Doug Liddle

Doug Liddle was in Go-Karting for over 30 years.  He became involved when the Barossa Go Kart Club had a dirt track behind the Nuriootpa oval.  The club saw the opportunity to expand into bitumen karting and decided to build a track on the site of the present track.
Doug, his wife Brenda and other members cleared the land and built the original track.  Over the years the circuit has been enlarged and the facilities improved.
Doug was a real enthusiast, building and racing gokarts; racing dirt track on Saturdays, then bitumen on Sundays!
Doug and his family traveled around the state racing wherever a meeting was held.  Doug raced at circuits familiar with today's karters, Mt Gambier, Whyalla and Mildura.
Karting has always been a family sport and soon he had his two daughters involved in racing as well.
Not satisfied with just racing, Doug became involved in the administration of the sport representing Barossa on the Karting Council.  He was appointed National Delegate for South Australia and for ten years traveled all over Australia to National Council meetings.
After a serious racing accident, Doug spent more time preparing his daughter's karts and being an official.  He was Clerk of Course at major championships here and interstate and well as local race meetings.
Of course Doug's heart was here in the Barossa, and with his family worked hard to make the Barossa Go Kart Club what it is today.  In recognition of Doug's contribution to karting he was made a life member of the Karting Council.
Here at the Barossa Go Kart Club we proudly have made Doug, Brenda,  his daughter Heather and her husband Arthur life members.
When Doug became ill he felt he could no longer attend the working bees or be an official, so he resigned to let other members take on the running of the club.
Sadly Doug passed away in July 1993 but his memory lives on in the race that bears his name, the Doug Liddle Memorial.

The Doug Liddle Memorial perpetual trophy was donated by St Johns Ambulance, Angaston (Doug was an ambulance officer) so his memory carries on.

Winners of the Doug Liddle Memorial

1994 Stuart Morrison	2002 Peter Zacharia
1995 Travis Cook	2003 Angelo Tarzia
1996 Stuart Morrison	2004 Paul Pittam
1997 Stuart Morrison	2005 David Baliga
1998 Stuart Morrison	2006 David Baliga
1999 Stuart Morrison	2007 David Franze
2000 James Demet	2008 Cody Price
2001 Daryl Tolmer	2009 Nicholas Karavas

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