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Celebrating The Things That Make Australia Unique
Aussies love a challenge and there's nothing better than racing to bring out our competitive nature. The following are two of the most well known Aussie races.
- Australian Melbourne Cup Horse Race
The Melbourne Cup is known as "the race that stops a nation". It's become a national institution generating more interest and zany activity than any other race in Australia.
- Australian Sydney to Hobart Yacht
Race
The Yacht Race is an icon of Australia’s summer sport, ranking in popularity with other national events such as the Davis Cup tennis and the Melbourne Cup horse race.
No yearly yachting event in the world attracts such huge media coverage
as this race. The course covers a distance of 628 nautical miles from Sydney Harbour,
NSW to Battery Point in Hobart, Tasmania.
- Australian Bathurst Motor Racing
For every day of the year but one, people drive the road along Bathurst's Mount Panorama. But when the first Sunday in October arrives, the road is taken over by fierce competitors driving the hottest V8 Supercars anywhere. The Aussie rivalry between Ford and Holden plays out on one of the most famous race tracks in the world at Mount Panorama's Bathurst 1000.
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