Bulls Roar! The beginnings.........
The Canberra Bulls Speedway Club was formed during 1980 as a result of a chronic shortage of racing opportunities for New South Wales riders who had the misfortune to live outside the metropolitan area. In those days, the only way to make progress as a rider was to get onto the programme at Liverpool, Newcastle or the Sydney Showgrounds, but those tracks only put you on the programme if you were at least a B-grade rider. This catch-22 situation, together with the fact that there were no tracks offering development opportunities, apart from the once-a-month club days at the Nepean track, helped ensure that people in the capital city of Australia - Canberra - rarely saw, or heard about "real" speedway. The existing track at Tralee presented only car racing. For a few good years, we changed all that!