AMRC Round 3 Queensland Raceway 17-18 May

[richie17]

Hooray the 1st of 2 rounds in my home state!
There are 7 categories racing this weekend:

• ProtoSports
• Super TT
• PCC
• OZ BOSS
• Thunder Sports
• Australian Touring Cars
• Pirelli Gran Turismo

News.

ATCC
link Warning this link contain *spoilers*.

Saillard Aiming to Continue 2008 Success Heading into Queensland Raceway
Current Australian Touring Car Champion Darren Saillard heads into the third round of the championship this weekend (May 17 and 18) at Queensland Raceway (Ipswich, QLD). Adding to Saillard’s confidence levels was the fine performance of his ex Ford Performance Racing (FPR) BA Ford Falcon V8 Supercar during its debut at the Calder Park round only a few weeks ago.

And in other news, I will be hoping on going but my sister is having a party on Saturday night and I don't think anyone will be in the right
condition to take me on Sunday. So is there anyone from the Redlands area going that I can get a lift with? I will be willing to donate money
for fuel and shout the driver in. PM me if you can help.

[rich07]

Pirelli entrylist??

[pete60]

Hope the weekend goes well, with a few more entries than the first 2 rounds.

But the constant references to Saillard's "ex FPR BA Falcon" are starting to grate. The car is an ex Glenn Seton AU, reskinned by the Youlden's as a BA 3 seater ride car dressed up in FPR colours, and now converted back to a race car. Not quite an FPR pedigree!!

[DAVID PATERSON]

This meeting is also a round of the QIPRA Club Championship. I believe the Improved Production guys have their own grid for this.

[cptkablamo]

Does anyone have a timetable and/or list of entries for this weekend???

[fordlover]

does anyone know the spectator entry cost? can't find it on the AMRC or QR websites

[00 XR8]

Originally Posted by pete60

Hope the weekend goes well, with a few more entries than the first 2 rounds.

But the constant references to Saillard's "ex FPR BA Falcon" are starting to grate. The car is an ex Glenn Seton AU, reskinned by the Youlden's as a BA 3 seater ride car dressed up in FPR colours, and now converted back to a race car. Not quite an FPR pedigree!!

Seeing that it wasn't 'possible' to convert an AU into a BA under V8Supercar rules......... how on earth do they scrutineer the Saillard car?

Knowing how the AMRC operate, they'll probably start up a category for "ex-V8Supercars that were converted to ride cars and then converted back to something else again afterwards"...........

[rms]

Originally Posted by 00 XR8

Seeing that it wasn't 'possible' to convert an AU into a BA under V8Supercar rules......... how on earth do they scrutineer the Saillard car?

What has AMRC and scrutineering got to do with V8taxi rules ?????

The class is 'touring' cars.

[B24]

Why do people continuously bag out alternatives to racing?
Does it seriously bother you that people have an alternative?
If it does, mabey you should get out a little more and enjoy life.
Like the people who actually own the cars you are complaining about do.
They get out and have some fun doing what they enjoy.
Racing,making friends, talking shop without too much politics.
Be happy, you only live once

B24

[fordlover]

well after sending them and email with no reply it seems they (QR) have updated the website

15/5/08
AMRC Update
Australian Motor Racing Championship classes race at Queensland Raceway this weekend.
View Entry List, Event Shedule & Competitor Info
Gates open 7am - Cars on track at 9.00am.
Spectator admission on Saturday is Free, Sunday $10 including entry into the paddock area to view the cars and meet the drivers.

QR website

[pete60]

Entry list link below

http://www.queenslandraceway.com.au/..._16-180508.pdf

Not overwhelming...

[cptkablamo]

Had the chance to have a quick look at the track today in transit and the Stevens Ferrari wasn't there but we did have a viper...

[00 XR8]

Originally Posted by rms

What has AMRC and scrutineering got to do with V8taxi rules ?????

The class is 'touring' cars.

When the AASA Touring Car category started, it was made up of different classes, these being for ex-V8Supercars, ex-Super Tourers, ex-Future Tourers, and ex-Group A cars. Hence, each competing car had to comply with the regulations that these categories had previously raced under. Very simple, they had good fields....... and the racing was very entertaining.

Now the category is made up of a handful of *******ised hacks that don't fit any regulations.

Do they even have scrutineering? Are there actual rules anymore?

Anyway, that's the connection between the AMRS/C and V8Supercar rules.......

[rms]

Suggest you have a look at technical rules
http://www.v8giants.com.au/

There is no mention of 'ex' anything.

Like a previous post said 'they are out there doing it'. And they are spending their own money, so if you don't like it ..... tuff !

[00 XR8]

Originally Posted by rms

Suggest you have a look at technical rules
http://www.v8giants.com.au/

There is no mention of 'ex' anything.

Cheers for that, I had thought that the V8Giants concept was meant to supplement the existing Touring Car category, not replace it. This explains the ‘evolution’ of competing vehicles, and why so many competitors with cars from categories that I mentioned earlier have deserted the ATCC recently.

Originally Posted by rms

Like a previous post said 'they are out there doing it'. And they are spending their own money, so if you don't like it ..... tuff !

Well unfortunately there aren’t too many competitors ‘out there doing it, spending their own money’. What were there, 4 cars at the last round? I didn’t come in here bagging it; I’m just trying to understand what has happened to what was, not too long ago, a very positive category.

As far as the entire AMRC goes.... Super TT, OzBoss, Protosports, the ATCC and the PCC can hardly scrape a full field together between them....... whilst the “Thundersports” class features no cars greater than 1.0L in capacity! Surely I’m not the only one a little under whelmed...........

[speedraced04]

Originally Posted by rich07

Pirelli entrylist??

here is their first prac results

1 28 Trufeo Motorsport Rod Wilson Maserati GT3 14 14 1:14.8932*
2 11 Assetval Roger Lago Porsche 997 Cup Car 13 6 1:15.2704 0:00.3772
3 88 John Teulan John Teulan Ferrari F420C 9 4 1:15.4923 0:00.5991
4 2 Kevin Miller Kevin Miller Ferrari F430 11 6 1:16.0763 0:01.1831
5 29 Trufeo Motorsport Jim Manolios Maserati GT3 15 15 1:17.2674 0:02.3742

[speedraced04]

and i see that local boy rod dawson has rained on the darren & darren show in first practice too, will be interesting to see if they can bridge the gap over the weekend and put on some good racing between the 3 of them

1 80 Rod Dawson Rod Dawson Ford 5000 8 3 1:14.6412*
2 1 Darren Saillard Darren Saillard Ford Falcon BA 5000 14 6 1:15.1693 0:00.5281
3 98 Power Plus 98 Darren Formosa Holden Commodore VX 5000 6 3 1:16.2855 0:01.6443
4 72 Pat Assaillit Damian Assaillit Ford Falcon EL 5000 7 5 1:18.0034 0:03.3622
5 44 Budget Height Access John English Mitsubishi Magna 5700 7 3 1:18.3088 0:03.6676
6 4 Shane Hunt Shane Hunt Ford Falcon AU 5000 10 9 1:18.6687 0:04.0275
7 11 Robbie Bolger Robbie Bolger Holden Monaro 5700 13 5 1:19.2797 0:04.6385
8 55 Gary Leaton Gary Leaton Monaro 5700 9 3 1:23.4173 0:08.7761
9 40 Alex Chambers Alex Chambers Commodore 5700 11 6 1:32.3876 0:17.7464

[rich07]

Originally Posted by speedraced04

3 88 John Teulan John Teulan Ferrari F420C

I see Teulan's done more mods to his 430 Challenge to make it faster! Don't know if making the engine smaller is going to help though.

[Falcadore]

Originally Posted by speedraced04

and i see that local boy rod dawson has rained on the darren & darren show in first practice too, will be interesting to see if they can bridge the gap over the weekend and put on some good racing between the 3 of them

1 80 Rod Dawson...

Copying and pasting from Natsoft is a copyright infringement - just sayin...

[blaarg]

I don't see how it's copyright infringement.

[fordlover]

it was a great day out there today, more cars would've been better but the one that turned up put on a great show, thundersports were action packed, even the last race which finished with only four cars runnign was entertaining

[Woolley]

Originally Posted by blaarg

I don't see how it's copyright infringement.

If they're producing and publishing then it might well be copyright - the website will have a notice somewhere anyway. Might be better just to post a link?

[alfacors]

Originally Posted by fordlover

it was a great day out there today, more cars would've been better but the one that turned up put on a great show

[Crash Test]

Despite the incredibly low fields, there was actually some decent racing... whoda funked that a four car race around QR could be interesting!

The Thundersports were good (especially the last race) and Rod Dawson holding out Darren Saillard for so long was a cracker too...

But seriously how long can a series that is attracting such low entry numbers carry on? Some cracking good battles between a group of keen competitors is all very good and well, but it doesn't exactly pay the bills... unless I have been massively misguided on how the economy works...

Q. What is Garry Wilmington et al up to these days?

[Prickly_Goo]

Can anyone tell me how Assaillit and Formosa went? I couldnt get out there on the weekend had visi's..