Phillip Island Classic March 2012

[Evan Bottcher]

We had a great family day out yesterday at the classic.  Watched from MG and from Siberia, then joined the luncheon for half the afternoon and finally watched from the outside of turn 12.  Lots of action!  I took some average photos with my point and shoot...

[Evan Bottcher]

Jack was thrilled to be given the opportunity to sit in the Talbot-Lago grand prix car!

[Evan Bottcher]

I took this little snip of the Groups A & C cars coming through Siberia.  Great to see the Ignis car out there again!

[Neil Choi]

ACTION.  Unfortunate Group S race 4 crash at the end of lap 1.  Our mate Bryan Taylor in the red Porsche.

[hmd]

Neil,

That's race 3 and BT is all fine aside from one bruised toe and one stiff shoulder from the HANS.

[Evan Bottcher]

That's great news!  I'd heard he was going to be okay but wasn't sure the extent of injuries.  Bloody terrifying crash.

[lightyear]

I saw the crash as i was heading toward the gate at the time. Worst crash i have seen.

[Neil Choi]

From another angle

[Neil Choi]

My near miss.

Yellow flag spoilt my start.  Then very focussed on exiting turn 12 fast for an overtake, very very lucky for the near miss, turned very religious then, lucky that Nick Taylor didn't hit me.

[Ray Pignataro]

Neil lucky on so many levels, looked like good fun unti lthe accident

[lightyear]

That was close Neil.  You would be looking at the car in front and trying to get a good run onto the straight, and then you see brake lights, arghhh.

[alfagtv58]

Neil,

That's race 3 and BT is all fine aside from one bruised toe and one stiff shoulder from the HANS.

That's great news hmd, I heard he had broken his arm, I'm glad thats not true.

It was a frightening incident, I will post some footage from my in car tonight.

[Evan Bottcher]

I see some of the photos are up on sdpics.com - none of the Sc cars yet though.
http://www.sdpics.com/cgi-bin/e-store/index.cgi?direct=8000~Motor_Sport/9000~Cars/06~Historic_Racing/62~9-11_March_2012_-_PHILLIP_ISLAND_HISTORICS

I have a passing infatuation with Bill Magoffin's "other" race car on the weekend, shown in the attached borrowed picture.

Quoting the owner:
"GTAm was built by Autodelta to group 2 specs in March – May 1976 but with an injected 2L (Spica) like US cars.  Other cars were converted from the handful ( estimates vary from 12-25) of road cars brought in to homologate with parts supplied by Alfa subsidiary Autodelta Australia. Run by Alfa as the works entry at Bathurst in '76 with John Leffler and Richard Carter."

[Paul Gulliver]

I have a passing infatuation with Bill Magoffin's "other" race car on the weekend, shown in the attached borrowed picture

Your not alone there Evan, i had a good look at the car on Friday. I thought the original Simmons wheels looked great. The size of the rear brakes would also get most of the group s guys wishing. Overall  the  quality of the restoration is outstanding. I also managed to catch up with Rob Panetta who did most of the work on the car . I know Rob reads this web site every morning instead of newspapers so hopfully he can pipe up with a few more detailed insights   

[alfagtv58]

I will post some footage from my in car tonight.

OK, I may not be posting my in car footage tonight as I'm having 'issues' with youtube and google accounts and passwords and linking them and.....I need a teenager to show me how to do it.