Mooliabeenie Circuit, 2004
Used only briefly, and having its one moment of glory when motorcycling great Geoff Duke raced there in 1956, Mooliabeenie circuit is still surprisingly intact.
Broadly similar to Caversham, although with a ball-bearing gravel main straight, the circuit still survives, hidden beside the Gingin to Bindoon Road. Much of it is now a wildlife sanctuary. A rifle range cuts across the circuit at one point, and a farm has cut off the last fifty yards or so of the Western end. One thing hasn't changed: the small, sticky bush flies which plagued racegoers fifty years ago are as adhesive as ever.
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| ABOVE LEFT : 1: Exit from the main stright; 2: Approaching the Gun Club shed. ABOVE RIGHT: 3: Just past the shed. 4: next section | |
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| ABOVE LEFT: 5: Winding back towards the main straight. 6: log across track warns of fence ahead. At that point the circuit, still curving right, vanishes in cleared farmland. ABOVE RIGHT: 7: Looking back towards the western end of the straight, the farm shed roughly marks where the back part of the circuit rejoined the straight. 8: The opposite direction from 7, looking towards the start-finish line roughly where the dark dots are on the straight. | |