The quarterly magazine Edition 01 Nov 2015

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Queensland Raceways more than just Racing

LAKESIDE RALLYCROSS DEBUT

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QUEENSLAND RACEWAY NOVEMBER 6-7 QRDC Round 6 14 QR Moto Ride Day 15 QRFX Club 21 V8 Race Experience 22 AM: Driving Events PM: Porsche Club Qld 28 QR Moto Ride Day 29 V8 Race Expereince

DECEMBER 5 V8 Race Expereince 6 QR Moto Ride Day 12 AM: General Practice PM: Ipswich Open sprints Rd 6 13 AM: V8 Race Experience PM: Thankyou Day 20 QR Moto Ride Day

PAGE 04 IPSWICH CLASSIC

PAGE 06 V8’S IGNITE IPSWICH

PAGE 08 KENNY DOMINATES FESTIVAL OF SPORTS AND RACING

PAGE 10 ROLL RACING TAKING RACING OFF THE STREETS

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LAKESIDE PARK RACEWAY NOVEMBER 7 QR Moto Ride Day 14 Extreme Rally Cross 15 All American

Thanks Giving 21 AM: General Practice PM: Lakeside Street Sprints Rd 6 22 Top Gear Rd 4 29 Lakeside Off Street Drags

DECEMBER 5 AM: General Practice PM: Lakeside Open Sprints rd 6 6 Time Attack 13 QR Moto Ride Day 20 Small Wheels Sunday (LPDTC)

full calendar at www.calendar.qldraceways.com.au

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PACE WINS LORD OF THE LAKE

PAGE 14 YAMAHA TURN TABLES ON HONDA

PAGE 16 QMSC: KEEP OUR PERMANENT FACILITIES

PAGE 18 GLENNY WINS LAKESIDE RALLYCROSS

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Kennedy Ignites IPSWICH CLASSIC

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rett Kennedy driving a Holden Commodore has proven the driver of the weekend with a top class driving display in the Queensland Touring Car Championship, taking four wins at the Weekends Ipswich Classic at Queensland Raceway. The Popular Classic event saw over 150 cars competing over the two days across nine racing categories.

Kennedys victory was enough to secure him the 2015 QTCC championship with his closest rival 2014 Champion Karl Begg in his BMW managing only seventh for the round. The challenger duties in the final round were left to Brett Boulton in his BMW taking a string of four, third places with Justin Anthony rounding out the podium for the weekend. Murray Kent

was the unlucky one taking three second places but a DNF in race three put fourth overall. Class B was taken out by Garry Hawgood in his HSV wining all four races with Ricky McDougall in a Commodore second from Andrew Knight in his Datsun 1600 in third.

The Well Pro Production Sports One hour was comfortably taken out by Geoff Fane in his Dodge Viper. Fane lead home by more than 20 seconds a trio of 911 GT3’s of Hennig, Sparks and McFadden. A DNF from the Ginetta of Darren

Kennedys victory was enough to secure him the 2015 QTCC championship.

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Berry robbed him of outright Victory for the weekend with wins in race one and two putting him second overall for the weekend. The Outright Victory for the weekend went to Hennig with Fane manging fourth outright after not finishing race one. Brian Ferrabee was the First of the MX5’s home in the one hour ahead of Jeff Hulme.

Ben Simpson nearly took a perfect weekend in the HQ’s winning three of the fourth races on offer. Mick McCloud was the only driver who could stop Simspon taking victory in race two before not finishing for the rest of the weekend. Brock Mitchell claimed second spot for the weekend with two seconds and two thirds and Jason Levitt stood on the last podium spot with three third place finishes.

The Formula Vee’s was clean swept

by Paul Mantiet backing up from his great form at the last round at Lakesdie Park. Curtis Power and Ken Taylor once again provide strong opposition for Manteit the pair traded second place finishes with Porter claiming second for the weekend. Mantiet has a commanding lead going into the final round for 2015 and looks set to claim the championship.

The Excel Championship continued its reputation as a hard fought Championship with Brett Parish taking his third round win for 2015.

The Excel Championship continued its reputation as a hard fought Championship with Brett Parish taking his third round win for 2015 and extending his lead to 50 points in the championship. Jason Lansdell managed to bring Parish’s run of 6 race wins in a row to an end by 0.2 of a second in race three then backed up and took victory again in race four. Lansdell finished second for the round from Michael Tuckwood who took a second in race one and then finished off the last three races with third place.

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Peter Baguley didn’t have it all his own way in Group N. The Torana driver won race one and two but was beaten home in race three by Allen Boughen in his Mercury Comet. Wayne Stratford was third overall holding out Norm Singelton and David Street.

The Gemini’s saw Nick Rangeley take a clean sweep of victories ahead of Ben Tomlin and Corey Willis. Willis took second place in race one but Tomlin turned the tables and cleaned up second in the next three races. Gregg Chesterfield

managed to sneak onto the podium in race two and three but it was only good enough for fourth overall.

Charlie O’Brien wrapped up the 2015 Trans Am title with four victories over the weekend. Brett Curran looked likely to be best of the rest after two second place finish but failed to finish the third race with problems which saw him out for the rest of the weekend. Craig Harris took second place in race three and four in his Mustang with john English in the Pontiac finishing third overall.

Other winners over the weekend were Greg Willis, Michael Kulig and Grant Spaninks all taking class victories in the Racer Industries Classic Sports Sedans, with Spaninks and Kulig clean sweeping while Willis was only beaten in race one by Kulig’s father George in his Monte Carlo.

The next racing event at Queensland Raceway will be Round 6 of the QRDC on November 7 & 8.

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he recent Coates Hire Ipswich Supersprint saw Prodrive Racing Australia continue their domination of the 2015 V8 Supercars Championship, with three strong results over the course weekend. Qualifying for Race

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Prodrive did well finally taking three of the top five positions.

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Winterbottom again blitzed the start and flew off into the distance in the FG X, taking a great win in the first of the two 20 lap races, while Mostert made a poor start and was left in a battle with Scott McLaughlin, Shane van Gisbergen and Craig Lowndes. McLaughlin finally finished second 0.377 secs in arrears, while Lowndes got by both the last lap saw for almost the entire race, and on the final lap Lowndes got by both van Gisbergen and Mostert on the final lap to take the minor podium

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Second of the sprint races saw Lowndes take pole in the Triple Eight Holden. placing. Second of the sprint races saw Lowndes take pole in the Triple Eight Holden, ahead of Winterbottom and Mostert, and off the line it was Lowndes who got the best jump, but he ran wide at T1 and Frosty slipped up the inside to grab a lead he never relinquished. Lowndes held on for second 0.88sec behind the winner, Prodrive did well finally taking three of the top five, after Mostert finished third with David Reynolds fourth in the Bottle O Ford. Shane van Gisbergen did not have a repeat of the first race, which started bad as he stalled on the grid

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from his 22nd starting position; that bought out a safety-car. Defending champion Jamie Whincup was fifth, and jumped the HRT's Garth Tander to seventh in the Championship.

Todd Kelly finished sixth ahead of Will Davison. Following two not so perfect starts, PRA opted to change a clutch in the #6 Pepsi Max FG X, and after securing pole position, his seventh of the season to date, they got the desired results, as Mostert won the start and ran away into the distance to take a great win in the 65 lap feature event. Second to Mostert

was Lowndes, and still looking a championship threat, while third was Winterbottom, who now holds a 256 point lead over Lowndes in the title chase. Behind the top three placegetters was David Reynolds who did well to greet the flag fourth in the Bottle O Racing PRA Ford, and fifth in the HRT Commodore was Garth Tander after he had a real dice with his teammate James Courtney later in the race. Post race v8supercars. com.au reported Courtney as saying he admitted to having a cramp in his right calf, an a late battle with the brake pedal, that cost him a better result. But at least he avoided another run-in with his team mate, Tander. After qualifying fourth, Jamie Whincup disappointed in the #1 Triple Eight Holden, as he had dropped to eighth at the finish.

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ALEX KENNY STARS AT LAKESIDE PARK’S FESTIVAL OF SPORTS AND RACING

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lex Kenny clean swept all the races at the Festival of Sports and Racing on the weekend at Lakeside Park Raceway.

Kenny travelled from Sydney to take on a good field of Sports car in the Queensland Sports and Racing Championship. In his Chiron LMP3 Kenny managed to take Victory in all five races over the weekend. Kenny was impressive just shy of dipping under the 50 second barrier in the third race. Simon Cilento managed to take second in all five races in his radical SR3. Third place had the Minetti of Stuart Patterson holding down the fort for the first 4 racers of the day before Neville McKay pipped him to take the last podium place in the final race.

The event also featured round X of the Keema Excel Championship.

Hard racing was the feature of the excel Championship round with two feature racers of 30 minutes keeping the endurance theme on from last rounds 1 hour race at Queensland Raceway.

Brett Parrish and Michael Tuckwood battled for the lead through out the round. Race 4 being a standout race with Parish taking victory on the last corner ahead of Tuckwood after a ding dong battle all race between the pair.

The Excels of Luke Weber and Nigel Statham came together in the eastern loop just as the Tuckwood and Parrish arrived, with Tuckwood leading at the time. Michael went to the left and Brett ducked to the right, but as the two of them re accelerated down the hill onto the straight, it was Parrish who had the inside run on to the straight and went onto take the win.

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The two had passed each other many times, with Tuckwood re passing Parrish straight away each time. Parrish had led the first lap but left the track exiting hungry corner and dropped back to the mid pack. His drive back to the front saw some slick passes as Tuckwood put his head down and tried to keep the gap.

Front runner from the earlier racers Steve Hay was excluded with a technical infringement that let Jason Landsell take the final podium position.

The Italian Challenge was a one horse affair a prancing horse at the hands of Peter Jones. Jones took victory in all five races convincingly in his Ferrari F430 with the rest of the pack to battle it out for the minor places. The Alfetta of Mark Jackson managed to hold out the rest of the pack for a two second places when Maika Ter Horst Fiat 124 had mechanical issues after taking second in the first two races. Leonard Watson in a Ferrari 308 GTB grabbed a second ahead of Mark Jackson in race 3 whilst Jackson got the better in the other races taking home three third place finishes.

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class was dominated earl by David Kent in his Chevron with a tough battle between James Corbett and Ryan Campbell both in Formula Fords. Kent had a mechanical failure that let Corbett take victory in the second race but Kent bounced back to take victory in the remanding three races. Corbett took second in the remaining two races but was only able to finish tenth in the final race.

Harrison Jones put in a sterling drive to take second place in the final race in his formula ford with Ryan Campbell once again finishing on the podium.

Brett Parrish and Michael Tuckwood battled for the lead through out the round.

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The Formula Vee took to Lakeside for four races which saw Paul Manteit take victory in all four racers. Curtis Porter put in a good driver to take three second places Ken Taylor took a pair of third places.

The Next racing Event at Queensland Raceways is on October 17/18 at Queensland Raceway for the Ipswich Classic. The Ipswich Classic will feature Categories for the weekend include Trans Ams, Production Sports Cars 1 Hour Enduro, Classic Sports Sedans, Formula Vee, HQ Holdens, Queensland Touring Car Championship, Excel Cup and Geminis.

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Roll Racing TAKES RACING OFF THE STREETS

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ne of the rising social problems of young people and automobiles is illegal street racing. With the popularity of movies such as the Fast & the Furious illegal street racing has become more prevalent in our community. But that changed on a Saturday Night in September when Queensland Raceway launched its first of many Saturday Night Roll Racing with its aim to take the street racers off the streets and put them in a safe and legal environment. Roll Racing is a concept that started in the US a few years ago has aided in removing illegal street races. Illegal street racing sees a moving road block of cars driving down the motorways where two cars will challenge each other in a high speed rolling drag race.

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Queensland Raceways CEO John Tetley said “Street racing is a social problem that can only be addressed by coming up with solutions that utilise a purpose built facility to take the danger out of the activity. Queensland Raceway is the perfect choice to conduct roll racing and gives street racers a place to challenge their mates without the dangers to themselves or other with illegal street racing.”

Mr Tetley went on to say “We have provided an affordable place for drifting which has significantly reduced the level of street drifting but now we see young

people moving away from drift and into rolling street racing. Saturday Night Roll Racing aims is to reduce the amount of Illegal Street racing in much the same way as our drift program did” This Saturday Night will kick off the season for Roll Racing with Queensland Raceway making the investment to help reduce the level of Illegal Street Racing. The investment sees participants costs kept down to $50 per person.

Drivers will need a racers licences which costs $55 per annum or $20 for the day.

Drivers will be able to line up

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depending on who they want to race.

If you have a mate you want to race follow each other around and line up in the Race Your Mate line or if you want to take on anyone line up in the all comers lane, then the official at the head of lanes will send you both off together. Both cars will drive down the staging area together and will roll around turn 6 beside each other at around the 40km speed then once both cars are side by side the starter will turn the lights from Red to Green and that will signal the start of the race down the front straight to the finish line to see who wins. Then participants can go back and line up again for their next run, with unlimited runs within the time frame.

A helmet to AS1698 standard and long pants and sleeves and covered footwear is required. All drivers need to sign on in the race control office from 5pm Drivers Briefing will be at 5.45pm with the Track open from 6pm. Cars need to be registered and required to have working lights. Next Rool Racing is November 21st.

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WINS LORD OF THE LAKE

ohn Pace took out the 2015 Lord of the Lake with the closest time to a Lap Record over the weekend at the iconic Lakeside Park Raceway. Pace lived up to his name riding his Yamaha to a 1min7.9 second lap whilst also taking out the Light Weight 250 class in a fantastic display of riding in front of a good crowd last weekend.

The Lord of the Lake race debut this year at Lakeside after an absence of a number of years and attracted over 90 Bikes and an enthusiastic crowd. It featured both period sidecars and bikes around the 2km Lakeside Circuit itself stepped in motor racing history across a patchy weathered September weekend.

The weekend kicked off with the ever popular sidecars with Marston and Torr aboard their Harley Davidson thrilling the crowd as the battled for

control of the bike as they came over the rise coming out of turn 2 each lap.

Marston and Torr eventually took the victory ahead of Milton and Butler aboard a Triumph with McKenzie and Torr third on their Norton Atlas. Period four was won in dominate fashion

by Donai and Menzies as they showed they were in top form leading into next month’s Australian titles at Mallala in South Australia.

Terry Kavney beat home Guy Vickerman in Period two both aboard BSA Silver Stars while it was the Honda of Graeme Lawrence that took out the weekend over the Yamaha’s of Brian McGrath and John Eastwood in the period four Ultra-Light weight 125’s. Period five was the hottest contested category of the weekend with James Barclay on his Honda winning the weekend despite

The Lord of the Lake race debut this year at Lakeside after an absence of a number of years.

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Jason Tester wining two of the three races on his Kawasaki. Steve Gordon took out the first race victory but failed to finish the third.

In period three Junior 350 class Brett Dougdale on a Ducati won the weekend while Brent Paul took out period four and Brian McGrath winning period five on his Yamaha TZ. The period three Light Weight category was won by Peter Morrow on a Ducati Monza.

Period four Light Weight 250 was take out by Steven Daw on his Cotton Telstar ahead of Terry Kavney on his Bultaco Purstro while Jason Tester went one better in Period 5 Light Weight beating home Trevor Liversidge. In period six 250 Production Glenn Chandler on his Honda CB RR took out all three races ahead of Craig Harms and Graeme Lawrence.

Period three Senior 500 was won by the BSA mounted Bruce Marston ahead of another BSA of Fred Can Loenen with the Norton of Mark Jones in third.

Period three Unlimited was won by the Triumph of Brian Holzigal staging off Glen Challis after he took the final two race victories on his Vincent.

In period four Senior 500 Mark Jones on his Honda took victory over Brad Phelan on a Yamaha with Phelan taking victory in race two and three but was cut short with a mechanical problem whilst leading in race one. In period 5

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John Downs dominated Period four Unlimited on his BMW. Bob Garner on his Ducati beat home the other Ductai in the field of Michael Bryan with the Yamaha of Michael Anthony finishing in third for the weekend.

Period four Formula 750 race one was taken out by the Ducati of Craig Harms but he couldn’t hold off David Reeves on the BMW who bounced back to take the win in race two and three of the weekend with Brian Holzigal putting in a consistent effort for the second step on the podium.

John Downs dominated Period four Unlimited on his BMW while Cameron Huxley managed to hold of Steven Otter for second and third respectively.

The 2015 Lord of the Lake was deemed a success by all that attended and is certain to grow each year as the event establishes itself in the framework of classic Motorcycle events in Australia. Queensland Raceway’s General Manager Keith Lewis said “The

Lord of the Lake has certainly shown the motorcycle community that great Motorcycle racing can take place at Lakeside and a special thanks must go to the Queensland Early Motorcycles Sporting Club for their support of this event”. The 2015 event was attended by over 90 bikes with more than 2,000 spectators across the weekend enjoying the motorcycle racing activities. The date of the 2016 event will be announced in the coming weekends along with the full 2016 Queensland raceways racing calendar.

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Yamaha turn TABLES ON HONDA AT QUEENSLAND RACEWAY

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amaha Racing Team with Yamaha Motorcycle Insurance’s (YRT with YMI) Cru Halliday has come up trumps at the third round of the Australian FX-IPONE Superbike Championship (AFX) at Sydney Motorsport Park by taking out both races.

After starting from pole position, Halliday held his teammate, Wayne Maxwell at bay by .400sec to win his first ever Superbike race that he later described as a “great feeling!”

The second race saw Halliday leading the early laps till he slipped down the order. He later came back towards the end of the race to finish second on track behind Team Honda Racing’s Jamie Stauffer, but won the race as Stauffer was handed

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a 15-second jump-start penalty.

It was a drag race to the line that saw Halliday beating the three times Australian Superbike champion, Glenn Allerton (YRT with YMI) by just .010sec.

“This is unreal,” beamed Halliday, who openly admitted that he was a little bit slow in race two as he was riding a bit conservative. “I came into this round not very confident after Mallala, but to be able to get the pole and two wins is simply amazing. I can’t say enough about the whole Yamaha Racing Team with Yamaha Motorcycle Insurance team. They have all worked flawlessly over the gap since round two.”

With a 4-2 result it was good enough to see Allerton claim second place, ten points behind Halliday. While Allerton was happy enough to get second pla-

WE JUST HAVE TO KEEP GETTING THROUGH EACH ROUND THE BEST WE CAN. SYDNEY MOTORSPORT PARK IS A HARD TRACK FOR ME. I’M DOING MY BEST TO GET A GOOD RESULT.

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ce, he still is having a few issues with the settings on the Yamaha R1M. “The team are doing a great job in trying to solve my issue, and they are really just my issues, as I ride the Yamaha R1M a little bit different to Cru and Wayne,” said Allerton. “Overall, I’m happy. Of course I want to win, but tomorrow is the big day. It’s going to take a big effort to win tomorrow; I’m not kidding myself about that. I’m really going to have to put in the big yards tomorrow.”

Picking up the last step of the podium was Team Honda Racing’s Troy Herfoss who scored two third place finishes for the round.

While Herfoss was not over the moon about his third place finish, he does still top the championship standings heading into Queensland Raceway in August with a eight point advantage over Maxwell.

“I’m happy that I lead the championship,” said Herfoss. “We just have to keep getting through each round the best we can. Sydney Motorsport Park is a hard track for me. I’m doing my best to get a good result.”

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“I made a stupid mistake by jumping the start and I apologize to the team for a mistake like that,” said Maxwell.

Rounding out the top five was Sean Condon (BikeBiz/IPONE/Swann Insurance Racing).

Condon was pleased enough with fifth place, but he definitely felt like that he could have been in the top three. However a jump start in race one put Condon on the back foot.

In the YRD Supersport class, Kawasaki Connection’s Rick Olson snared the surprised victory by stringing together a 5-1-1 result.

Coming into round three, Olson did have high hopes of winning; however after Friday’s practice and qualifying he was not thinking that a podium place was possible at all.

“I thought we could maybe get the Kawasaki Connection ZX6R setup for Sunday’s races.”

After finishing in fifth place I the opening race, Olson knew he was fast enough to run at the front and that he did.

Heading into tomorrow’s Swann Insurance Australasian Supersport round, Olson has a new set of tyres and his qualifying tyres which have only done three laps.

Brayden Elliott (Hankook Tyres/Royan Truck Repairs) regarded his day as pretty good as he and his team worked on some setup issues which he believes will help for Sunday’s ASC round.

“To be in the top three in all of the three races is really good,” said Elliott.

Championship leader Michael Blair (YRD/Blairbuild/Campbell Hardware) finished in third with a 1-4-5 result, but still tops the championship with a 14-point lead over Callum Spriggs (YRD/Allsite Concrete Cutting/Hydro Construction) who came home in fourth place overall with a solid 4-3-3 result.

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TROY HERFOSS 145 WAYNE MAXWELL 137 CRU HALLIDAY 126 GLENN ALLERTON 121 SEAN CONDON 119 MIKE JONES 97 BEN BURKE 94 JAMIE STAUFFER 94 MATTHEW WALTERS 80 EVAN BYLES 63

Completing the top five was Mitch Levy (Warm & Safe Australia/YRD) who finished one point ahead of pole sitter man, Troy Guenther (Fresh Chef/PI Technical/ Wallace).

Ben Henry (Cube Racing/Australian Outdoor Living) kept his winning performance going in the Race Tech Formula Oz class by winning race one and three. His only defeat came in race two when LTR Honda’s Paul Byrne beat him to the line by .419sec.

Third place went to Mitch Paynter. With Byrne finishing in second place, it sees Byrne and Paynter sitting on top of the championship with 171-points together, sixteen points clear of Simon Galloway.

LTR’s Samuel Davison tasted victory in the Kawasaki Insurances FX-300 Ninja Cup Class with a 4-1-1 result ahead of Victorian’s Ben White (Kelen Kawasaki) who managed a 3-2-3 result. Tony Jones (XXX Rated Suspension) joined them on the podium.

Other class winners included KTM Racing’s Angus Reekie in the Nakedbikes, Mario Gonzalez in the AMCN Pro-Twins and Glenn Birchall in the C & D Formula Xtreme class.

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Defending Motorised SPORTS ACTIVITIES AND EVENTS

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ueensland Motorised Sports Council Inc (QMSC) is a resource to facilitate people and organisations who are enthusiastic about motorised sports activities and events communicating easily with each other.

Our belief is that all motorised sport enthusiasts share the same core passion no matter how we express it.

It has become increasingly difficult for those who support and/or participate in motorised activities to enjoy their chosen recreation – whether it be flying model aircraft, racing or simply enjoying a modified vehicle on the street.

The reason for this is simple: motorised sports are an easy target because of the range of one-sided views in the community about people who enjoy any activity which might make a noise.

QMSC is dedicated to educating people that motorised sports are legitimate recreational activities and create a significant economic benefit to the state. Those partaking in events and enjoying their ve-

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hicles should be recognised as much as those who partake in any sporting code or hobby.

SOME EXAMPLES OF THE ISSUES OUR COMMUNITY FACES: The former Queensland State government introduced a number of pieces of legislation in early 2012 regarding what was and what was not acceptable in a modification of a motor car; modified the use of club registrations to further limit the amount of enjoyment these car owners can get from their recreational investment; and there are moves afoot that will severely impact on the owners of hot rods.

A number of model aircraft clubs have had to leave locations where they have been accepted for years because of complaints by one or two neighbours who have recently moved into the area.

Groups that bring together young enthusiasts to enjoy their vehicles in a safe environment are targeted by police as their is easy revenue to be raised.

Strength In Numbers The founders of the QMSC believe that, if we can pull together all of the people who enjoy motorised sports, it will represent a political force of such a size that it will be listened to.

The lack of a credible organisation with one voice representing the many is a major reason that hundreds of thousands of people who enjoy motorised sport recreational activities and events (together with the thousands of companies that support and are supported by motorised recreational activities) have been so poorly dealt with by all levels of governments in the past.

Current research shows the economic reach of the community stretches into the billions of dollars.

QMSC is an incorporated not-for-profit umbrella organisation established to engage with, represent and advocate for and on behalf of the three elements that are essential to grow, support and enjoy motorised sports recreational activities and events. For the first time, these three elements (People, Venues and Organisations) will be represented equally by the QMSC. Essentially if your passion has an engine we are here to support you and advocate for you.

QMSC provides a forum where companies, clubs, venues and enthusiasts can communicate with one another and governing bodies, including the various levels of government, to ensure the continuing growth and enjoyment of motorised sporting activities and events; at the same time, QMSC will cogently advocate against the ever more restrictive environment that bureaucracies impose on motorised sports activities and events.

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GLENNY TAKES OUT OPENING RALLYCROSS AT LAKESIDE

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teve Glenney managed to fend off a hard charging Alister McRae to take victory in the inaugural round of the Extreme Rallycross Championship at Lakeside Raceway.

The South Australian rally convert made the most of his pole position to lead McRae into the first corner before coming under relentless pressure from the Scotsman in the 10 lap 4WD final.

Glenney elected to take his joker lap on the opening tour which saw the Mitsubishi Evo driver open up a healthy lead but it didn’t take long for McRae to close the gap in his Supercar Lite.

The pair produced a thrilling dice for the lead until brake issues halted McRae’s charge.

“It’s great to go down in history by being the first winner of Extreme Rallycross and it was great to be racing with Alister McRae,” said Glenney.

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clashes, so once they see the fun we are having I’m sure they will head out and join the grid.”

Anthony Bross brought his Suzuki Jimny home in third ahead of the Subaru of Matt Thewlis.

Only four cars contested the final after mechanical failures saw the demise of Anthony Jones (Peugeot 207) and Darren Masters (Nissan Pulsar).

Callan Sayers completed a comfortable win in the 2WD class final featuring six identical Suzuki Swift race cars.

Sayers took the victory from Jamie Little with Greg Cox completing the podium in third.

The 10 lap final was restarted after Jason Hore tagged the rear of Mitchell Naylor sending the latter into a barrel roll on the entry to the first gravel section.

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NAYLOR WAS ABLE TO CLIMB OUT OF HIS CAR UNAIDED. Meanwhile, Greg Mammen held off a spirited charge from Luke Page to score victory in the Hyundai Excel class with Steve Hay coming home in third.

RICH HISTORY OF RALLYCROSS RETURNS. The super exciting sport of Rallycross is rich in history in this country, with events having already been run in three states, with the upcoming event in Queensland joining Victoria, New South Wales and South Australia.

One of the most exciting forms of motorsport of all time, Rallycross commenced in Australia at Melbourne’s Calder Park in 1969, two years after it kicked off in the United Kingdom. It was positioned inside the main racing circuit and quickly became a huge success.

It didn’t take long to generate sufficient interest to establish the sport in New South Wales. A consortium of highly experienced motor sportsmen headed

by Max Stahl, well known as Editor of Racing Car News at the time, made it happen in Katoomba.

Like Calder, the Katoomba rallycross track was built on the inside of the Catalina Park race circuit, and after a huge amount of work by the Blue Mountains City Council in building the track. The first race meeting was run on 28 November 1971.

South Australia had the sport in their state during the 70’s at the Tailem Bend facility, and they conducted the one and one only Australian Rallycross Championship in 1979, with the winner Larry Perkins driving a Volkswagen.

Rallycross is a unique sport wherein it favours drivers with experience in two disciplines, circuit racing and rallying, for it has a mixture of tarmac and gravel, and comes with jumps and water qldraceways.com.au

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Rear engined cars were very successful, particularly highly modified Volkswagen Beetles, with 2.2 litre powerplants, and drivers including Chris Heyer, Peter Mill and rally legend Barry Ferguson.

The other popular and successful rear engined cars were the Renault R8, and Australian Rally Champion Bob Watson from Melbourne was always a front runner, as was Bruce Collier a multiple NSW rally champion.

There were many drivers who made names for themselves as Rallycross drivers, while others were established stars of rallying and circuit racing Perhaps the biggest name was Peter Brock driving the Holden Racing Team XU1 Torana known as the ’Beast’ and it was a beast, while Colin Bond also drove the car.

Among other ’name’ drivers that competed were Allan Moffat, Alan Hamilton, Evan Green, and Bruce Hodgson while there were two drivers nicknamed wildman, Bill Evans (Vic) and Ed Mulligan (NSW) Calder and Catalina both had television coverage, live for some two to three hours on a Sunday afternoon.

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LAKESIDE With a now permanent facility at Lakeside park Rally Cross is set to be a regular feature at the venue in the future. The 1km purpose built tarmac and gravel circuit won high accolades from all that participated at the first Extreme Rallycross festival. The facility has a perfect mix of bitumen, clay and concrete to keep good variations in surface added to that are two exciting jumps. The Joker lap is unique in that it is a shorter lap which timed right adds a great deal of strategy into the mix. The Queensland Season will kick off on the 14th November with a sprint and come and try day.

LEADERBOARD 4WD RESULTS 1ST: STEVE GLENNEY – 4 (MITSUBISHI EVO) 2ND: ALISTER MCRAE – 28 (SUPERCAR LITE) 3RD: ANTHONY BROSE – 15 (SUZUKI JIMNY)

EXCEL RESULTS

1ST: GREG MAMMEN – 56 (EXCEL) 2ND: LUKE PAGE – 14 (EXCEL) 3RD: STEVE HAY – 70 (EXCEL)

2WD RESULTS

1ST: CALLAN SAYERS – 16 (SUZUKI SWIFT) 2ND: JAMIE LITTLE – 88 (SUZUKI SWIFT) 3RD: GREG COX – 11 (SUZUKI SWIFT)

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SHANNONS N BRING BIG GRIDS FOR QUEENSLAND

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ACK-TO-BACK Touring Car round victories for young stars Alex Rullo and Ben Grice have heighted a massive fifth round of the Shannons Australian Motor Racing Nationals this weekend at Queensland Raceway, near Ipswich.

15-year-old Alex Rullo won his second Kumho V8 Touring Car round of the year while Grice stormed to another cleansweep of a Super Six Touring car round to lodge his championship credentials.

Jack Perkins was another to sweep all three races this weekend, dominating in his maiden Kerrick Sports Sedan triumph, while Cameron Hill won his third successive Formula Ford round of the season – with just one round remaining for the open wheelers.

Victories by Jon Collins (Formula 3), Ryan Simpson (Porsche GT3 Cup Challenge), Beric Lynton (AMChamp) and Josh Townsend (Sports Racer) completed a massive day of racing.

A full category-by-category review of all the racing is included below.

The Shannons Nationals continue their bumper eight-round season at the Phillip Island Grand Prix Circuit this September 18-20.

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PORSCHE GT3 CUP CHALLENGE PRESENTED

BY PIRELLI

RYAN SIMPSON took the broom to the Porsche GT3 Cup Challenge presented by Pirelli field this weekend, sweeping the three race weekend thanks to a string of two victories on Sunday – backing up his commanding win in the 40-lap Sunday night race.

The Sydney driver was in his usual imperious form at Sydney Motorsport Park, breaking the lap record comfortably in race two – setting the new benchmark at 1m10.9903s.

Simpson won the professional class with youngsters Dylan O’Keefe second and James Abela third.

Hamish Hardeman’s Porsche debut

was one of the talking points of the weekend – the Formula Ford graduate converting sixth in the Jim Richards enduro to fifth and ninth places in Sunday’s two races, respectively.

Geoff Emery edged out Tim Miles and podium debutant Sam Shahin for the honours in the Porsche’s elite class, while Jaxon Evans won the competitive class B fight over Aaron Seton and Jim Campbell.

AMCHAMP

BERIC LYNTON in the Alphera Financial Services BMW1M made it two wins from two days in round three of the AMChamps.

Lynton took the lead with 15 laps to go after a thrilling battle with the

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Nationals Sherrin brothers BMW - who had lead for the majority of the race up to that point.

The #18 Sherrin Rentals BMW ran strongly all day, taking the lead on the first lap before the Poll Performance/Mocomm HSV of Pollicina and Lillie overtook them on the second lap.

However, their lead would be short-lived, with a punctured left front tyre just laps later seeing them pit from the lead, handing it back to the Sherrin brothers entry who would go on to lead for the majority of the race from that point.

The potential for an outright victory would slip from the grasp of the Queensland brothers however, when during an epic dice for the lead with Lynton with 15 laps to go saw Grant Sherrin have an off-track excursion on turn 3 – allowing Lynton through for the lead, where he stayed.

Power steering issues sidelined the Rick Bates ProDuct Mitsubishi, while Bob Pearson retired later in the race with smoke billowing from his identical car. qldraceways.com.au

KERRICK SPORTS SEDAN SERIES

JACK PERKINS’ second round in the Kerrick Sports Sedan series has resulted in a dominant three-race sweep of the series’ third round of 2015.

The Audi driver, filling in for injured regular pilot Darren Hossack, not only took pole and every race victory this weekend, but set a new Sports Sedan lap record for the venue in the process.

Tony Ricciardello finished second in races one and two however dropped down the order in race three after an exhaust issue slowed his progress – though he cruised to the line a small fire did hamper his progress.

After their furious battle for the lead on Saturday evening, Ricciardello seemed to have limited answer to the Audi’s pace on Sunday, falling ten seconds behind in race two and trailing

the Audi again in race three before his dramas struck.

Steven Tamasi finished third in both Sunday races and Tom Randle fourth in the Kerrick SAAB. Shane Bradford won the battle of the TransAm class whilst Keith Kassulke was the leader of the three-car MARC Cars Australia in-race battle.

FORMULA 3 AUSTRALIAN DRIVERS CHAMPIONSHIP

JON COLLINS has extended his lead in the Australian Formula 3 Championship following a commanding feature race victory at Queensland Raceway on Sunday.

Collins assumed an early lead in the Formula 3’s 18-lap feature race whilst behind the Gilmour Racing driver some wild racing ensured on the opening lap – Ricky Capo, Roland Legge and Chris Gilmour going three wide into turn three as they battled for second place.

Legge ran wide at the turn, spearing off into the gravel and down to the back of the field whilst Capo edged Gilmour for second.

Collins sprinted away in front to win the race from Capo and a recovering Legge, who set a series of fastest laps on his charge through the field to the podium.

Luke Spalding battled Roman Krumins for victory in the Formula 3 National class, the pair trading the lead on several occasions before the local driver was able to assume his position at the top of the class – and fifth outright.

The bestjet.com Gilmour Racing Dallara driver also clinched the National class title for this year thanks to his string of strong performances this season.

The Australian Formula 3 Championship returns to the Shannons Nationals at Phillip Island this September.

KUMHO V8 TOURING CARS SERIES

AFTER SURVIVING all kinds of drama to win his maiden Kumho V8 Touring Cars Series round at Winton in June, Alex Rullo had a much clearer pathway to victory in his second career round win at Queensland Raceway this weekend.

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cal fastest lap times in the 10-lap finale’, showcasing the competitive nature of the series this season – despite Hill’s apparent domination.

Will Brown and Christian Morina tied on 25 points each for third overall, Brown getting the result on a countback thanks to his race three finish.

DIAL BEFORE YOU DIG SUPER SIX TOURING CAR SERIES

Rullo scored pole and a perfect three-race sweep at QR to charge his way up the championship standings with back-to-back round wins.

His cause was helped when nearest rival Liam McAdam was turned around into the gravel trap in a combative final race on Sunday afternoon.

McAdam had battled Rullo for the lead early in the race however the pair made contact at turn two – when McAdam was on the outside - with McAdam coming off second best.

A new lap record for the Eggleston Motorsport driver was small consolation for the disappointing end to his otherwise consistent weekend.

McAdam now leads Rullo by just five points at the series’ half way point, Jim Pollicina third overall and first in the privateer class.

Jim Pollicina finished third overall this weekend after a race three non-finish saw Steve Devjack’s strong run of podium finishes come to a halt. He finished fourth overall with Steve Briffa competing the top five.

AUSTRALIAN FORMULA FORD CHAMPIONSHIP

CAMERON HILL won the fifth round of the Australian Formula Ford Series and placed one hand on the championship trophy in the process thanks to two race wins today at Queensland Raceway.

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Hill won race two with relative ease but had to spend 10 laps of continued onslaught from Luis Leeds and Will Brown in a breathless finale’ before he could seal his third straight round victory.

Hill won the round by one point and has now won eight of the last nine races in the open-wheel category.

Luis Leeds finished second, surviving a thrilling last-lap battle with Will Brown in the finale’ to hold on to second spot for the race and round in his DREAM Motorsport Mygale.

Hill, Leeds and Brown each set identi-

BEN GRICE has taken his streak of race wins to six in the Dial Before You Dig Australian Super Six Touring Car Series this weekend at Queensland Raceway.

Backing up from his dominant performance in Sydney last month, the Gold Coast-based second-generation driver stormed to three comfortable victories this weekend ahead of fellow Holden driver and defending champion, Gavin Ross.

Queensland Ford driver Ashley Jarvis finished third for the round thanks to two thirds and a fourth – Gary Begs scoring a podium in race three after a storming drive.

Lindsay Kearns and Brent Edwards completed the top five.

SPORTS RACER SERIES

THE F1000 racers within the Australian Sports Racer Series have found great success, with Joshua Townsend clinching the first ever race and then round win for an F1000 while Adam Cranston took over the points lead.

Townsend would take not one but two race victories by the time the day was out, and was joined on the round podium by Michael Whiting (second) and Cranston (third) – with Whiting and Cranston proving that in racing, consistency really does count.

The Sports Racer weekend was highlighted by an incredible three-way fight for victory in race two that saw Townsend charge from third to first in one lap of racing, ultimately edging out Mark Laucke by 0.06s in one of the races of the year.

Laucke struck dramas in the third and final race, allowing Adam Cranston to jump to the points lead following three rounds.

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