Cemetery Circuit

Cemetery Circuit

Motorsport venue
Name = Cemetery Circuit | Location = Wanganui, New Zealand
Time = UTC +12
Length_km = 1.5
Length_mi = 0.932

Cemetery Circuit is temporary street circuit in downtown Wanganui, New Zealand for motorcycle racing. The meeting traditionally held on Boxing Day each year since 1951. It attracted some of the best New Zealand motorbike racers to compete on the tight one-mile street circuit. The Circuit is named because it races around the old town cemetery in the area. It also got a nickname: “Southern Hemisphere’s Isle of Man”.

External links

* [http://www.cemeterycircuit.co.nz/ Official Website]
* [http://www.aatravel.co.nz/101/Regional101_Cemetery-Circuit.html AA Travel's info of Cemetery Circuit]
* [http://www.wanganui.govt.nz/News/commsLink/issue290.asp Exhibition celebrates motorcycle racing heritage]
* [http://www.motorcyclesport.co.nz/?id=3429 Cemetery Circuit, 2007]
* [http://www.bikesportnz.com/articles/?p=901 A Really Big Day Out]


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