Driver back in Ford after long break from sport
MOTORSPORT: Peter Trapnell has been racing in Warwick for the past six years and will be in action in his 1935 Ford V8 Special in the Queensland and Australian Super Sprint Championships this weekend at Morgan Park Raceway.
He won the JKL group outright to secure the Chas Whatmore Trophy in the 2014 Historic Racing Car Club Historic Queensland meeting in a lap record one minute, 37.427 seconds.
Trapnell holds the Group K record at both Morgan Park Raceway and Mount Cotton Hill Climb course and regularly wins his class at Leyburn Sprints.
He will be busy this weekend racing from the driver's seat of his Ford to taking photos for Trapnell Creations, a business he and wife Belinda run with a combination of photography and metal fabrication in Brisbane.
He spends more than 20 weekends a year in Warwick to race and take photos at race meetings at Morgan Park.
"I haven't raced much in the past year after I hit a concrete wall at the 2016 Leyburn Sprints and took the best part of a year to find another axle,” he said.
"This weekend will be my return to the track. I am looking forward to racing on the new surface at Morgan Park.
"If it is dry, I hope to better my personal best on the 3km track.”
Asked if a move to Warwick is on the cards, Trapnell said he would love to call the Southern Downs home.
"My wife Belinda enjoys working with horses so a move is possible one day. Who knows what is around the corner.”
Practice today and racing from 8.30am tomorrow and Sunday. Free admission for spectators.