About Cooper
Cooper NORMAN
Age: 17
Location: Murrurundi NSW
Racing Number: 49
Driving Years: 5
Favourite Track: Toowoomba Speedway QLD
Cooper was born in November 2008 in Adelaide SA. He now resides in Murrurundi (country NSW) with his family and attends the local grammar school in Scone where he is in year 9. Cooper has always loved cars, from the age of eight months when he attended his first speedway meeting where he was mesmerised by the cars and the noise. He has been fortunate enough to visit many tracks across Australia and his love for open-wheel racing continues to flourish.
In September 2021 Cooper was given the opportunity to compete in the national junior development Formula 500 class where to date he has just completed his second entire season where he finished second in the in the NSW State. He is demonstrating continual improvement under the guidance of the national instructors. With the new season resuming in September 2024, we have a rather busy upcoming schedule that includes thirty (30) events over three (3) states. This involves a lot of capital investment and ongoing costs, however, with the passion, skill and dedication he has shown to date and the experience he has obtained, we feel that this is a terrific opportunity and we are now preparing a new car for the upcoming season.
About Speedway
Speedway racing has been a part of Australian motorsport history for almost one hundred (100) years. There are ninety-Seven (97) speedway venues across Australia taking in forty-five (45) different electorates with over nine hundred and eighty (980) events held each year with a collective audience of over five hundred thousand (500,000) people.
Speedway racing offers a cosmopolitan smorgasbord to excite any motor sport enthusiasts and provides a fun action filled inexpensive night out that the whole family can enjoy. There are a number of national classes today, Sprintcars, Formula 500’s, AMCA Nationals, Compact Speedcars, Junior Sedans, Midgets, Late Model Sedans, Litre Cars, Modified Production Sedans and numerous other divisions.
Sydney NSW now has a brand-new purpose-built state of the art track located in the motor park precinct of Eastern Creek that will attract thousands of new supporters and followers with modern facilities and a progressive promoter. This will increase the sports exposure to all levels of media as it has been a very political move to close the long running Parramatta track, this will offer great benefits to all aspects of the sport.
Speedway racing can be simply described as “The Greatest Show on Dirt”
Formula 500’s
The Formula 500 division of speedway racing is a progressive and innovative national club with increasing numbers and a fierce racing competition. Promoters and sponsors nationally have witnessed the growth of the division and the increasing support of crowds and competitors that they attract to each race meeting, so much so that they can be seen most weekends competing at race tracks around Australia.
Formula 500 Australia have taken the initiative to set a path for junior drivers to progress into the sport by offering a restricted engine capacity motor that will cater for future racers aged 12 to16 years to experience and learn the art of open wheel racing in a controlled environment. The junior division to date has been very successful and now boasts drivers from most capital cities in Australia, each state having dedicated trainers, administration and support staff to assist with the development of these future racers of tomorrow, sanctioned by Speedway Australia.
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