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Startling lights go green for Tailem Bend Motor Sport Park

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Road safety and motor sport activities have been booked at the Tailem Bend Motor Sport Park just some three months after the project was first announced.

‘The interest in the facility has been outstanding, so much so that we already have three bookings for its use’, Jo Malloy said today.

‘We are particularly pleased that two of the first activities that will be held at the complex will be related to road safety involving both motorcycle rider and driver training’, Jo added.

The Stay Upright rider training organisation that is Australia’s largest provider of motorcycle rider training has booked the facility for three days in March, while the Queensland based Safe Drive Training organisation that operates in Australia and across the Asia-Pacific region has also made a booking in March for four days.

The first motor sport activity at the Tailem Bend Motor Sport Park will be a component of the Clipsal 500 Adelaide Rally with a special stage of the event to be held, also in March.

Lyn Punshon said there had also been considerable interest from the drag racing fraternity, and from rally organisers together with other clubs and associations looking to use Tailem Bend Motor Sport Park for a variety of club and community motor sport activities.

‘An information day is also to be held soon for organisations who have expressed interest in the facility to allow them to inspect the site and also to provide input into the master plan that is being formulated for the planning stage of the major development that will ultimately provide a motorcycle and car road racing facility together with a number of other motor sport, driver and rider training facilities’, Lyn said.

The former Mitsubishi testing facility is located east of Tailem Bend on the corner of the Dukes and Mallee Highways with management of the motor sport and rider and driver training facility being operated by Tailem Bend Motorsport Park Pty. Ltd, a company jointly owned by Motorcycling South Australia (MSA) and the Sporting Car Club of South Australia.