I remember Amaroo Park

Amaroo Park NSW Australia.

Another of the great NSW tracks that has passed into history, now a real estate development.

Did quite a few track days here when I was younger. Had the honour to meet Stirling Moss here during a historics meet.

Famous Castrol 6 Hour (Production Superbikes) was held there saw most of them.
As Australia's longest running endurance production event, the first of which was won in 1970 by Brian Hindle and Len Atlee
on a Triumph 650, the Castrol Six-Hour became the single most important motorcycle race in Australia.
Normally held a few weeks after Bathurst in mid-October, the race was run at the unlikely venue of Amaroo Park.
Tight, twisty, had little or no run-off area and was universally hated by all riders.
Crowds around 15,000 and entire 6 hours Live on TV.
Castrol 6 Hour moved to Oran Park Amaroo was a deceptive little track that made or broke some of the biggest names in the sport.
It had a faster average speed than the Oran Park GP circuit on a Superbike.

A conversion for the track has just come out for rFactor and so I was feeling whimsically nostagic enough again to make another vid.

Car is a BMW 320 E21 Poker dot style :)

Wikipedia Amaroo Park
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Amaroo_Park

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[emanon86]

Wish I got to see and drive this track.

It is saddening to see this and all our other historic tracks being destroyed due to urban sprawl and not replaced.

I dare say the lack of facilities like this in this countries biggest city might be playing it's part in the teen/hoon issues the media and Gumbyment love to sensationalise...

Out of curiosity, what's the backing track ?

[ozratman]

I agree it is such a shame especially for the character tracks like amaroo.

Well I did have Peter Gabriel on there but I got the cease and desist from youtube so I had to pick one of their royalty free tracks which they do not give the info after you have done it so I cannot remember.

I know someone who is doing a new version of this track with better models and textures for rFactor and GTR-EVO to be done the first half of this year.

[ozratman]

Thanks.

Fraps to capture from an rFactor replay.

After Effects to edit and output using XVID codec.

[thenerd017]

Another great racetrack ruined by real estate. Fuck that!

[jeffdaharper]

Thanks for that. We ran a Suzuki GSX1000 in that for a few years. I still have a Willoughby Club sweatshirt somewhere. I loved how the flag marshals would offer you a joint after you got up from having a crash!

[StaticTremor]

Can't believe Amaroo Park Raceway is dead. I watched sports sedans and group C there back in the day, and attended three of the open days when they let kids ride their bikes around the track.

All that's left now is the lake - sometimes I really hate progress..

[Diptwankynard]

As a 17 year old, i don't remember watching races at amaroo park or lakeside, and i barely remember wakefield park as it is. Oran park has sadly gone the same way, and it wouldn't surprise me if Wannaroo (or barbagallo) becomes real estate in the near future. Because people can't adjust to living near a track, they bulldoze them for the land, and i'm reduced to watching simulations and videos of the great days of Australian racing. Street circuits suck, bring back the permanent tracks!

[knightey31]

Great memories of Amaroo.Got the chance to race there back in the mid 90's in a Datsun 1600 and Mazda RX3 it truly was a fantastic circuit built with the thrill for the driver in mind.Live in QLD now and luckily Lakeside has re-opened, it almost went the same way as Amaroo.

[Frankestein01nl]

Thanks for the laps, great track.. i just had to remember it again (only been here once in gtl, NOT in real life) Leaguerace starting in about an hour ;) Shame it's been buldozed... Wish we all could show up in racecars and plow theyre streets as a protest.

[emanon86]

Make that "Grove Cutter - My shooter" :)

[emanon86]

Grove Cutter - My Shooter.

Took a while, yet finally found it.

BTW, related, Wyong Council has given unanimous support for a club track to be built up their way and are seeking feedback from prospective users and clubs.

It has not got a layout, yet I've been assured it's not going to be a flat boring track :D

[XXXXShelts]

Make it real retro and put something like Terry Shiels or Barry Jones' RX7 into it!!