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The Australia national speedway team is one of the leading teams in international motorcycle speedway, with the country regarded as the birthplace of the sport in the 1920s. The team are five times champions of the world having won the sports premier team competition in 1976 , 1999 , 2001 , 2002 and 2022 .
The track has been a significant venue for important motorcycle speedway events, including qualifying rounds of the Speedway World Championship (the first in 1994). [5] [6] It has also held the final of the Australian Solo Championship (the first in 1995) [7] and the New South Wales Individual Speedway Championship on 13 occasions from 1994 to ...
The outright lap record is held by South Australian driver Steven Lines from Mount Gambier, with a time of 10.930 seconds, set on 12 November 2011, in a 410 Sprintcar. The track is governed by Speedway Australia, the main governing body for Speedway tracks in Australia. Common classes here include Sprintcars, Speedcars, Formula 500 and Junior ...
The 2025 Australian Individual Speedway Championship was a motorcycle speedway competition organised by Motorcycling Australia (MA) for the Australian Individual Speedway Championship. [1] The event was held over three rounds with the champion being classified with the most points collated from the three rounds. [ 2 ]
Like most Australian circuits at its time of construction, AIR raced and still races clockwise, though the Super Bowl, with speedway meetings and NASCAR races in the 1990s, is the only part of the circuit to run state or national championship races anti-clockwise.
For instance in the Newcastle area, racing was held at the still operating Newcastle Showground as early as 1919, though it wasn't until 1973 with the opening of Jerilderie Park Speedway, later to become the Newcastle Motordrome, that Newcastle had a dedicated speedway track that wasn't a showground although there was a short-lived 1/2 mile ...
The NSW Government promised to rebuild the speedway in a different location in Sydney. [6] In December 2020, the new Sydney International Speedway within the Western Sydney Parklands at Eastern Creek was approved, and construction began in 2021. [7] [8] The new speedway is located south of the Sydney Motorsport Park and next to the chute at ...
The Sydney Sports Ground Speedway was officially opened in 1937 by Mr E. A. Buttershaw, NSW Minister for Lands. The ground held the first ever Australian Speedcar Grand Prix on 12 March 1938 and was won by Sydney driver Les Dillon who was killed at the track only two months later becoming the speedway's first fatality. Between 1938 and 1953 ...