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Trevor Sheumack - BMW Supertourer
My BMW Supertourer is a recent acquisition from New Zealand. Originally a Johnny Cecotto car in the 1993 Supertouring World Cup at Monza, it came Australia in 1994 and was run as a Diet Coke car with Paul Morris driving in the early days of the Australian Supertouring Championship. It ran at Bathurst in 1994 with Craig Baird and Brett Riley, it had several other owners in Australia before going to New Zealand to Dennis Chapman. I ran the car at Phillip Island Historic in March last year plus WFOS and the Heritage Revival at Bathurst in October.
I did a couple of Super Touring races in 1998, the first in the Faber Castell BMW run by Bob Holden and the last round of the 1998 championship at Oran Park driving the third Brad Jones Racing Audi Sport A4. I have been the Michelin Motorsport Distributor in AU and NZ for 26 years and currently oversee Michelin Motorsport programs in the Asia Pacific Region.
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Ian Smith Vic 1985 VK Commodore 6000 White/Blue/Red 123 Simon Anthonisz Jagermeister QLD 1993 BMW E36 3200 Orange 185 Chris Young Vic 1983 Holden Commodore 5700 White/Red
Scott Ball - Bacchus/BMC Sports
The Bacchus represented the first original race cars from (Alpha Street Productions) ASP. Named after the Greek god of wine these Lotus 7 inspired Clubman cars were powered by a variety of engines with a total of six cars completed under this name. This car is number 5 of 6 and was originally built for Bob Dwyer around 1963-64 and has always featured BMC engines and MOWOG drivetrains. Currently the car runs an Austin 1800 engine that has been converted by me to run North South. Alpha Street Productions (ASP) was founded by Ray Lewis and Rory Thompson with input from Peter Ivey, in the early sixties in Adelaide. The three had met through a common
interest in sportscars. Ray, the part owner of Lewis Brothers Buses amongst other businesses provided the premises for their venture at his family home of Alpha house on Alpha Street Kensington Park in Adelaide. Rory however provided the technical knowledge after earning qualifications in mechanical engineering from the South Australian Institute of Technology. Working initially on Lotus Sevens for Derek Jolly, Rory decided certain deficiencies of the Lotus design could be overcome with the design of a new chassis. This first attempt at an entire car was named the Bacchus. The first of the chassis was sold bare but a further 5 cars
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from page 31.... were built under the Bacchus name with a variety of drivetrains fitted. The business then had a name change to ASP and went on to design and build many road & race cars including the ASP 320,330,340,340B, 340C. Construction of sports cars continued in various forms until the early 2000s.
Scott Ball Started racing speedway in 1986 at the age of 16. First race car was an “Open Sportsman” (now known as a Wingless Sprintcars) then, after about 14 seasons moved
on to Speedcars while also getting interested (and competing) at Hillclimbs in a Mini. Around 2003 I decided to concentrate on motorsport on a sealed surface, initially still doing hillclimbs in my Mini Sports Sedan. Slowly progressed to circuit racing as family and mortgage commitments eased. Now I try to do between 5 or 6 events at various locations every year, depending on other commitments in either a Mini or the Bacchus sports car we have here this weekend.
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