Fatalities
In an era when death was an accepted risk of the sport, 12 competitors lost their lives while racing at the Sydney Sports Ground. In the most tragic accident, close friends off the track Norm Clay and Ray Duggan both died after crashing together in a Solo race there on 21 January 1950.
The 12 Speedway competitors who lost their lives at the Sports Ground are
- Les Dillon - Speedcar (22 May 1938)
- Claude Miller - Speedcar (25 April 1939)
- Len Behrmann - Solo (1945)
- Jack Daly - Speedcar (5 January 1946)
- Bob Hibbert - Solo (10 May 1946)
- Norm Gillespie - Solo (2 April 1948)
- Jack Sharpe (John Sharpe Gibson) - Solo (22 October 1948)
- Norm Clay - Solo (21 January 1950)
- Ray Duggan - Solo (21 January 1950)
- Ken Le Breton - Solo (5 January 1951)
- Bill Annabel - Speedcar (23 October 1953)
- Noel Watson - Solo (6 November 1953)
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