Dubbo Kart Club is down a valuable asset after Saturday's severe storm smashed its grounds, where hours earlier competitors had gathered.
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A large vinyl cover over the top of the out grid had "collapsed", club treasurer Frank Cross said.
Trees at the venue located at Brocklehurst were also torn apart by the wild weather, with wind gusts at the Dubbo airport weather station recorded at speeds as high as 106km/h.
"We've copped what you'd call a mini-cyclone virtually," Mr Cross said.
"It's just come through in a strip and it's torn limbs off trees and trees down, and it's destroyed our out grid.
"Where our out grid is that you go on to the track, there was a big vinyl cover over the top of that, it's blown that completely down, it's collapsed.
"And then there was a real big pine tree right near the front gate, it blew it over and it's taken out the fence and some signs and different things like that.
"But the major damage is the covering on the out grid, that's our worst thing, and the next thing will be a working bee to clean up all the trees."
Despite the damage, the club could have fared worse.
...if it had hit two or three hours earlier, it could have been quite disastrous.
- Club treasurer Frank Cross
It held a successful race meeting on Saturday, with 55 entries, but everyone had left by five or six o'clock, Mr Cross said.
"...when you look at some of the trees that are down, and the branches that are down, some of us were pitted under those trees or beside those trees, so if it had hit two or three hours earlier, it could have been quite disastrous," he said.
The club had sought a quote for the cost of repairing the cover and would make a claim to its insurance company, Mr Cross said.
The facility was temporarily closed because of the damage, but the timing could have been worse.
"No, we're really lucky in one respect that Saturday was our last race meeting for the season," Mr Cross said.
"So it's only anyone who wants to come and practise or any of the members who want to go out and use the track.
"The track... will only be closed until we can get the trees all cleaned up and tidied and remove this cover off the out grid."
The club welcomes new members to the sport, and Mr Cross says karting is a good activity to get kids involved in.
"[At the weekend], we had about a dozen kids who were relatively new to kart racing out there," he said.