Phillip Island Historics 2012

Well the Phillip Island Historic races have been and gone again. We, the public were treated to another smorgasboard of rare and beautiful cars from a variety of eras. I don’t think anyone would have been dissapointed as the quailty and variety of cars were fantastic. As usual the were dozens of Touring cars. Sports cars both production based and pure racing sports cars, Formula cars of all varieties from Formula Junior to Formula 1. All these were from the years of 1927 to 1989!
We were treated to some great racing by all categories and demonstration laps from a selection of Formula 1 cars including the 1980 Alan Jones Williams 007 Championship winning car, SurteesF1 TS9B, Alboretto’s Ferrari 156/85. Other notable cars were a March 81C, the Lola T700, a Gurney EagleT2G, McLaren M8E Can am car, the Ginetta G10 Sports car.
The highlight of the weekend for me was to see a full field of 32 F5000’s which was even rare to see during thier prime in the 1970’s. The leading bunch of these were being driven and raced hard which was fantastic to see. The highlight of these was James Davison (cousin of Will and Alex) who really works these things as they were meant to be driven (hard and fast). To see them used this way is an absolute joy!
Billy, Jackson and I even had a chance to have a go on the Go Karts on the scale model track of the Grand Prix Circuit, which was fun! All in all it was a great weekend of seeing some fantastic cars, meeting many old friends and new ones.

This is the ex Foley,Bartlett,Gardner and French car raced between 1966 and 1973. Now restored beatifully.

Another shot of this great little car

This time showing who drove it and when!

this is a stunning and simple car

There was the full 32 car field lined up on the grid at the end of the day! What a glorious sight it was!

There was even time to play on the gokarts

A great quote from a great film by a great man!

A rare car in Australia is this Lola T700

The ex Brian Redman T332 now restored and in stunning condition!

What a stunning engine these were in every respect!