Birthplaces of Australian Motor Racing - Pearson, Bill
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This book records and now preserves the history of Australian motorsport. Huge proportions of it were just on the very edge of being lost. By the time you have read this book, you will be unbeatable at Australian motor racing trivia around any race campground fire pit or BBQ. You will know what the deadliest day was trackside in this country, the speedway promoter who discovered and named one of Australia's biggest international rock groups, the most extreme financial car racing venue disaster of all time, why many residential roads have names the people who live there don't appreciate, and…mehr

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This book records and now preserves the history of Australian motorsport. Huge proportions of it were just on the very edge of being lost. By the time you have read this book, you will be unbeatable at Australian motor racing trivia around any race campground fire pit or BBQ. You will know what the deadliest day was trackside in this country, the speedway promoter who discovered and named one of Australia's biggest international rock groups, the most extreme financial car racing venue disaster of all time, why many residential roads have names the people who live there don't appreciate, and what venue built its own railway station which is still in use today. You will discover places worth dragging the family off to so you can take photos of rusting artefacts and sprout knowledgeable but boring nostalgic conversations. You'll also be amazed at some of the historic car racing locations you've unknowingly been driving past. How do you locate old car venues when some were utterly demolished 90 years ago, an industrial complex built on the same spot, which was in turn torn down and replaced with a university, a lake or a multi-storey housing estate? This roll call of mine started out with two simple questions that most petrol heads in this country ask themselves sooner or later. How many car racing facilities have closed in Australia - and why?
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I've written a lot of comic book stories, which is always interesting when I see the pictures my collaborator artist has created out of my descriptions. If the pictures are good, the story is wonderful. If the pictures aren't good, the story is worthless.Writing novels is very different. I have to describe pictures I'm hoping all kind of people can create in their own minds while reading what I've written. I wrote this, rewrote it, and then made changes. There's always a better word for saying what you're trying to say than the first word you think of, so it's still not perfect.The beginning was easy, and the ending was easier than the beginning. It was everything in between that took work.I just wanted to tell a story about a couple of wolfdragons from another planet in the Milky Way, but some minor characters, human beings, kept interrupting until they were taking up as much of the action and a lot more of the dialogue!Sorting it all out became a real chore, but it was still more fun than cutting weeds or doing laundry, so I stuck with it.I suppose relatively few adults would want to read a story about wolfdragons because when you come right down to it, their lives are fundamentally similar to Earth dragons, and everybody knows how dragons exist on our planet.Most people belive Earth dragons are extinct, but I can verify wolfdragons definitely are, and were, even before I began writing about them.