Sport

Boxing Day Speedway meet

By Dean Thompson

Dec 14, 2022

Clean up efforts commenced last week on the Wahgunyah Speedway track.

A special Boxing Day meet has been organised by Wangaratta Speedway to assist Wahgunyah Speedway with the financial cost of recent flood damage.

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The special December 27 event will take place in Wangaratta after the committee offered their venue to Wahgunyah.

The club will take the keys for Wangaratta and their volunteers will join with available Wangaratta volunteers to hold a race meeting with the club taking a financial return.

The Wahgunyah club has lost the majority of its machinery and has sustained damage to the generator that powers up their whole facility. Also, to its light system, grader and water truck, the club office, and the canteen.

With rain outs and Covid over recent seasons cancelling more meetings than the club has held, it was determined that they need a hand.

Not only will the club make profit from the meeting itself, Felicity Roycroft a Wangaratta club member and Goulburn Valley resident from Kialla, and Bree Claridge a resident from the Bendigo suburbs and Swan Hill Speedway Club member are organising a raffle to raise funds.

The planned raffle is not any ordinary raffle. The organisers are pitching for other speedway clubs, businesses associated with speedway or just any businesses who do not want to see a community sports venue go under.

For anybody interested in this cause, they can contact Wangaratta City Raceway via their social media accounts with offers of support or visit the Wahgunyah Speedway Facebook page for more information.