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“It’s fun, and you get your adrenalin up and it’s great stress relief. It’s stopped a lot of the street skidding,” he says. “I’ve been competing on the pad since it opened. Highway Patrol is here, smiling.”Īnother big brash local skidder, CJ, agrees.

'I use to out every night doing burnouts, but now I come here every month instead and you get it out of your system for 80 bucks. You get out there and all your nerves just go. “It took the police more than a year to realise I had changed my ways. “I’ve had more burnout cars than street cars,” Matty says. It was only when he was invited out to the Motorsport Complex and realised he could do the same thing with the encouragement and blessing of Highway Patrol police like Dwayne Morrison, that he realised his troubles were over. His backroad burnouts had him on the police watch list by the time he was 15. Matty Jonkers, 23, admits to being one of those set straight by skidding. This was Bairnsdale greeting the community of skidders of which many of the young would-be problem-driving youths of the town are law-abiding, paid-up members.

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The band Donz Party was playing in the rotunda and drivers mixed with locals, all talking about cars.

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Or $80 to do it legally at the club.”Īnd this is why on a recent drizzly Saturday night, you could see a super-charged little yellow car called Minion, which had caught fire twice in two days while skidding, now driving along the main street of Bairnsdale next to a police car, without incident in fact, the main street is full of rumbling burn-out cars ranging from $200,000 masterpieces to budget-buy Holdens and Fords home-tinkered into skidding machines. You’re talking $1443 later, and the court costs, and a fee to get it back from the yard. We’ll still impound their cars for doing the wrong thing, but the stats for that are pretty low compared with the rest of the state. “We fly the flag for the Police Car Club because we’re into cars as well. Sergeant Morrison says being a regular at the Motorsport Complex has enabled him to build strong relationships with the local youth, building bridges between the law and potential problem drivers. From a policing perspective, kids are going to want to do burn-outs, so why not facilitate it, with a proper venue, so they can do it legally and safely? We’ve got them in a safe environment where they won’t hurt themselves or anybody else.” “I’m 55 now, and had 20 years in Melbourne Highway Patrol, then here. Highway Patrol officer Sergeant Dwayne Morrison has been involved in encouraging legal Bairnsdale skidding since the pad was founded. He and a bunch of fellow citizens took over the lease of a destroyed drag strip next to Bairnsdale’s airport, reportedly sank more than $760,000 into infrastructure, and established the Bairnsdale Motorsport Complex. One of the founders, Colin Hayward, used to drive tow trucks and says it was seeing the extremely distressing end result of young drivers coming to grief that convinced him to do something about it, by approaching the problem from the other direction. Most importantly, the people behind this revhead wonderland say they are saving young lives in Gippsland and other areas of Victoria.