❓ Ms. Winton asks about the return of motorcycle racing to Barbagallo Wanneroo Raceway and its benefits. The Minister responds positively, detailing safety upgrades and collaboration between groups to enable the return of racing after a 2.5-year hiatus.
AnsweredQoN 150Legislative Assembly
QuestionView source ↗
BARBAGALLO WANNEROO
RACEWAY — MOTORCYCLE RACING
150. Ms S.E. WINTON to the Minister for Sport and
Recreation:
Can the minister update the house on
the return of motorcycle —
Several members interjected.
The SPEAKER : Members, I will
hear the question in silence. Start again, member.
Ms S.E. WINTON : Thank you. I will
start again.
Can the minister update the house on
the return of motorcycle racing to Barbagallo Wanneroo Raceway and the benefits
it will provide to both the racing community and small businesses?
RACEWAY — MOTORCYCLE RACING
150. Ms S.E. WINTON to the Minister for Sport and
Recreation:
Can the minister update the house on
the return of motorcycle —
Several members interjected.
The SPEAKER : Members, I will
hear the question in silence. Start again, member.
Ms S.E. WINTON : Thank you. I will
start again.
Can the minister update the house on
the return of motorcycle racing to Barbagallo Wanneroo Raceway and the benefits
it will provide to both the racing community and small businesses?
AnswerView source ↗
It is with great pleasure that I stand
up here to update the house on motorcycle racing at Wanneroo raceway. I thank
the member for Wanneroo for her advocacy over quite some time while we have
been waiting for the bikes to return to Wanneroo. Last weekend, I was able to
go out there and wave the flag as the bikes came back on the track. That work
did not come easily. That work was very difficult over quite a period. Bikes
were not allowed on the track for nearly two and a half years. That was because
of safety problems that were identified in 2016. It took some time for the
parties to get together and rectify those problems. I am very pleased that the
motorcycle groups and the WA Sporting Car Club now have a memorandum of
understanding between each other to work out how to address safety issues into
the future, and how they have gone about and upgraded the track. They have put
in what is called a bus stop so that the turn goes away from the steel fence that
was there, where several people had been injured. But I do have some personal
satisfaction there. In my younger days, around my twenties, two of my mates
were killed out at Wanneroo. It takes a long time to get things done, if we
want to put it that way. It is with great pleasure that we have the bikes back
out there. If we did not have the working groups, such as sport and recreation,
the WA Sporting Car Club, and Motorcycling Australia, which also came over
several times to give advice about the safety issues, about how to get an air
fence in the right way, and the bus stop, as they call it, to turn the bikes
away from there, we would be still waiting. That is something really special.
But also something special was that
I was looking around, and I certainly knew a few of the older people around
there, and there was a guy called Mick Robbins, who is 74 years of age and
still racing a sidecar out there, and competitively. There was also a new
person coming through, a superstar in the making, Dillon McDermott from Collie.
He was out there. He is from the famous McDermott family, which has won many
state and Australian championships. Great to see those guys out there.
What I must impress is that when the
groups got together and got a common goal to go forward, it was done. Previous
to that, there was a lot of argy-bargy and not a lot of work was done. I thank
all those groups that got together. We now have the bikes out there racing as
safely as possible.
up here to update the house on motorcycle racing at Wanneroo raceway. I thank
the member for Wanneroo for her advocacy over quite some time while we have
been waiting for the bikes to return to Wanneroo. Last weekend, I was able to
go out there and wave the flag as the bikes came back on the track. That work
did not come easily. That work was very difficult over quite a period. Bikes
were not allowed on the track for nearly two and a half years. That was because
of safety problems that were identified in 2016. It took some time for the
parties to get together and rectify those problems. I am very pleased that the
motorcycle groups and the WA Sporting Car Club now have a memorandum of
understanding between each other to work out how to address safety issues into
the future, and how they have gone about and upgraded the track. They have put
in what is called a bus stop so that the turn goes away from the steel fence that
was there, where several people had been injured. But I do have some personal
satisfaction there. In my younger days, around my twenties, two of my mates
were killed out at Wanneroo. It takes a long time to get things done, if we
want to put it that way. It is with great pleasure that we have the bikes back
out there. If we did not have the working groups, such as sport and recreation,
the WA Sporting Car Club, and Motorcycling Australia, which also came over
several times to give advice about the safety issues, about how to get an air
fence in the right way, and the bus stop, as they call it, to turn the bikes
away from there, we would be still waiting. That is something really special.
But also something special was that
I was looking around, and I certainly knew a few of the older people around
there, and there was a guy called Mick Robbins, who is 74 years of age and
still racing a sidecar out there, and competitively. There was also a new
person coming through, a superstar in the making, Dillon McDermott from Collie.
He was out there. He is from the famous McDermott family, which has won many
state and Australian championships. Great to see those guys out there.
What I must impress is that when the
groups got together and got a common goal to go forward, it was done. Previous
to that, there was a lot of argy-bargy and not a lot of work was done. I thank
all those groups that got together. We now have the bikes out there racing as
safely as possible.
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