Speedway

On Saturday night we went to the Speedway. We had chips and hotdogs. Only hotdogs here are sausages in batter on a stick then dipped in ketchup..! They had junior classes and seniors. We saw 12year olds whizzing around the track on their bikes. We also saw the guys where one is the rider and the other is called a swinger. He leans right out on the corners. When I say leans more like hangs off the bike onto the track as they go round at very fast speeds. One swinger came off and slid down the track. This is a pic of them. You need to click on the pics for a bigger image.




There were other classes for mini, juniors and bigger stock (V8's) cars going up to what appear to be big V8 road cars like bangers, but they wern't supposed to crash into each other. Quite a few of the bigger stock cars had crashes where they hit the side walls and flipped over or two cars became wedged together with one half way up the wall. The race meet had to be cancelled around 20:30 as one of the larger stock cars broke the saftey cable between the car track and the fence where we were! Some more pics.


At the end of the meeting they had more fireworks. Ahhhhh!!! Ooooooh!