ALL forms of motorsport take commitment, and land speed racing is no different. In Australia, there is only one meeting per year and it happens on a vast dry salt lake deep in the outback, thousands of kilometres from where most of us live. There is no prizemoney, no rain dates, and it rains more often than you’d think. There aren’t any pandemic dates either.
“THERE’S NO PRIZEMONEY, NO RAIN DATES, AND IT RAINS MORE OFTEN THAN YOU’D THINK”
But it is a lot of fun and the track is something else, as is the backdrop. For motorcyclists at least, it doesn’t take much to modify an existing street or track bike to have a crack as a rookie. Be warned however, that you might like it and find yourself plunging down a rabbit hole of single-purpose backyard engineering in pursuit of an obscure national record. Or maybe just going faster than you went last year.
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