Remembering Oran Park

Ten years ago Oran Park Raceway hosted Supercars for the final time. We discover what’s left at Oran Park Town and take a trip down memory lane to Sydney’s best and much-missed motorsport circuit.

- Adrian Musolino

Oran Park Town looks like any other suburb, bustling with new houses, shops, cafes and more. But the land was once home to one of the most loved racetracks in Australia. And there are plenty of hints of its past scattered around the suburb 60km to the south-west of Sydney, which is now home to more than 25,000 residents and 7000 homes.

Peter Brock Drive runs through the heart of the suburb and intersects with Skaife Street, where you turn off and head to Francevic Street, past Lowndes Drive, to ‘Grandstand Park’, where banks of fans once sat at Oran Park Raceway and today the locals can sit and look upon a map the old track layout.

There’s motorsport nostalgia throughout Oran Park Town. The main shopping centre is named ‘Oran Park Podium’. The local rugby league club is the ‘Chargers’, complete with chequered flags on its logo. And the recent addition of a ‘Walk of Fame’ honours 30 motorsport greats.