Jack
After I emailed you I got a phone call from a FF racer who said that ther=
e
had been a round of our national series (current cars - not historic) on
Australia's only real oval ....the Thunderdome in Melbourne.
As you suggested they came off the oval for a short road course section
which apparently worked extremely well. Apparently everybody really
enjoyed the event and its a shame it never happenned again.
In Brooklands before THE War (for the younger members of the list we are
not talking about Vietnam or Korea) they used to arrange handivaps by
having 3 or 4 chicanes of different severity. The slow cars ran straight=
though without having to slow down, the next slowest had only a mild
chicance, while the fastest cars had an extremely slow chicane which was
enough to even things up considerably.
The promotion of Nascar events in Melbourne seems to have fallen into a
whole so maybe the concept of running a historic race there could be
attractive to the owners.
Maybe we should give them a call in the New Year!
regards
Jeremy Braithwaite
Age & Treachery Racing Australia
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