Shannon’s Summer Race Meeting – 24th October 2015
Bright blue skies and great weather for racing. Michael Henderson’s race dominating run and reliability came to an end when old tyres couldn’t keep out Andrew Gouldie in Andrew Gifford’s March 722, which is now running particularly well after a few teething issues, in race 1. A mishap in race 2 saw Michael retire for the day. This lead to a very close finish in the the WASCC championship with Lance Carwardine nipping at Michael’s heals.
Results Round 7
SETS Spring Race Meeting – 23rd August 2015
A great day with some fast times for most of the cars. Simon Barrett’s Ralt unfortunately had issues in race 1 leaving Michael to run the day out front by himself, second place all day was contested between Lance Carwardine and Glenn Caple. Sadly, at the end of this meeting, Henry Oosterbaan hung up his helmet (as far as racing goes) for a while so we won’t hear the six cylinder Holden motor outside of regularities. Allan Ould has sorted out the Aztec with it’s fastest time since it’s return to the racing scene at 67.9667. It was disappointing to see John Rowe excluded from the event due to the 130% rule, hopefully we can sort this out so we get to see more of his beautiful Cooper on the track.
Results Round 5
Autumn Classic – 11th April 2015
Our first event at Barbagallo for 2015. Autumn Classic try winter – Rain Rain Rain and then it got WET!
Good to see Murray Charnley back in action in the Lotus 23 and Glenn Swarbrick achieving 3rd outright, showing narrow tyres are a great advantage in the wet.
Results Round 2
Collie Icebreaker – 21st/22nd February 2015
Our first event for the year was held at the Collie circuit with eight Formula Classic cars and then grid numbers being made up with Formula Fords (thank you).
A great day for Michael Henderson who continuously broke the lap record with each race, setting a new best time for the track of 45.9222 seconds. And congratulations to Mike Connell for taking out the regularity event.
Results Round 1
Congratulations to the 2014 winners of the Formula Classic Handicap Championship. It looks like the three of them took out all of the competitions, rightly so as Brian and Lance were the only drivers to competed in every round and Michael was in all but one and that was due to a mechanical breakdown. A big thank you to Dick Ward for presenting the group with a fantastic perpetual trophy which will have Brian’s name engraved upon it as the first winner.
2014 Formula Classic Handicap Championship
Shannon’s WA All Historic – 25th-26th October 2014
Well what a fantastic event. A big thank you to everyone for making a huge effort to get 45 entries in (enough for three fields of cars), including all of our international and eastern states visitors who left with very fond memories of this event, the competitors in it and the WA hospitality provided.
The weekend saw some drivers and cars not seen on the track for quite a while plus a new addition, Andrew Nielson and his West, joined us for the first time. The racing in all three groups was very good with clusters of cars competing against each other throughout the fields, none more so than the lead group of four cars in the Formula Junior class, with a second covering them in all the races keeping the crowd and commentators very excited – and I am sure the drivers involved were as well. There was considerable activity in the infield garages with many a mechanic piecing back together cars that thought five races was a few too many. An unfortunate oil slick after Andrew Bryson’s new motor said “Enough” led to a massive off in the group1 race and also led to off’s in the group 2 race. The weather was very kind to us putting off any rain until after racing was finished for the day but by the end of it all I didn’t see any unhappy people, smiles were everywhere, so well done all on supporting a great event.
A special thanks to Martin Bullock (Densford Civil) for digging deep and financially supporting the event and associated activities, also to Neil McCrudden and the WARM museum for not only accommodating some of our visitors but providing cars to anyone who needed one – there were 9 WARM cars running and 1 spare. A thank you to Brian & Anne Searle for also accommodating some visitors and putting on a function for them, to ICL (transport, containers, storage) for sponsoring and arranging the movement of the container for our New Zealand competitors and finally to the WASCC and staff behind the scenes who helped co-ordinate and put on this meeting.
Results Round 7
