Speedway City - The Fall Part 3

After the closure of Rowley Park Speedway on Torrens Road, Adelaide's Speedway Park was opened in 1979 and was once for a long period of time the jewel in the crown when it came to Australian Speedway venues, located just 26 kms from Adeleaide's CBD.
As Speedway Park the venue opperated from 1979 - 1996. In 1997 Bob Sincock and Wendy Turner took on the role of owner promoter and gave the venue a tremendous run until 2016. In 2017 the venue was leased to the Miller family and ran for two seasons as Adelaide Motorsport Park (2017-2019) before the venue went into long term hiatus.
In 2020 Charlie from KCM Metals purchased the property. Since the new ownership several attempts have been made to lease the venue however none have been successful in getting off the ground.
Over the time the venue has been used for Speedway (car and bike), Burnouts, Side by Side racing, Dirt Karts, Stadium Off Road and other social / community events.
In December 2023 I made a trip to the venue to film the current condition of the stadium. This is the third of a series of short videos that I will upload to You Tube. Also an official documentary will be released further down the line. If you have anything you may like to contribute to the upcoming documentary then I would love to hear from you.
God Bless,
Paris Charles.

[@jairret3640]

Rip old speedway fall city

[@user-ml2mx9rt6t]

I have alot of memories from going to speedway city as a kid every Friday night watching my dad race his speedcar RIP DAD

[@Paris_Charles]

wow, cool who is your dad what number speedcar did he drive?

[@user-ml2mx9rt6t]

Allan lambe sa13

[@user-ml2mx9rt6t]

@@Paris_Charles alliance lambe speedcar sa13

[@user-ml2mx9rt6t]

Allan lambe speedcar SA13

[@timfletcher9907]

Way back in the late eighties I drove the push car occasionally, so, one night we were told to turn up at the track and don't tell anyone. Bit strange, turned out 2 or 3 formula 1 drivers wanted a fang in a sprint car. No media, just a skeleton crew, the f1 guys ( a lot of pit crew people) 2 sprint cars and the track in pretty good shape. It was amazing how fast the f1 drivers got the hang of it. Good Times.

[@Paris_Charles]

wow what a story, what f1 drivers and whos sprintcars did they drive?

[@timfletcher9907]

@@Paris_Charles Martin Brundle and Johnny Herbert, they got in a ton of trouble for it, there was talk of fines but I dont think anything came of it, this was a thursday before the G.P. in adelaide! The cars were Burfords and Phil March's, I could be wrong there it was a long time ago.

[@Paris_Charles]

@@timfletcher9907 wow thanks for sharing, i wish there were photos available?

[@timfletcher9907]

@@Paris_Charles pre iphone I'm afraid and it was a strictly no media. I think it was something to do with breaching driver contracts. Another thing that happened back then was the the time Senna and Mansel crashed their BEA Mercedes loan cars at 1 in the morning. Story was they were drifting these brand new 190 benzs around whitmore square Senna lost it and they stuck the car in a shop window, by the time we got there with the tilt tray the scene was deserted.Dragged the car out dropped it at BEA as per instructions, only found out years later when reminiscing about the good old days with a few mates who were high up in the adelaide f1 organization,lol.

[@bennitschke8156]

Make ya wanna cry

[@andrewmorgan4306]

I brings back memories can,t belive it,s all gone because of greed.

[@peterchambers6208]

Spent many a nights collecting cans during and after the night was done. Was there the night Phil Hereen went over the catch fence. :( The speedway isn’t coming back from here unfortunately

[@80nodrog]

Are you wearing clogs?

[@Paris_Charles]

no, can't say i was

[@pauleasterbrook2036]

Where was the track

[@Paris_Charles]

virginia south australia

[@peterchambers6208]

Virginia, 1/2hr north of adelaide. Right next to the old Adelaide International Raceway, which is also rotting away.