Speed on Tweed is an annual historic motor racing festival held in the

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town of

Murwillumbah Murwillumbah ( ) is a town in far north-eastern New South Wales, Australia, in the Tweed Shire, on the Tweed River. Sitting on the south eastern foothills of the McPherson Range in the Tweed Volcano valley, Murwillumbah is 848 km north-eas ...

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. The event is modelled on

Goodwood Festival of Speed The Goodwood Festival of Speed is an annual motorsports festival featuring modern and historic motor racing vehicles taking part in a hillclimbing, hill climb and other events, held in the grounds of Goodwood House, West Sussex, England, in l ...

and has consistently attracted the best historic racing cars in Australia and from overseas to visit the small town and since its debut in 2002 has contributed substantially to the region's economy. While much of the event features displays, stalls, merchandising and musical performances, the featured events occur around the competitive vehicles. Friday night features a tour through the main street of Murwillumbah before the vehicles pull over and park at a street party before moving into their home for the weekend at the showgrounds at the northern end of the town. Saturday night features another street party, in later years saw dining tables set up in the middle of the street with patrons fed by the restaurants that operate in Murwillumbah. The competitive event features a timed sprint which starts from the showgrounds and races along eight local streets racing up the side of a hill before returning to the showgrounds in a challenging course of just over a kilometre. It was announced in the lead-up to the 2008 event that it would be the last Speed on Tweed organised by the original organising team, led by Roger Ealand. Immediately the battle was on the save the event and very quickly the event found a new home as part of the reborn

Rally Australia Rally Australia is an automobile rally event which was held in Coffs Harbour as the final leg of the World Rally Championship (WRC) until 2018. First run in 1988, the rally was held in and around Perth, Western Australia until 2006. It was par ...

(Australian leg of the

World Rally Championship The World Rally Championship (abbreviated as WRC) is the highest level of global competition in the motorsport discipline of rallying, owned and governed by the FIA. There are separate championships for drivers, co-drivers, manufacturers and t ...

) that coincidentally was to be held in the Northern Rivers area at the same time of year in 2009. The festival went ahead with Friday and Saturday night on the event taken over by the rally cars, becoming a

Super Special A special stage (SS) is a section of closed road at a stage rallying event used for timed speed tests. Racers attempt to complete the stage in the shortest time. A race on a special stage is coordinated such that each competing racer begins after ...

stage of the rally.

Fastest time

External links

Festival of Speed on Tweed

Rally Australia

References

{{reflist Recurring events established in 2002 Rally competitions in Australia Motorsport competitions in Australia Motorsport in New South Wales 2002 establishments in Australia Sport in Tweed Heads, New South Wales