Favorite Street circuit

[codgyoleracer]

Vote for your favorite closed street circuit, current circuits are listed first.

[FROSTY:Me]

OYYY --what about auckland battle of the port ??
or manukau street race??
Hated battle of the port--bloody oil soaked road crumbling from under me.
Nelson was friggin insane fun

[codgyoleracer]

Maybe "current street events" wouldve been better Frosty , but thought the old farts might like to comment on some of the circuits that in there day were pretty big events (& some were a tad 'unforgiving", Hamilton springs to mind)

[ZeroIndex]

I'm voting on Hamilton, cause I raced around the "new" track (well, it wasn't closed off and I wasn't going fast - was actually driving a car at the time), but yeah... the new track is gonna be awesome and it will be good for bike racing too methinks...

[Matt Bleck]

Bring back the Gisborne Street Race!!!!!

[merv]

Can you add Onekawa (Napier), Hawkesbury (Blenheim) and Porirua for the old farts too. In the meantime I voted Wanganui.

[codgyoleracer]

Yip Onekawa was pritty good, - can still remember sliding on back down pit lane after missing the last lefty........, Too many to list sorry

[merv]

Yip Onekawa was pritty good.

I first went there about 1970 and saw the likes of Geoff Perry against Dale Wylie and Trevor Discombe and that was when I first saw how fast those boys could go, standing about 2m away (roughly 6' in those days eh) from them as they raced down the straights and the noise of the stingers was something in the days before mufflers.

[roogazza]

I first went there about 1970 and saw the likes of Geoff Perry against Dale Wylie and Trevor Discombe and that was when I first saw how fast those boys could go, standing about 2m away (roughly 6' in those days eh) from them as they raced down the straights and the noise of the stingers was something in the days before mufflers.

Merv, I can remember one of my first intros to Street racing when Geoff Perry asked me to move a couple of feet out from the curb " Cos he was coming thru there " !!! ( He had a pusher cos his leg was damaged) Well bugger me ! he did come thru too !!!!! (Gracefeild early seventies) Gaz.

[mbazza]

What about Winton, is it the newest? Looking forward to it at the Burt Munro Challenge in Nov. Cheers.

[White trash]

I don't have a favourite, having never raced a street meeting before. I'm looking forward to Wanganui the most though.

[merv]

Merv, I can remember one of my first intros to Street racing when Geoff Perry asked me to move a couple of feet out from the curb " Cos he was coming thru there " !!! ( He had a pusher cos his leg was damaged) Well bugger me ! he did come thru too !!!!! (Gracefeild early seventies) Gaz.

I've written about it on here some time before talking about Perry at Gracefield. I saw him race the TR750 not long before he died and he was so quick that there was nothing but air between him and the rest of the field with Ginger Molloy running a distant second on the Kawasaki. I think that was the 72/73 summer. Somewhere in the depths of our archives back at my Bro's place we will have some low quality photos of that before we had decent cameras.

[Goblin]

I tried voting twice. I want to vote Paeroa because that's the only street circuit Ive ever raced and I absolutely LOVED it! Wanganui is my favourite from a spectator point of view but I did go to one Gisborne Meeting and thoroughly enjoyed that too, despite falling off on the Taneatua Rail bridge on the way home.Those wet railway lines are a tad slippery when wet!

[cowpoos]

napier street race's were awesome!!!

[scrivy]

I I I I remember....... way way back in '96..... there was this street race in Wellington......

Am I the only old bistard that remembers that one?? Was crap to race on though!!

Oh yeah, what about Paritutu in New Plymouth??

Any more?