It’s the stuff of childhood dreams – your own private race track to tear around all day. If you’ve got three-quarters of a million dollars to spare, that dream can become a reality after a farm near the rural town of Coonabarabran has hit the market with more than 1,000 acres of backyard and a single kilometre worth of paved race track.
Sure, if you’re based in Sydney it’s not exactly around the corner, but you’ll get plenty of driving practice over the 450-kilometre journey to the property, which features an off-grid four-bedroom weatherboard house powered by both wind and solar energy. It’s also got more than 409 hectares of fantastic bushland, its own indoor heated pool (admittedly not much to look at), four dams, machinery sheds, and cattle yards if you’re looking for a career change.
The B-shaped bitumen race track is the start of the show though, and while it’s described as being designed to race motorbikes, we can easily see it hosting go-karts or even a hot hatch or two. When you consider Holden’s old test track will set you back around $30 million and just how unusual it is to find a property with such a feature, this Coonabarabran farm might be the best value race track you’ll ever see.
