A FIVE-BEDROOM home on the site of the former Amaroo Park Raceway has come onto the market.
Opened in 1967, the 1.93-kilometre circuit played host to all the big names in Australian motorsport across its history.
Amaroo hosted events ranging from Australian Touring Car Championship, Australian Drivers’ Championship and Australian Super Touring Championship rounds to the Sun 7 and AMSCAR touring car track championships, plus the Castrol 6 Hour production motorcycle endurance race, an annual historic race meeting and many, many club race meetings.
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A tight and demanding layout for drivers, Amaroo’s setting in a natural amphitheatre made it popular with fans but also made it a target for noise complaints once Sydney’s urban sprawl reached Annangrove’s once rural plains in the city’s north-west.
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The end came in 1998 when its owners, the Australian Racing Drivers’ Club, sold the land off for residential development.
Few traces of the old circuit remain; the development’s street, Amaroo Park Drive, doesn’t quite follow the line of the track’s kinked front straight, while the racing surface itself is long gone.
In fact, the body of water that sat inside Stop Corner is one of the few landmarks that remains visible 25 years after Amaroo’s closure.
Residential homes soon sprung up on the former circuit including 5 Amaroo Park Drive, the house that has just gone onto the market.
The home itself sits next to where cars and bikes used to race up towards Bitupave Hill, while the grassy expanse at the back of the property runs all the way down to Cattai Creek and covers what was formerly the stretch between the Mazda House sweeper and tight Honda Corner left-hander.
Your standout memories from this stretch of track will differ with your vintage, but this is where Jim Richards famously lined up two different outside passes on Dick Johnson during ATCC rounds in the late 1980s.
The first came in 1987, where his JPS BMW M3 rounded up the Queenslander’s Ford Sierra amid a stunning charge towards victory, then he repeated the move in 1989, this time in a Nissan Skyline.
Set on a tick over two hectares of land and featuring five bedrooms, six bathrooms, a billiards room, a cellar, a pool and spa, and a four-car garage, the home will likely fetch a pretty penny.
The median property price for the area is $3.25 million per realestate.com.au, while the most recent sale of a five-bedroom in Annangrove fetched $8.2 million…
Check out the full listing on realestate.com.au HERE.
