Oran Park Raceway |
Oran Park Raceway is a former motorsport venue which was located near Narellan in Sydney's south-west.
The circuit closed in January 2010 and is now the site of a large housing development known as Oran Park Town, containing some 7,000 residents.
Oran Park Raceway was a motor racing circuit at Narellan in southwestern Sydney, New South Wales, Australia which was operational from February 1962 until its closure in January 2010.
The circuit was established by the Singer Car Club, with its opening meeting held on the weekend of 17-18 February 1962.
The land for the circuit was provided by wealthy Camden grazier Dan Cleary, who also ran an earthmoving business, which provided the equipment used to help build the circuit.
A motorcycle race meeting was held on 17 February 1963, with reigning Grand Prix Champion Jim Redman being the star attraction. Redman won nearly every class and set the lap record of 50.4 seconds, only 0.8 seconds slower than Frank Matich's outright time set in a 2.6 litre Lotus Sports Car.
The original lap distance of 1.0 miles (1.6 km) was later extended to 1.21 miles (1.9 km) with a further extension in 1974 creating an alternative "Grand Prix" circuit of 1.63 miles (2.62 km) in length.
The Grand Prix circuit featured a figure-eight shape with a bridge where the track crossed over itself. Despite the loop the racing direction was still regarded as being anticlockwise.
The complex also had a motocross track, a skidpan, a dirt track and four wheel drive course and a 1000-foot drag strip. Due to the nature of the land on which the circuit was built, most of the circuit was visible from the main grandstand or the grassed banks surrounding the track.
LOCATION INFORMATION
Oran Park Raceway was located at Camden on the outskirts of Sydney in New South Wales Australia.
Today nothing at all remains of the unique figure-of-eight circuit, though some of the Oran Park suburb's street names hint at its celebrated past; Peter Brock Drive, Matich Place, Skaife Street and many others hark back to famous names to have competed in the vicinity. You wonder how many of the residents of the smart suburban housing of Ashby Street even know that this was once where famous flyover was located, while only the name of 'The Straight' would give any hint that it was once anything at all to do with motorsport.
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