Historic Touring Cars - what the boys do in their spare time

Forty five cars set out for qualifying for the Historic Touring Car events supporting the major Bathurst 6Hr event at Mt Panomara at Easter. Five Sc Porsches and an Sa Austin Healey fattened the touring car grid, which ranged from Minis to Camaros in size and capacity.

Report by Chris Ralph. Pics courtesy James Smith

In Race 1, Vince Macri was victorious over Brad Tilley’s Mustang, with our lads Harrison and Whiteside in 3rd and 5th, then Bill in 7th, Tony Gilfuis in 11, Stuart Barnes 14th and, getting used to it all, Chris Stern in 16th just a few seconds ahead of Brent Trengrove in 18th, while John Clarke hauled the Nb Mustang into 34th.

Race 2 saw Brad Tilley turn the tables on Vince Macri, with the consistent Harrison and Whiteside again in 3rd and 5th.  The Geelong mafia then formed a bloc of Bill Trengrove, Chris Stern and Brent Trengrove in 8-10th, with Tony not far back in 14th, John Clarke now up to 30th and Stuart Barnes suffering some sort of misadventure to be listed as the last finisher.

In the final, Vince regained his dominance over Brad Tilley, this time the wailing Mustang Darryl Hansen filled third (check the YouTube in-car footage, he canes out every available rpm) ousting John Harrison to 4th ahead of Michael Anderson’s Falcon and Andrew Whiteside’s Mustang in 6th slotting in just nine  seconds ahead of Bill Trengrove in 7th, who in turn was just three seconds ahead of Chris Stern in 10th, obviously getting his Mountain Bum on. Brent came home 12th and Tony Gilfuis 15th, Stuart hauled up to 20th from the back of the grid and John Clarke again finished 30th.