WATCH: Morgan Park hosts 100 racers for Super Sprints
IT WAS on for young and old at Morgan Park Raceway at the weekend, with plenty of racers proving you're never too old to hit the track.
Despite the rain yesterday, about 110 racers are entered in the third round of the Queensland Super Sprints B Series continuing today.
Grafton drivers Ken and Bill Norton and Doug Clark, all in their early 70s, were out racing in GRDs.
"We've all been to Morgan Park a fair few times before," Mr Clark said.
"I raced at Bathurst from 1978 to 1981 and I've been racing ever since."
After winning the 2000cc class in 1980 at Bathurst, Mr Clark has also had a lucrative career selling and rebuilding cars around Grafton.
He became friends with the Norton brothers after joining the Grafton Sporting Car Club.
"We've all been doing some sort of motorsport since the 60s," Bill said.
"Ken and I have the only two GRDs of their kind in Australia, and I raced mine in a formula series in England back in 1972 to 73."
"Motorsport really is an incurable disease - once you start you really can't stop and it's got a great camaraderie," Ken said.
"It's a great facility which is a real credit to the area, and we're just hoping for a sunny day and to get back out on the track tomorrow."
Plenty of other racing models were among the entered vehicles at the weekend's event.
Lotus Club Queensland president Clive Wade has been rallying since 1973, but returned to the track more regularly in his retirement the early 2000s.
"I'm racing a Lotus Elise - it's one of the oldest and lightest cars here," Mr Wade said.
"Geoff Noble from our club has the fastest here as well, and he actually beat all the racing Porsches during the Inter Club Challenge last weekend.
"The camaraderie of the sport and the adrenaline boost is what keeps me in the sport, it's just a really fun thing to be a part of."
Like many of his fellow racers, Mr Wade said he enjoyed returning to Warwick to compete and applauded the raceway facilities.
"I've been coming here to race since 2005, and Morgan Park is really considered one of the best amateur race tracks in Australia," he said.
"You think of how much money it pulls into the town and how fantastic the facilities are and it's a real credit to Bill Campbell and his daughter Teresa without whom the raceway wouldn't be what it is."
The Queensland Super Sprints A series returns to Morgan Park for Round 4 on August 13 and 14.