Please enjoy some Motorsporting and other assorted clips I have made for a bit of fun and to help promote some of my mates and capture a time and place in history. Paris Charles Photography & Media - Proudly preserving history for one and all... PC :)
Looking at the track on Google Earth the other day. One of the big light towers near turn 3 is lying on the ground with the 4 lights still attached. Looks like no video yet in that area between turns 3 and 4 and across the bridge where the bridge is near the pits.
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Spent many a nights collecting cans during and after the night was done. Was there the night Phil Hereen went over the catch fence. :( The speedway isn’t coming back from here unfortunately
Way back in the late eighties I drove the push car occasionally, so, one night we were told to turn up at the track and don't tell anyone. Bit strange, turned out 2 or 3 formula 1 drivers wanted a fang in a sprint car. No media, just a skeleton crew, the f1 guys ( a lot of pit crew people) 2 sprint cars and the track in pretty good shape. It was amazing how fast the f1 drivers got the hang of it. Good Times.
@@Paris_Charles Martin Brundle and Johnny Herbert, they got in a ton of trouble for it, there was talk of fines but I dont think anything came of it, this was a thursday before the G.P. in adelaide! The cars were Burfords and Phil March's, I could be wrong there it was a long time ago.
@@Paris_Charles pre iphone I'm afraid and it was a strictly no media. I think it was something to do with breaching driver contracts. Another thing that happened back then was the the time Senna and Mansel crashed their BEA Mercedes loan cars at 1 in the morning. Story was they were drifting these brand new 190 benzs around whitmore square Senna lost it and they stuck the car in a shop window, by the time we got there with the tilt tray the scene was deserted.Dragged the car out dropped it at BEA as per instructions, only found out years later when reminiscing about the good old days with a few mates who were high up in the adelaide f1 organization,lol.
Yes it's called sprint car cattle ticks and all their associates I raced bikes and sidecars the crowd wanted to see all classes in the sport of speedway racing but now you have invaded Murray Bridge and have a look at the crowd numbers you have and plus you screwed all the bike people!
Speedway City is filled with many fantastic memories and experiences for so many people. That is why I'm making these series of vignettes and hopefully a full documentary
It hasn't changed, it is exactly as I remember it in the late 80s, even timing clock looks unchanged, so much that I'm guessing its identical to the one I used to operate at Northline in the 90s.
The HQ has never looked that good,, more than I can say for Rob however. Keep at it Wacker, you have outlasted so many in the last near 20 years. Lee Nicolle.
