Darwin Speedway.

Saturday 28th June.

Gail and I went for a nice walk along the walking track to the Lee Point picnic area at the end of Lee Point road. En route we looked for a cache that I had earlier tried unsuccessfully to locate. Our efforts were in vain again so it was recorded as a DNF ( did not find). A local informed us the site had very recently been fully renovated by council workers so we suspect that the cache had been removed or "muggled". Never mind, tomorrow is another day.

After a leisurely afternoon including a swim in the pool it was off to the Speedway for me with Keith and Wendy. Gail preferred to give it a miss and catch up on some quiet time by herself.

The speedway is located at Hidden Valley within the motor sport complex adjacent to the where we had been to the V8 Supercar racing.

The first event was at 6:00pm with a total of 25 events in all. There were five different vehicle categories with 4 heats for each class followed by the feature event.

The vehicles categories included : Go carts, Speedcars, Juniors Street, Wingless Speedcars and one other category whose name escapes me.

To me the most impressive and entertaining were the Junior Street cars, driving by drivers under 16 years of age. The ultimate winner of this category who dominated all night was only thirteen years old. He certainly knew how to control a drifting car on the short oval dirt circuit.