Famous Competitors
Some of the more famous competitors who raced at the Sydney Showground Speedway include:
- Leigh Adams (Solo)
- Jim Airey (Solo)
- Merle Bettenhausen (Speedcar)
- Kym Bonython (Speedcar)
- Eric Boocock (Solo)
- Nigel Boocock (Solo)
- John Boulger (Solo)
- Jack Brabham (Speedcar)
- Frank "Satan" Brewer (/) (Speedcar)
- Barry Briggs (Solo)
- "Leadfoot" Len Brock (Speedcar)
- Barry Butterworth (Speedcar)
- Peter Collins (Solo)*
- Phil Crump (Solo)
- Jimmy Davies (Speedcar)
- Jay Drake (Speedcar)
- Max Dumesny (Sprintcar/Speedcar)
- Jeff Freeman (Speedcar)
- Ove Fundin (Solo)*
- Gordon Guasco (Solo)
- John Harvey (Speedcar)
- Steve Kinser (Sprintcar)
- Wilbur Lamoreaux (Solo)
- Ivan Mauger (Solo)*
- Ken McKinlay (Solo)
- Ole Olsen (Solo)*
- Jack Parker (Solo)
- Bruce Penhall (Solo)*
- Howard Revell (Speedcar)
- Ray Revell (Speedcar)
- Garry Rush (Super Modified/Speedcar/Sprintcar)
- Billy Sanders (Solo)
- Marshall Sargent (Super Modified)
- Mitch Shirra (Solo)
- Johnny Stewart (Speedcar)
- Sammy Swindell (Sprintcar)
- Brooke Tatnell (Speedcar)
- George Tatnell (Super Modified/Speedcar)
- Bob "Two Gun" Tattersall (Speedcar)
- Ron "Sleepy" Tripp (Speedcar)
- Bill Wigzell (Speedcar/Super Modified)
- Bluey Wilkinson (Solo)*
- Jim Winterbottom (Super Modified/Sprintcar)
- Doug Wolfgang (Sprintcar)
- Lionel Van Praag (Solo)*
- Jack Young (Solo)*
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Famous quotes containing the word famous:
“Lizzie Borden took an axe
And gave her mother forty whacks;
When she saw what she had done,
She gave her father forty-one.”
—Anonymous. Late 19th century ballad.
The quatrain refers to the famous case of Lizzie Borden, tried for the murder of her father and stepmother on Aug. 4, 1892, in Fall River, Massachusetts. Though she was found innocent, there were many who contested the verdict, occasioning a prodigious output of articles and books, including, most recently, Frank Spiering’s Lizzie (1985)