BangShifters outside of Australia may not be familiar with the Heathcote Park drag strip, but BangShifters sure are. We have featured dozens and dozens of videos over the years from the old school facility in Australia. Not the biggest or fanciest facility, it has served as a place where sportsman racers, small tire racers, and outlaw racers of every stripe in Oz have competed for decades and now owner Russell Clarke has decided that it is time to retire and someone else needs to carry the torch forward.
The track sits on 116 acres and according to the story we found on Drag News Australia, it is being sold as fully functional and essentially turn-key. The story also goes onto say that while it would cost a few bucks the track could be brought up to so-called “Group One” specs and that would allow full tilt cars like top fuel dragsters and the other “professional” drag racing classes to compete there. Putting ourselves in the place of drag racers that compete at the track, we’d probably hope that the new ownership spruced the place up a little but didn’t go nuts. We have read lots of reports that Heathcote is very racer friendly and understands that its competitors need the track and much as they need the competitors. Sometimes visions of grandeur aren’t for the best.
Outside of the drag strip the facility has multiple off-road courses (1.4km and a 2.1km), a mud bog pit, a 500m short strip, and all of the stuff you would expect like concession stands, storage buildings, etc. Why are we reporting on a drag strip for sale on another continent? Just to let you know that this isn’t the only place in the world where these things come up and change hands. Typically when new ownership takes over a track things change on some level. It is always neat to see how it plays out.
There’s even talk of selling shares in the facility rather than a private sale to a single person. It would be kind of neat to have a piece of the pie with respect to a strip in another country, right? If you have the juice, this place could be yours. C’amon Aussie BangShifters, pony up!
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