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Historic Winton update
Sat
26 & Sun 27 May 2012
36th Historic Winton, Winton Motor Raceway, Benalla, Vic
www.historicwinton.org
Conducted by the Austin 7 Club with assistance from the
Historic Motorcycle Racing Association Vic.
Historic
Winton, Australia’s largest and most popular all-historic motor
race meeting, presents a weekend of non-stop racing featuring over
400 historic racing cars and motorbikes from the 1920s to the 1980s.
Celebrations in 2012 include plenty of birthdays:
• 110 years of Cadillac.
• 90 years of Austin Seven, Lancia Lambda, Austin 12/4.
• 85 years of A Model Ford.
• 80 years of Austin 10 and Hillman Minx.
• 75 years of Volvo, Cadillac LaSalle.
• 60 years for the Austin Healey 100, Renault 8, Austin Champ.
• 50 years of Ford Cortina, AC Cobra, Austin Freeway, Triumph
Spitfire, Morris 1100, Lotus Elan, MGB, Chrysler Valiant.
Historic
Winton highlights are:
• The ever-expanding Shannons Classic Car Park featuring car
and bike club displays, including Pre-War sporting Rileys.
• Spectator access to the Competition Paddock where all the
fabulous old racing machines are on open display.
• If you have a classic or special-interest car or bike, you’re
welcome to join the spectator car park display on the Saturday or
Sunday.
Raceway entry fees: Sat $20, Sun $30, competition paddock $5, children
14 and under n/c.
Public enquiries: Noel Wilcox ph 03 5428 2689 email noelwilcox@rocketmail.com
Sunday
27 May 2012
Invitations are extended to join in a special display on Sunday 27th
May incorporating:
• Historic Commercial and Military Vehicles - the older the
better - free entry for commercial or military vehicles 50 years and
older.
• U Bute Aussie Ute gathering for pre-1975 vehicles - with a
giveaway pack for the first 200 utility entrants, and great trophies
awarded to Aussie Utes of special interest.
Friday
25 May 2012
As part of 2012 Historic Winton weekend activities, invitations are
extended to join in the
Benalla & District Classic Car & Motorbike Tour assembling
9am on Friday 25 May at the Benalla
Art Gallery. Red plate vehicles welcome. The tour concludes with a
'Shine & Show' display outside
the Benalla Civic Centre from 3-5pm. Further information, please phone
David Lidgerwood on
03 5764 4291 or email historicwinton@hotmail.com. Proudly supported
by the RACV,
Benalla Rural City Council and The Austin 7 Club, organisers of Historic
Winton.
Posted: 30 January 2012
22nd
Phillip Island Classic - The biggest yet
A
collection of around $50-60 million worth of racing and sports racing
cars took part in the 22nd Phillip Island Classic on 18-20 March.
Historic
Racing Australia is currently compiling a thorough report on the weekend,
which will appear online soon.
AGP
Photograpic exhibition - Hilton South Wharf offically opened
On
the eve of the Phillip Island Classic around 120 guests of Historic
Racing Australia & Hilton Hotels attended a Cocktail Party in
the lobby of the Hilton Melbourne South Wharf toofficially open the
exhibition co-organised by Historic Racing Australia & Oz Link
Entertainment.
Andrew
Westercoft, CEO of the Australian Grand Prix Corporation did the honours,
and during his speech conveyed how important to the Australian Grand
Prix it is to have the Historic Demonstration & the Tasman Revival
Formula 5000 races as part of the event.
Faster,
Faster – Hilton South Wharf AGP Exhibition
Melbourne’s
new Hilton Hotel next to the Melbourne Convention Centre at South
Wharf is hosting an exhibition for the Australian Grand Prix.
The
exhibition, titled Faster, Faster will feature3 display cars and a
vast collection of period photographs. Historic Racing Australia has
assisting in securing the photographs and two of the exhibiting cars
to form the exhibition.
The
cars on display are to include the 1928 AGP winning Austin 7 racing
car, and the Dymond families beautiful polished-aluminium Cooper Mk
V.
The
photographs depict the 1960s Tasman Series, which are on loan from
The HSRCA & Vintage Racecar.
The
exhibition will be open from Friday 11 March to Thursday 31 March
in the lobby at the Hilton South Wharf. The hotel is location off
the Montague St/Charles Grimes Bridge entrance to Melbourne’s
DFO South Wharf shopping centre. The hotel welcomes the public to
visit the exhibition.
2 March 2011
Christchurch
earthquake
Historic
Racing Australia & the Australian hisotiric motor racing
community extends its thoughts and best wishes to our New Zealand
neighbours.
500
entries for the PI Classic
The
Phillip Island Classic, this year its 22nd instalment is set to continue
on its claim as being the Southern Hemisphere’s largest historic
racing event.
To
be held on 18-20 March the event will feature 4 races for each category
spread across all of Saturday and Sunday, whilst Friday is designated
for practice in the morning and qualifying in the afternoon.
Many
of the 10 racing fields have capacity (grid density) fields. The feature
race of the weekend will be for the international formula of Group
C Sports cars, the like of which competed at the Le Mans 24-hours
races throughout the 1970s & 1980s. The feature race for these
cars will be a 20 lap “endure” on Sunday afternoon.
We
understand that there are three Maserati 250Fs from other parts of
the world for the meeting, including the familiar Peter Giddings car.
Peter will no doubt be thanked across the weekend for his support
in getting the three 250Fs to the event.
For
locals, early last year saw the purchase post-auction of the 1979
Williams FW07 Formula One car by Paul Faulkner. Paul, no stranger
to the sport having raced Porsche 944s, and more recently the move
into historic racing in Formula Fords. The Williams was sold without
engine, but a re-built Cosworth DFV was sourced and race-prepared
in the UK and arrived in Australia recently. Paul and his crew have
being working tirelessly since taking ownership of the car last year,
literally re-building everything beneath its skin. Paul tells Historic
Racing Australia that the car will be at Phillip Island for its first
public track appearance where it will compete in demonstration laps
at lunchtime on each of the event’s three days.
Tickets
for the event are available from the gate on either day.
2
March 2011
35th
Historic Winton - last weekend of May this year
Historic
Winton, Australia’s largest and most popular all-historic motor
race meeting, presents a weekend of non-stop racing featuring over
400 historic racing cars and motorbikes from the 1920s to the 1980s.
If
you have a classic or special-interest car or bike, you’re welcome
to join the spectator car park display on the Saturday or Sunday.
Celebrations
in 2011 include:
• 100 years of Chevrolet
• 100 years of Stutz
• 100 years of the Indianapolis 500
• 90 years of two great French marques, Amilcar and Salmson
• 75 years of Fiat 500
• 60 years of the Triumph Mayflower and Triumph Renown
Highlights
are:
• the ever-expanding Classic Car Park featuring car and bike
club displays including Chevrolet, Stutz, Fiat 500, Triumph, Amilcar
and Salmson.
•
spectator access to the Competition Paddock where all the fabulous
old racing machines are on open display.
•
Fri 27 May - Benalla & District Classic Car & Motorbike Tour
assembling 9am at the Benalla Art Gallery; Red plate vehicles welcome;
concluding with a 'Shine & Show' display outside the Benalla Civic
Centre 3-5pm; further information phone David Lidgerwood on 03 5764
4291.
Tasman
video footage on You Tube
Enthusiast
Geoff Russell has emailed through some fabulous footage of Sports
Racing car action and F5000 action at the recent Tasman Revival meeting
held in n November at Eastern Creek. Click on the below two links
for the footage.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ot3HGgexUNs
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=O3Kxb4PcGcs
1951
& 1961 Ballarat Airfield Race Meetings
2011
marks the 50th anniversary of the last Victorian Trophy motor race
that took pplace at Ballarat Airfield as part of the 1961 Ballarat
"International Meeting".
The
recreation event is to held over the Easter long weekend in 2011 where
much lobbying has secured the Ballarat Airfield for this period.
All
the stars of the time were there - locally including Bill Patterson,
Lex Davison and Stan Jones, and internationally - Innes Ireland, Graham
Hill and Dan Gurney.
The
Easter 2011 festival will feature a number of these historic vehicles,
and will also pay tribute to the officials and spectators who made
the events so famous. A number of lead-up community events will be
held at the Ballarat Mining Exchange.
Historic
Racing Australia will be following this event, so stay tuned
for further details. If you have a car that competed in the '51 or
'61 events and are keen to participate, or are interested in becoming
involved the event organiser, John Emery is quite keen to hear from
you - johnkemery@bigpond.com
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Nov 2010
