Colin Bond OAM with Peter Robinson – Fireside Chat on 23 June 2023
Newsletter – June 2023
To each of our valued Supporters and Patrons Many of you paid Supporter and Patron subscriptions to help to kick-start your Foundation before the pandemic caused us so much concern about the future. Our founders and all our marvellous Volunteers kept at it, wore the masks and stayed with the plan progressively getting the job […]
Racing Guru: My First Bathurst
by Brian Goulding When Channel 7 began covering the Armstrong 500 at Mount Panorama, Bathurst, in 1963 I was 12. Sixty years ago, the Armstrong 500 was a 500-mile race for almost standard showroom touring cars. The previous three annual 500s took place at the fast Phillip Island circuit in Victoria, but the circuit surface […]
The Case Book of 23s
By Eli Solomon Eli goes down a slippery slope with this article that attempts to trace all the Lotus 23s that raced in South East Asia. These cars were extremely successful in both club and Grand Prix racing, winning the Grand Prix in Johore and Singapore, and fanning the flames of interest in the sport […]
Super Friendly, Super Frail
By Eli Solomon Eli takes a look at most of the Lotus cars that raced in South East Asia (and Macau) from the late 1950s until the early 1980s. These range from the ubiquitous Seven, through to the 69 open-wheeler. The circuit races in Johore, Penang, Selangor and Singapore, and many of the club events […]
Gordinis and me
by Andrew Moore I feel a bit of a fraud writing about Renaults and me. There are so many others in the Renault Car Club Australia (RCCA) who can claim more distinguished credentials in the area of Renault ownership than I can, let alone knowledge and mechanical expertise. In my 50-years of motor vehicle ownership […]
Don’t just sit in it – wear it like a glove!
by Dave Williamson, 1994 and 1995 NSW Sports 1300 State Champion 1995: Butterflies. Large flapping butterflies….so surely it must be spring?Bloody great butterflies …in my stomach.All this, while I wait on the dummy grid at Eastern Creek.Hot smells: hot oil, 100 octane Avgas being rapidly devoured by impatient engines. What’s this all about? We are […]
Shannons Auto Caffeine – 20 May
Please come along enjoy a coffee with some food and check out what’s on offer. There are motoring wonders in the Auctions not to be missed!
When the best drove everything
by Brian Goulding In today’s topflight motor racing a driver hasn’t made the big time until he or she has signed a contract which ties him or her to running in a specified number of rounds in a particular championship or series of races. Therefore, we get used to seeing our best drivers competing exclusively […]