Morgan Park Historics - April 29 & 30

[DAVID PATERSON]

This weekend is the first ever Historic meeting at Morgan Park, Warwick, 200km south west of Brisbane. A combined program of lap sprints, regularity trials and circiut racing should offer something for everyone. A large field of classic sports and touring cars are entered for the regularities, an even larger field is entered for the timed sprints. Disappointingly though, there are small fields for the racing, so they have been combined into just 3 fields. The sports car races will feature just 5 cars, the historic racing car races will have just 7 cars. The highlight of the racing will surely be the Historic Touring car races. The 1.2km circuit is only licensed to practice 15 cars and race 12 and we have 12 historic touring cars entered. The only car in the pre'58 division is an Austin Lancer. The pre'65 division features two Cooper S Minis, one EH Holden 179 and one Chevy Nova 327. The remaining 7 contenders are in the '65-'72 division. These are a Mini Cooper S, my Datsun 1600, A MkII Cortina GT, a MkI Escort Lotus T/C and three LJ Torana XU-1s. Being such a small circuit we are expecting some very close racing and perhaps a few surprise results, with the little cars not being so hampered by a lack of horsepower. If you make the trek, pop into my garage and say hello, if not I'll let you know next week how I went.

[This message has been edited by DAVID PATERSON (edited 25 April 2000).]