History in the racing at Morgan Park track
HISTORIC cars from the 1960s, 1970s and 1980s will dominate the field in this weekend's Historic Queensland race meeting at Morgan Park Raceway.
Historic Racing Car Club of Queensland vice-president Peter Walsh said the oldest cars were seven in the pre-1960s racing and sports car class.
"The major feature class is the group N touring cars with more than 50 entries ranging from Minis and Escorts to XU-1 Toranas and Falcon GT cars,” Walsh said.
Muscle style cars in the field include the Ford Mustang, Valiant Charger and Mazda Rotary.”
With more than 175 cars entered from the eastern states, Historic Queensland will be one of the biggest events at the circuit this year.
It can be expected lap records will be set across the two days of racing on the newly resurfaced track.
The race meeting caters for open wheel formula type cars, sports racing cars, production sports cars, sports sedans and touring cars as well as regularity trials.
Famous marques such as Ferrari, Porsche, Brabham, Lola and Jaguar will be represented.
Qualifying begins at 8.30am Saturday followed by 35 races across Saturday and Sunday and includes trophy feature races.
Admission is $20 per day or $30 for the weekend. Accompanied under-15 patrons are free. Conces- sions available. There is free access to pits.
