Photo Gallery: Historic Winton 2013 by Martin Creely

Bringing over four hundred historic racing and sports cars and bikes to Winton Motor Raceway in Benalla, Victoria, for the last weekend of May, Historic Winton is one of the largest historic motorsport events of the year.

Frequent site contributor Martin Creely was there last month for the 2013 running of Historic Winton, capturing the action on and off the track, and has very kindly shared a selection of his shots from the weekend with us. It’s a brilliant set of images and well worth checking out!
Enjoy the gallery below, and make sure to head to Martin’s website here for many more in his full gallery.
Thanks to Martin Creely for the photography.
Reminder! Entries for our Upcoming Historics at Sydney Motorsport Park Close on Sunday

Our Historic Winter at Sydney Motorsport Park event is coming up at the end of the month, and entries close this weekend on the 9th of June.
We have a few spare spots left to fill, and would love for you to join us! Just head to our listing at MotorEventEntry.org by clicking this link to enter.
If you’ve already entered, that’s awesome and we can’t wait to catch up with you! Make sure to share our entry email with your mates and get them in on the historic racing action.
Please also note that we have waived the credit card surcharge and the PayPal surcharge (for those entering online) in order to encourage use of these payment methods. Direct debit, of course, is also welcome. We still accept cheques, money orders, silver, gold and even cash, but the other methods are preferred.
Should you have any queries, feel free to contact me on (02) 9913 3662 at home or on email - nbryen@optusnet.com.au.
I look forward to seeing you there.
To enter the HSRCA Wakefield Park Summer Meeting just hit this link to our event listing at MotorEventEntry.org.
The entry pack is available as usual on our website under ‘Competitor Information’ > ‘Events & Entry Forms’ and you can get there by clicking this convenient link.
Photo Gallery & Report: HRCC Autumn Historics

Our brothers and sisters in sunny Queensland, the Historic Racing Car Club of Queensland, recently held their Autumn Historics at Morgan Park for a record entry list of historic racers.
The event included the second round of the Group A & C Heritage Touring Cars national championship, along with bumper fields for Group N, Group S/T, regularity and more.
Check out the gallery below, kindly provided by Ian Welsh of Shifting Focus Motorsport Photography, and read on for his report on the weekend.
For more from the HRCC, hit this link to their website.
And hit this link to Ian’s site for a gallery of over 300 images from the weekend.
Photography by Ian Welsh of Shifting Focus Motorsport Photography
Upcoming Events for your Calendars

A big thanks to everyone who attended our Marulan Time Trials and Come and Try Day over the weekend! We had a great day and appreciate the support.
Our next big historic racing meet is at Sydney Motorsport Park at the end of June, and there’s plenty going on to keep you entertained in the interim, with two events coming up that we’d particularly like to bring to your attention.
Up first is a club plate run on Sunday the 5th of May. Participants should assemble at the big truck parking area on the old Pacific Highway just north of the Berowa railway station. For UBD map holders itʼs around P8 on map 94; for Sydways users try E4 on map 176. Please arrive at 9:30am for a 10:00am start.
The plan is for an easy run including a stop for a lunch at a golf club or the like. Youʼll be home in plenty of time for dinner. Any questions etc to Garry Simkin on 02-9958 3935 or David Gleen on 02-9918 8092.
Then at the end of May Garry Simkin has organised one of the great drivers to attend and talk to us during our May club social meeting – John Harvey, who drove on the dirt in midgets during the sixties, raced Minis and a Twin Cam Brabham, which would be re-engined with a Repco, raced a McLaren Sports car and stomped around in various touring cars. An illustrious career that should be celebrated. This should be a very interesting evening with all areas of motorsport covered. Please attend.
Photo Gallery: International Sports Cars at Australian Grand Prix

The Australian Grand Prix is a smörgåsbord of everything motorsport and car culture, featuring something with wheels and a perpetually-exploding form of propulsion to entertain just about anyone.
This year the event featured plenty to keep fans of historic motorsport entertained, with the annual historic demonstration fully stocked and a new addition in the form of the Total Oil International Sports Cars race.
The Total Oil International Sports Cars event featured monstrous historic machines from the golden era of sports car racing, such as an 8.8 litre March 717, Porsche’s 935, 936 and 956, and an 8800cc McLaren M8F.
The soggy Saturday that overwhelmed Albert Park and saw the Formula One qualifying delayed meant that race one for the International Sports Cars was cancelled, but the cars took to the track on Sunday and put on a stunning show for spectators.
19-year-old Michael Lyons took victory in the race in the aforementioned March, followed by Alex Davison in a 936 and Russell Kempnich in a 956C. Aussie racing legend Rusty French was fifth in his Porsche 935.
This photo gallery from the event comes from photographer Greg Llewellyn of Narra Photography, who has kindly offered to share his work with us. Make sure to hit this link and head to his website for more.
Thanks to Greg Llewellyn of Narra Photography for the photos.
Photo Gallery: Phillip Island Classic by Brent Murray

Our Victorian brothers, the VHRR, put on their annual Phillip Island Classic a week ago and brought together an enormous and varied collection of historic racing and sports cars for a hot weekend of historic motorsport at the iconic circuit.
Our friend Brent Murray of At Speed Images was there to soak in the action, and has kindly prepared this gallery of photographs for us to check out.
Enjoy the gallery below, or over on the gallery page here, and make sure to visit the At Speed Images Facebook page here for more!
Thanks to Brent Murray for the photography, check out At Speed Images here.
Summer Historics Photo Gallery: Peter Schell

Our third photo gallery from our recent Wakefield Park Summer Historics heads back out to the track for another look at the historic motorsport action, thanks to long time HSRCA photograher Peter Schell.
Check out more of his work on our ‘Gallery‘ page and in the Oily Rag.
Photography by Peter Schell.
Summer Historics Photo Gallery: Richard Taylor

We’ve taken a wander through the pits and paddock, now let’s head out to the track for a look at the historic racing action at Wakefield Park, thanks to Richard Taylor.
For more, or to order prints, please head to Richard’s website here.
Photography by Richard Taylor.
Summer Historics Wrap Up and Photo Gallery

We’re back from another magic weekend of motorsport with our mates, and that means it’s time to sit back, check out some of the photos and reminisce.
Goulburn being Goulburn, our Summer Historics got off to a decidedly unsummery start, with the chilly circuit blanketed in a fine layer of horizontal drizzle throughout Saturday. Thankfully it was also adorned with a magnificent collection of historic sports and racing cars and a happy group of people tinkering, socialising and racing, so nobody paid the weather too much attention.

The soggy circuit kept things interesting for our drivers, who took to the track with vigor and shook off the cobwebs of the Summer break with glee. Everyone did an impressive job of keeping things pointed forwards, or at least travelling in a generally-forwards direction with a healthy dose of opposite lock and a generously-applied right boot.
And when the weather improved for Sunday’s races, everyone put the dry circuit to good use and sent the times tumbling.
Thanks to all of our entrants for preparing their cars so beautifully, and putting on an exciting and safe weekend’s racing! It was, as always, a joy to see you and your cars out and about putting on a spot of historic motorsport.

As it was to take a slow wander through the pits and paddock, which were as action-packed as the track and buzzing with gossip, banter and a welcoming, social and happy atmosphere all weekend long.
We, and I’m sure everyone involved in the event, would like to extend a huge and heartfelt ‘THANK YOU!’ to all of the organisers, entrants, spectators and especially the volunteers who dedicate such energy and passion to making these events possible. We are extremely grateful for your tireless and selfless support of historic racing and the HSRCA.
As fun and exciting as the racing is, and as lovely as the pits, paddock and cars are to explore, it’s our mates that bring us back to these events time and time again, so a special ‘THANK YOU!‘ to everyone for coming along, getting involved and putting on a brilliant weekend!

Make sure to check out our first photo gallery from the event, which is online on the ‘Gallery‘ page here, and keep an eye on the site over the coming weeks as we endeavour to bring you all the content that we can muster from the event.
HSRCA All Historic Summer Wakefield Park 2013: Seth Reinhardt
We love to promote the work of our many talented mates, so if you have photos, video, or stories from the weekend and would like to share them on the club website, send an email to seth@hsrca.com, or drop by the club Facebook page and say hi.
Up next? All Historic Winter at Sydney Motorsport Park on the 29th and 30th of June. Stay tuned to the site for more information as the event develops.
Entry Pack for Wakefield Park All Historic Summer February 2013

Entry packs for our upcoming Wakefield Park All Historic Summer race weekend, coming this February 22-25, were sent out early this year. Additionally, the entry form, supplementary regulations (read them), and entry letter are available for download right here on the club website.
To enter the HSRCA Wakefield Park Summer Meeting:
- Click this link: www.motorevententry.org or type it into your browser
- If you are new to the system, click ‘Create an Account’ and follow the prompts – wait for a confirmation email in your normal email, then go back to the MotorEventEntry website,
- Go to ‘Toolkit’ and fill in your details, cars and team,
- Log on to the system using your MotorEventEntry ID and password,
- Click ‘Upcoming Events’, view the HSRCA Wakefield Park 2013 Summer meeting and then click ‘Enter Event’. You can pay by direct debit, cheque or credit card. If you pay on-line by credit card (via Paypal) the usual 3% fee will be waived.
You will also find the entry pack available for download by clicking the handy links below, or right-clicking and selecting save as, or by heading to our Entry Forms page here.
Wakefield Park February 2013 Entry Form [DOC]
Wakefield Park February 2013 Supplementary Regulations [PDF]
Happy Holidays!

As we settle down to enjoy a spectacular Sydney summer and head off to join our loved ones in sharing these happy holiday days, we’d like to send out a huge and extremely heartfelt ‘THANKS!’ to our wonderful community.
So ‘THANKS!’ to each and every one of you; volunteers, organisers, fans, friends, families and competitors alike. You support and nurture our historic racing adventures, and each other, and give us bountiful opportunities to enjoy our cars and very special friendships. We are deeply grateful!
We wish everyone a brilliant holiday season and an even better New Year and look forward to seeing you all very soon!
Tasman Revival Wrap-Up and Photo Galleries

We’re back once again from an absolutely immense and unquestionably tremendous weekend of historic motorsport, and have had a week to catch up with every day life and put together a neat collection of awesome coverage of the Tasman Revival. So let’s take a look at how it all played out.
Sydney Motorsport Park greeted us with open arms on Wednesday, as an incredibly diverse and storied collection of historic racing and sports cars began arriving at the track from around the world. Containers were unpacked, trailers unloaded, road-registerable racers rolled in and people got down to the details of preparing for four full days of racing historic cars.

Sydney Motorsport Park’s upgraded facilities were a joy to settle into for the weekend for all involved, and the Garage Cafe, corporate boxes and media centre only got more wonderful as the weather began to heat up over the course of the event.
The historic action got under way for private practice on Thursday, and had the track singing until early on Sunday evening. The tight but fair and considerate racing was a joy to spectate and with cars mostly pointed in the right direction on the black stuff, the events rolled on remarkably smoothly.

The feature Tasman Revival event was a sight to behold on Sunday, with the massive grid filling the main straight of Sydney Motorsport Park with a particularly alluring sparkle in the sunshine. Wonderful performances of the Australian and New Zealand national anthems were an inspiring way to kick off the race, which, after a bit of delay, fulfilled its promise in an exciting and beautifully-driven manner.

The Formula 5000s were, as always, as spectacular to watch as they are wonderful to listen to, and the brave drivers who flung them around the track put on a tremendous display.
As did the entirety of drivers who took to the track over the weekend in all historic classes. Sports cars, racing cars and vintage cars all weree immaculately prepared, raced to match and made an irreplaceable contribution to this very special event. We thank you all for getting involved, and especially for braving the particularly fierce sun over the weekend!

We’d also like to thank you all for making the pits, paddock and dummy grids a magical place to explore; full of stunning machines, good friends and all the tinkering and socialising that goes along with them.
Most importantly, we, and I’m sure everyone involved in the event, would like to extend our most immense and heartfelt ‘THANK YOU!’ to all of the organisers, entrants, spectators and especially the volunteers who dedicate such energy and passion to making these events possible. We are extremely grateful for your tireless and selfless support of historic racing and the HSRCA.

As we so often say, it’s the good friends, great people and camaraderie that make these events so wonderful. We’d like to thank everyone for coming along and getting involved. We may put together the framework, but it’s all of you who make the event!
We’ve had an absolute smorgasbord of photo galleries come through this week, and you can check ‘em all out below or on the HSRCA gallery page here. Thanks to all of the photographers who were so diligent in their coverage and quick to share it with everyone here! Make sure to check out their individual news posts, which have directions and contact details for their official websites and full galleries.
Photo Gallery: Jeremy Braithwaite
Photo Gallery: Christopher Dobie of Southern Drive
Photo Gallery: Roderick Mackenzie
Photo Gallery: Brent Murray of At Speed Images
Photo Gallery: Seth Reinhardt of the HSRCA
Tasman Revival 2012: Tom Taylor
We love to promote the work of our many talented mates, so if you have photos, video, or stories from the weekend and would like to share them on the club website, send an email to seth@hsrca.com, or drop by the club Facebook page and say hi.
Up next? A relaxing holiday season! Then it’s all on again for 2013 at Wakefield Park in February. And we can’t wait to catch up with everyone there!

Photo Gallery: Muscle Car Masters

Muscle car masters took place at Sydney Motorsport Park back in September, and had an awesome collection of historic sports and racing cars out on the track, doing what they do best.
We were there telling the world about next month’s 2012 Tasman Revival, and Riccardo Benvenuti was there capturing the action on the track. Check out his photos below and the larger gallery on our ‘Photo Gallery‘ page here, and make sure to head to his website here for more.
Photography thanks to Riccardo Benvenuti, www.pricelessimages.ifp3.com
Spring Historics Wrap Up and Photo Gallery
We’re back from an awesome historic racing event, and that means it’s time to kick back and reminisce about a sunny weekend spent with good friends and a marvelous collection of historic sports and racing cars.
Wakefield Park greeted us with open arms on Saturday and produced a wonderfully warm and sunny weekend; an extremely pleasant backdrop for a weekend’s racing, tinkering and socialising.
And we took full advantage of it, filling the track with historic racing action that didn’t let up until drivers had had their fill late on Sunday afternoon. The racing was smooth and exciting, and everyone did an excellent job of enjoying their cars and some spirited competition without straying too far beyond the raggedy edge.
As always, it’s a joy to see these lovely old machines out there on the track doing what they do best, so thanks to all of our drivers for their efforts in preparing and racing them so beautifully!
Wakefield Park tends to inspire the most magnificent collections of pre-1930s, ’30s, ’40s and ’50s historic racing and sports cars, and we’ve often held JKL feature events there to great success. This weekend’s event was no exception and our JKL feature was extremely well attended, with some marvelous, rare and famous cars adorning the pits, paddock and track and being put to good use by their drivers in a busy and exciting weekend’s racing.
One of the most excellent aspects of historic racing is the unparalleled access it provides to the pits, paddock, cars and drivers, and this weekend was a stunning example of that. The atmosphere was fun, relaxed and friendly, and it was a joy to explore and chat your way around the grounds of Wakefield Park.
Most importantly, we, and I’m sure everyone involved in the event, would like to extend a huge and heartfelt ‘THANK YOU!’ to all of the organisers, entrants, spectators and especially the volunteers who dedicate such energy and passion to making these events possible. We are extremely grateful for your tireless and selfless support of historic racing and the HSRCA.
As much as we love the cars and racing, it’s good mates, good people and camaraderie that make these events such great fun and so rewarding. So thanks to everyone for coming along, getting involved and putting on an excellent event!
The first of our photo galleries from the event are online on our ‘Gallery‘ page, and you can hit the following link to go straight to them:
HSRCA All Historic Spring Wakefield Park 2012: Seth Reinhardt
HSRCA All Historic Spring Wakefield Park 2012: Richard Taylor
Photo Gallery: Spring Historics at Wakefield Park by Peter Schell
We love to promote the work of our many talented mates, so if you have photos, video, or stories from the weekend and would like to share them on the club website, send an email to seth@hsrca.com, or drop by the club Facebook page and say hi.
And up next? The 2012 Tasman Revival! The Tasman Revival is one of Australia’s premier historic motorsport events, and it’s shaping up to be an absolutely massive weekend. We can’t wait!
You’ll be able to find all of the information that you’ll need to get involved right here on the club website, or you can head to the dedicated Tasman Revival website as well. Head to www.tasmanrevival.com and check back often as it’ll be full of great content and useful information for the event.
Thanks to Richard Taylor for his photography. Hit this link to head to his website for many more photos, and to organise prints.
Photo Gallery: Tasman Revival Display at the 2012 Eastern Creek Classic

We spent a sunny Sunday at Sydney Motor Sport Park this past weekend, enjoying the huge selection of classic cars on display at the 2012 Eastern Creek Classic and chatting about the 2012 Tasman Revival!
Plenty of cool people stopped by to chat and enjoy the cars and our display, and we had a great day talkin’ Tasman Revival and classic cars. We have a few photos from the day for you to check out, and you can enjoy them below, along with a few more over in the full gallery.
Photo Gallery: 2012 Winton Festival of Speed

Celebrating the tin-top racing of the Brock, Moffat, Bond and Geoghan eras, the 2012 Winton Festival of Speed brought together a wonderful collection of historic racing and sports cars for a festival of historic motorsport over the 10th, 11th and 12th of August.
Martin Creely was there, complete with his considerable photographic talents, to capture all of the action both on and off the track and has very kindly allowed us to share a gallery of photographs on the site. It’s an excellent snapshot into a wonderful weekend of historic motorsport, and well worth a look!
Enjoy the gallery below and make sure to head to his website for many, many more in his full gallery.
A huge thanks to Martin Creely for the photographs!
Head to VHRR.com for more on the Winton Festival of Speed
Photo Gallery: Historic Racing by the Sydney Photo Fun Meetup Group

Sydney Photo Fun is a Meetup group which promotes learning and practicing photography by getting out into the world, taking photos and sharing the experience with a like-minded and fun group of people. The group joined us at Sydney Motor Sport Park for our recent winter historics event, and have kindly provided some of their shots for display here on the website.
Some really interesting perspectives can come from a group of creative people, so we’re really pleased to be able to share their work with you here. Head to our gallery page by clicking this link for the full selection of their photographs.
There are plenty more to enjoy, so make sure to click this link and head to their Meetup gallery. If you’re interested in photography or the group, this link will take you to to their page where you can check it all out and get involved.
Special thanks to Annette, Wendy Atkins, Jim Brownett, Remko ten Bruggencate, Charlene Carpenter, Andrew Jager, Michelle McCue, Fiona Pine, Neil Scott, Michael Stevens, Rob Techera and George Wong.
Previously, at Eastern Creek..

There are just four days between us and a big weekend of historic motorsport at the recently-renovated Sydney Motor Sport Park. So, to keep ourselves occupied until it’s time to pack up our historic sports and racing cars and head out to the track with our mates, let’s take a look back at what went down the last time we visited the circuit formally known as Eastern Creek.
Our previous event at Sydney Motor Sport Park took place back in the golden summer of 2011. It got off to a soggy start, but soon the sun was out to shine on a wonderful collection of classic racing machinery which kept the track roaring and the pits and paddock buzzing for an excellent weekend. Particularly busy were the guys and gals in Group S, who put on some exciting and well-driven endurance racing in their feature event.
Take a minute to click through the links below for the stories and photos which tell the story of the weekend:
Eastern Creek Historic Summer Photo Gallery: Pits and Paddock
HSRCA All Historic Summer Eastern Creek 2011
HSRCA Historic Summer Eastern Creek 2011: Track Action
HSRCA Historic Summer Eastern Creek 2011: Richard Taylor
To check out what we got up to this time last year, click this link.
And click this link for all of the information you’ll need to prepare for the upcoming weekend of historic motorsport.
As for our next visit to Sydney Motor Sport Park – it’s the 2012 Tasman Revival and it’s coming this November 23rd, 24th and 25th, 2012. It’s going to be huge!
























































































































































