Wentworth Speedway

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Wentworth Speedway (in Wentworth Park) was a major attraction and a big noise between the world wars. The quarter-mile (400 metre) track was a banked circuit, hosting races by motor bikes from 1928 to 1936. These races nurtured two world champions Lionel Van Praag in 1936 and Arthur 'Bluey' Wilkinson in 1938. Two other riders were killed on the track in 1930.

A rather surprising attraction at these events was races between “big cars” between October 1929 and January 1932, and on Armistice Day 1933. As it became clear that the track was too small for full-sized cars, they were replaced by midget speedcars in 1935. The last race by midget speedcars was held on 28 November 1936. One more meeting was scheduled, but had to be abandoned in the face of damage to the track, and the neighbours’ complaints about the noise.

Speedway was finished at Wentworth Park.

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