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12/12/2004 07:36 PM
Darren
Clark - Strike Photography
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  Our home track is located inside the Cairns International Motor
Speedway
Circuit (Arthur Strike Park Raceway), Thompson Road, Edmonton.
Track
Facts:
408metres - 7m wide
Bitumen Surface
Day/Night Racing - Clockwise or Anticlockwise
Race Season:
February to November
The Club built the Kart circuit at Edmonton in 1984, in association with the
speedway complex the club laid down a top quality bitumen surface circuit in the
centre of the speedway arena. In late 1998 racing numbers outgrew the Cairns
racetrack and the track lay dormant fro a couple of years as the club
moved to the Mako Track facility in Mareeba, however, the club decided
to return to it's home track, with a view of building a new 1080m
international race track.
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Kart drivers open new hotmix track
The Cairns Kart Racing Club will hold its official opening meeting
on Saturday week at the Cairns International Speedway.
The meeting, to be held under lights, will attract drivers from
Townsville, Moranbah and Brisbane.
Earlier this year the club held an invitation meeting under lights
which attracted Australian touring car champion, Dick Johnson; who drove well
notching up two wins and he impressed everyone with the effortless ease he
displayed in driving.
From humble beginnings some six years ago, the club has progressed
from racing on dirt on vacant allotments, through course bitumen at the Cairns
Showgrounds to a $28,000 hotmix track at the Cairns International Speedway.
The track, on the infield of the speedway track is 440m long, 6m
wide, and boasts an unbroken pit section for ease of grid formation.
The track took about six months to build with the club members
doing the lot, except the actual laying of the bitumen. |
The
club considers their track to one of the finest in Australia with tyre
wear being low.
The membership
of the club numbers 25 drivers, all of which are in Class Australia.
The lap record presently stands at 24.26 sec., however this
may well be beaten at the night meeting as lap times are considerably
lower and conditions cooler at night.
Race distance is usually over 10 laps with as many as six
heats being run in a day, covering two senior and one junior grades,
plus a feature race of 25 laps.
An interesting feature tried recently is to hold a race in
the reverse direction. Normal direction is clockwise and racing in an
anticlockwise direction completely changed the driving style and
effectively creates a different track.
In the near future the club plans to hold a one hour enduro
which includes a compulsory pit stop for fuel and the choice of one or
two drivers per kart.
These have been held in the past with great success with
some 140 laps completed in the hour. More than once has a race been won
or lost in the pits. |
Track layouts Track Design
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Various members within the club have been working very hard on trying to acquire land on which to construct
this facility, this is time consuming and takes time and effort to keep
going, even when things don't look too bright. But I'm sure with time and
continued effort everything will pay off and we will obtain our objective. A business
plan has been submitted to Council please feel free to peruse and if you
have any comments please send them on the Steve
Oldham Project Manager |
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