baypark race track?

[one-speed]

It's not old people who ruin things. It's greedy developers. I had a couple of two wheels club days at bay park. Remember running off the end of the straight on my XJ600 after out braking a ZX10...... I know now why he braked earlier than me.

yep and we are still getting the dam developers shit i think it's a race
to see who could build the most in the sortest mount of time+
great old track it was

[roadracingoldfart]

And i predict it WILL happen to Manfeild before many years pass by as well.
Its like an airport , build the airport then allow the houses around it and then push the airport out because its far to noisy for all the houses around it , and its such a silly place for it anyway.
Gosh an airport or race track alongside a residential estate.
silly people.

[mangell6]

Great track, I remember when there were no houses any where near the track and we had an Australian Falcoon Racecar parked in the driveway at home.

[scrivy]

I used to live less than a Km from it. I'd wake up on a Sunday morning to the sound of bikes racing around. I'd throw on my leathers, tape up the indicators, lights etc., and blast on down. Was a great circuit for me. I had the last lap record on a sidecar on it. No fucker can take that one away from me!!

[QMOTO]

Raced a car on it a few times, a Ford Escort Mexico, neat track, not sure why they shut it down probably noise issues Im guessing coupled with value of land blah blah

[FROSTY:Me]

It was the very first track I raced on back in the eighties.
Back in the RD250lc days.
I had a ball there
Peoples memories are a bit overpositive about the place because there was a bloody deep ditch at the end of the start finish straight and the corner at the end of the back straight was none to flash to run off of either--as me and another kber found out together when he found out that a GS thou DOESNT outbrake an RZ350
Ive got a picture of me on the only right hander kicking around somewhere

[scracha]

Ive got a picture of me on the only right hander kicking around somewhere

Cool, I love old black and white photos. Anyway, I must get back to cable tying up the CBR fairing for tomorrow's fun n' games.

[marty]

not much track left any more....this is the view just before being thrown out of my plane thanks google earth.....

[Waylander]

not much track left any more....this is the view just before being thrown out of my plane thanks google earth.....

I can see my house from there.

Right across the road from the stadium.

[Brett]

WTF...didn't know there even used to be a track at bay park! It really is a pain in the arse that untill Hampton Downs opens, Taupo is the nearest track to Auckland. (Puke doesn't class as a track, crappy dangerous piece of crap.)

[trumpy]

Raced single seaters there back in the 70's. Fun little circuit but had a couple of bad features: there was a nasty drop off on the exit to the sweeper at the end of the main straight, going wide and dropping a wheel off the edge was often a quick trip to hospital and the banking (particularly at the end of the main straight) was sand which used to collapse regularly and form more of a launching ramp than a barrier.
Also nearly got squashed by a Valient Chrger landing upside down in the pits (he went straight ahead at the end of the short straight after the hairpin).
Despite all that had a lot of fun times there and the last meeting ever held there was an absolute hoot!

[codgyoleracer]

Had my first race meet there on an RZ250, Crashed out (as was common for me at the time) & tore the front end off it.
Track was a fairly simple layout but often had sand on its surface. The last corner had massive digger tyres stacked on their sides around the outside edge - soft , NOT. My mate Mike Hooper got the Lap record there on his open production bike & still has cos they tore it up not much later.

[dickytoo]

My mate Mike Hooper got the Lap record there on his open production bike & still has cos they tore it up not much later.

was this the mike hooper who used to race a zxr750?

i remember bay park was very sandy, especially if the wind picked up. i saw a bad sidecar crash there at the end of the straight. i think they hit the sand bank at the end of the straight.

i remember seeing the britten there as well, before it was fully sorted. it had a crash and i think they used a water hose to clean all the sand out of it.