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MOFFATT & FRENCH REUNITE FOR GTHO CELEBRATIONS
The famous all-Ford XY GTHO ‘front-row‘ of the 1971 Hardie Ferodo 500 grid at Bathurst will be re-formed at this year’s Phillip Island Classic Festival of Motorsport from March 18-20. Race winner Allan Moffat and his factory Ford team-mate John French will be together again at the meeting to mark the 40th anniversary of both the famous Phase III XY GTHO and its finest racing hour. Around 40 XY GT and GTHO Falcons will be on display to celebrate the historic occasion. Meanwhile a series of limited edition prints on canvas by artist Mike Harbar depicting the three leading XY GTHO Falcons of Allan Moffat, John French and Fred Gibson in ‘The Dipper’ on the first lap of Bathurst in 1971 will be auctioned at the meeting. Queenslander John French, who qualified his XY GTHO alongside Moffat for the ’71 Bathurst, is the official Patron of the 2011 Phillip Island Classic.
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Wednesday, November 4, 2009
With a record 420 competitors taking part, this weekend’s 18th Nationallube Historic Sandown (November 6-8) can claim the largest entry ever seen at the popular Melbourne circuit since it opened in 1962. As well as capacity fields in most categories, some 100 V8-engined historic touring, sports and open wheeler racing cars will compete in 16 races over the weekend. A highlight of this year’s meeting is the final and deciding round of the 2009 Biante Touring Car Masters series, with former Bathurst winners Jim Richards and John Bowe again locking horns in their Falcon Sprint and Chevrolet Camaro respectively. Three generations of the Brabham family will also be on track for a unique Speed Comparison, with Victorian Historic Racing Register Patron Sir Jack dropping the flag on his Le Mans 25-Hour race winning son Geoff in a BMW M3, his grandson and rising Formula Ford star Matthew aged 15 and four times Australian champion John Bowe in a racing GT40 replica.
Continue reading...HISTORIC CLASSIC SUPPORTS VIC BUSHFIRE TRAGEDY
Monday, February 23, 2009
Competitors and enthusiasts attending the 2009 Phillip Island Classic Festival of Motorsport from March 13-15 will support the Victorian Bushfire Appeal through a range of on and off-track activities. • Part proceeds from programme sales at the meeting will be donated towards the appeal • Motor racing legends including three-time World Champion Sir Jack Brabham, four-time Australian Touring Car Champion Bob Jane, seven-time Bathurst winner Jim Richards, two-time Australian Touring Car Champion Glenn Seton, Australian Sports Car Champion and Bathurst winner John Bowe and former driver and team owner Fred Gibson will all autograph posters at the Shannons Super Rig in the paddock for a gold coin donation • Richards, Seton and Bowe will additionally donate ‘hot laps’ to the highest bidders at a special auction held at the meeting’s Saturday night gala dinner • Laps of the Grand Prix circuit alongside Seton or Bowe in the new Nissan R35 GT-R that will be used as the ‘pace car’ on the warm-up laps for the combined Group C and Group A touring car races will also be sold • All gold coin entrance fees to view the Shannons Showroom collection of more than 100 classic sporting and muscle cars to be held in the new circuit’s new Expo Centre will go to the appeal. Combined, these initiatives are expected to represent a substantial donation by historic racing enthusiasts towards the Bushfire Relief Fund. More than 560 historic racing, sports and touring cars spanning six decades – including 18 overseas drivers from six nations – have entered the meeting, which is supported by Shannons, CoolDrive and the VACC. Practice and qualifying for all categories will take place on Friday March 13, with racing from 9.00am until 4.40pm on the Saturday and Sunday, March 14 and 15.
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Sunday, November 2, 2008
Glenn Seton made a winning return to South Australia's Mallala Motor Sport Park and South Australian Bob Middleton wrapped up his fourth-consecutive Australian Supertruck title in the penultimate round of the Shannons Nationals. Six categories took to Mallala for the ninth round of 2008, with Middleton one of three new national champions crowned over the weekend. On his 64th birthday, Middleton continued his golden run in the Tankworld Australian Supertruck Nationals, winning the championship. Middleton entered the weekend 10 points behind John Falk, but won all four races to take his fourth crown. “I'm over the moon, it's a nice little birthday present,“ Middleton enthused. “We've worked hard all year for this and the guys have done a great job to bounce back after we lost a heap of points with mechanical problems in Perth. “This weekend went really well from the outset; wrapping up our fourth straight championship here at home is a great feeling.“
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