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Published on 01 August 2022

The Bend Motorsport Park officially opened in January 2018. However, my first (and only) visit to 'the bend' was at the end of the 70's when it ran a drag racing event on its newly laid bitumen straight. The big draw-card that day was the jet powered Victorian drag truck 'Waltzing Matilda' which blew everyone's mind who saw it go through its warm-up routine after dark. The only youtube footage of Waltzing Matilda is video taken off a B&W TV (but with no sound) so in order to give fellow members a taste of what I saw and heard on that day/night I've included video of Western Australian Gary Miecevich's jet truck 'Thunder Down Under' which recorded a top speed of 200mph at Willowbank in 1994. Enjoy: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gqnRfyeSvCk