Our History

Dowerin Showgrounds, Speedway Lake and  two local  Airstrips are just four venues used over the years to  feed the demand for motorsport enthusiasts.

On the 14th December 1929 the Speedway race track at the Dowerin Koombekine Lakes was host to Dowerin’s first motor racing event. Over 2000 people arrived to the district from Perth, Bunbury and the surrounding Wheatbelt towns braving the intense heat and dust.

However, the last run of the day at Lake Koombekine was to be the last race run at the lake itself, as the Great Depression descended and 1930 heralded a depression for motor sport in Western Australia too.

It was in 1936/7 that Messers Wilson and Freemantle made the decision to put Dowerin back on the map and they marked a return to the good old times of motor sport in WA forming the Dowerin Car Club.

A circular track was established at the Dowerin Showgrounds adjacent to the town. The smooth new track was one mile in circumference and was such a proven success from it’s inaugural race meeting. The Dowerin Showgrounds track was then transformed into a more interesting layout for subsequent meetings. The track became a great fundraiser from one of Dowerin’s most worthy causes, the Dowerin General Hospital.

The Second World War brought the "Days of Daring Do" to a halt and although some local racing started after the war finished, followed by some drag racing in the late 1960s, on a disused airfield south of town.  In the eighties, drag races were held (with the support of the local constabulary!) on a farm airfield north of town.