clearing at oran park race track

[australian pete]

dropped off the excavator at oran park today, trees have been cleared, we have to shear and grind stumps and branches, logs have been taken..

 

[Squizzy246B]

Some memories there.

 

[Wolf]

dropped off the excavator at oran park today, trees have been cleared, we have to shear and grind stumps and branches, logs have been taken..

How many trees did you push over, Pete? How big were they? Do you get to burn any of it, or how are you gonna get rid of the debris?

 

[Wolf]

dropped off the excavator at oran park today, trees have been cleared, we have to shear and grind stumps and branches, logs have been taken..

How many trees did you push over, Pete? How big were they? Do you get to burn any of it, or how are you gonna get rid of the debris?

Are you gonna get to demo the rest of the track too, or just the trees?

 

[stock]

Wolf are you on the beer?

 

[australian pete]

How many trees did you push over, Pete? How big were they? Do you get to burn any of it, or how are you gonna get rid of the debris?

Are you gonna get to demo the rest of the track too, or just the trees?

we did not push the trees over, a guy who wanted the logs pushed the trees over, and cut off the branches and stumps, they were around 3 and 4 feet diameter, about 60 trees, there will be more in the next stage, the area is mostly cleared has been farm land for a long time.no burning here, massive fines, we will put it through the grinder and they are using the mulch for landscaping. the first stage of the subdivision is next to the track, the track will keep operating till the end of this year.

 

[australian pete]

Some memories there.[/QUOTE

there sure are, i first went there to watch racing in the late sixties, i lived at luddenham only about 15 klms up the road from oran park, went there last year to see the V8 supercars race there for the last time, a great day. my memories of oran park are good, raced there a few times and never crashed, have done lots of laps around there doing ride days taking people for hot laps..

 

[Squizzy246B]

Some memories there.[/QUOTE

there sure are, i first went there to watch racing in the late sixties, i lived at luddenham only about 15 klms up the road from oran park, went there last year to see the V8 supercars race there for the last time, a great day. my memories of oran park are good, raced there a few times and never crashed, have done lots of laps around there doing ride days taking people for hot laps..

I remember watching Mike Dowson on a practice day trying to ride a TZ 750 there, what a wild machine. I also saw AJ there a couple of times and Wayne Gardiner many times. I made it to B Grade at Oran. It was not my favourite place to ride but I sure had some good times there.

 

[oversize]

Ahh the end is near, But it is australian pete up and over the dog leg hard on the power and on to main straight he mulching his way though the field the in field that is

 

[australian pete]

I remember watching Mike Dowson on a practice day trying to ride a TZ 750 there, what a wild machine. I also saw AJ there a couple of times and Wayne Gardiner many times. I made it to B Grade at Oran. It was not my favourite place to ride but I sure had some good times there.

i was in to watching car races more than bikes, not my favourite track either, lots of very hard things to hit if you make a mistake, and the flip flop,that is scary enough in a car , would be terrifying on a bike.

 

[australian pete]

Ahh the end is near, But it is australian pete up and over the dog leg hard on the power and on to main straight he mulching his way though the field the in field that is

and im better at mulching than car racing.

 

[australian pete]

finished at oran park, more pics.

you can see how close the new road under construction is to the existing race track, pics of the pits/corporate suites and the yokohama bridge.

 

[australian pete]

more pics oran park

more pics

 

[oversize]

thank you, any word where the owners planes to build a new track,

 

[australian pete]

i have heard they have given up the idea of building a new track.