

lets hope not but the two owners are said to be billionares over the development..

[Guest Mashrock]

2010 will be a new rail line from glenfield to leppington also.

[benm]

They said this afew yers ago too, then not long after they rebuilt the entire pit area

[BHDave]

I'll beleive it when i see it, but it is on the cards and once people start moving into the new developments in the area it'll only be a matter of time

[JCMarshall_Law]

It'll happen, just a matter of time.

bummer for motor sport,

Don't worry someone will build another one, only prob, it will be somewhere west of the snowy!!!

I heard Woomera has some space!?!!?!

[Duncan]

anyone remember Amaroo Park?

[BHDave]

I know the name but have no idea where it is or was

[Duncan]

lol it only closed about 10 years ago!

Lets face it OP will close, leaving us with Eastern Creek at top dollar or Wakefield 3 hours away. And EC is a borin track.

so...GET OUT THERE and ejoy it while it is still around. OP Grand Prix circuit is by far the most interesting in NSW, its one of the old style tracks that just go up and down as the land did....very challenging in places.

[benm]

Ahh Amaroo ... those were the days !!

Who remembers "Liverpool City Raceway" ?

[BHDave]

Thats why i can remember it then, seeing as i'm getting old and watched motorsport religiosly every sunday as a kid

[Bleach1]

Ahh Amaroo ... those were the days !!  

Who remembers "Liverpool City Raceway" ?

I DO! i remember going to watch the sprint cars there when i was a little kid. I always seemed to remember it been better than parra speedway.

You can buy a house on the main straight of Amaroo these days. Damn progress.

[benm]

I'd prefer a house on the 2nd last corner, always seemed to be incident packed there

[bigcarl]

i watched alan moffit race his rx7 back in the early eighties as a kid, saw nissan exa turbo race, r31 skyline and the infamous turbo trx bluebird!!!

[Bullant47]

Hi Duncan ..yeah i remember Amaro Park...Seen cars and bikes there. I saw Jackie Stewart racing his BRM at Warwick Farm. Saw Geoghan Bros, Manton, Beechey,Freddy Gibson in his Lotus Elan S2 at Katalina (Katoomba). There used to be a few other tracks years ago.

Ken

[Roy]

Amaroo park was a real loss, and can see Oran going the same way with NSW land prices being what they are:(. I should have taken my old Valiant to Amaroo, it looked a great little track with touring car races always action packed.

We will always have Punt/Bells, and with mobile phones/000, the firies and ambos will never be far away:(

[Craved]

I heard 5 years til she closes, read this in a Motorbike Mag that they are developing the track site and a dairy farm to open new residential area...

Aparrantly the 2 owners stated that they would continue to back australian racing and that they will/might open another track elsewhere!

hope that goes ahead!

[Beer Baron]

anyone remember Amaroo Park?

Amaroo park was tops. My best friend in high schools dad used to race HQ holdens (and open wheel formula cars before that) there. Was an awesome track. Glad I got to go there while it was still around.

It will be a shame to see OP go, but I'll most certainly be out there in the GTR before it does.

Richard

[Silver-Arrowz]

Owner of Oran wants to sell out and buy EC.

EC is kinda borning. OP is better.

[GTR032]

I use to ride my push bike around amaroo park back when I was a kid Damn hill just after the start line use to kill me hehe

[Duncan]

I use to ride my push bike around amaroo park back when I was a kid Damn hill just after the start line use to kill me hehe

hahaha classic, that was the only I ever did laps of Amaroo too

much easier in a car I bet