Lotus Photos: March Boab Tree Meet ‘n Eat

On the second Monday of each month we meet up at the Boab Tree in Kings Park, Perth, to catch up and have a bite to eat. Our March meet-up was last week, on the 14th, and you can catch up on the evening’s events thanks to this report by John Edmondson.

Thanks to John Edmondson

It was a very warm 39 degree spring evening for our March Monday Boab Tree Meet n Eat run.

Surprisingly there are more mad people in Perth than just Robyn and myself. We had 8 turn up at the Boab Tree car park. Peter Best and Vic in the 340R, Andy in his lovely green V8 Esprit, Richard Cooper in his S2 Elise, Craig Bart Le in his S1 Elise, Kevin Fitzmaurice in his S1 Elise and Robyn and myself in our S2 Exige.

We chatted for a while about our day at the MC Motorsport Sprint Series. Exchanged notes on days gone by and had a few laughs.

At around 6:45 we headed off to the Vic Hotel in Subiaco, minus the green Esprit as Andy was on a “promise”.

We arrived at the Vic Hotel and parked in their undercroft carpark. The nice staff made up a table for us and we all enjoyed a few drinks and a very lovely meal while sharing more stories of past happenings and events.

The weather decided to do a change on our way home afterwards with a magic sky show of flashes of lightning and a few splashes of rain.

Now looking forward to next Sunday’s EMR!

Lotus Photos: A Few from the March Tyre Kick & Coffee

March Tyre Kick & Coffee

On the third Sunday of each month we get together to kick tyres, catch up and enjoy a coffee in Gough Whitlam Park in Tempe. Sunday the 20th of March was one such day, so that’s what we did! Read on for a few words and photos from Ashton.

Considering the weather forecast (and subsequent arrival of said weather) we were really lucky with how our morning turned out!

It was lovely to see Ken with his Plus 2, Trevor in his sparkling Evora and George in his, unbelievably, nearly 9 year old Elise S2. It was great fun to line up my Elan with Daniel’s MX5 and see just how tiny it really is! And the artist in me managed to get the cars to colour alternate 🙂

Shame the Subaru wouldn’t move, but at least he was colour co-ordinated!

Lotus Photos: NSW March Meeting with John Bowers

Club Lotus Australia John Bowers Meeting

Wednesday March 16th brought us together for our second monthly meeting of 2016, in which John Bowers presented some wonderful history and stories about his ex-Jim Clark 1963 Lotus Type 25 R4. And now you can relive it all through the magic of photography!

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John Bowers to Present Exclusive On-Board Footage & Images of Ex-Jim Clark 1963 Lotus Type 25 R4

Ex-Jim Clark 1963 Lotus 25 R4

Join us at Simply Sports Cars next Wednesday, the 16th of March, to enjoy a lovely social evening during which John Bowers will show off magic on-board footage & images of the ex-Jim Clark Lotus Type 25 R4.

The car is the ex-Jim Clark world championship-winning machine from 1963.

John Bowers has kindly offered to speak during our March social evening, and will be bringing along exclusive footage of the car running (quite spectacularly well) at those events.

The evening will kick off from 6:30PM at Simply Sports Cars in Artarmon. Please come along and join us for a relaxed social evening at SSC’s showrooms at 17 Hotham Parade, Artarmon.

Upcoming Motorsport Events: March 2016

With 2016’s Club motorsport season well under way, there are plenty of opportunities to get out and enjoy driving your Lotus in the manner for which it was designed. Read on for all the news on what’s coming up.

Round 2 of the CSCA Series is to be held next weekend, on Sunday the 13th of March at Sydney Motorsport Park. It will be hosted by the MG Car Club and entries are open now on CAMS Motor Event Entry. Get your entry in and come along for a run!

On Good Friday, the 25th of March, our friends in the Sprite Club are running a Supersprint at Marulan Driver Training Centre. This event which will see Sprites and Midgets from all over Australia competing.

As MDTC does not currently have a dorian timing loop, we will be using manual timing. So, if super accurate timing is important to you, this may not be the right event for you! Instead, we plan on running a relaxed day with the focus on first time competitors. This is an ideal opportunity for many of us to run at this track for the first time.

The entry cost will be $165 and we are running under a CAMS permit with medical and fire services.

Could any interested members please contact:

David Baigent – SCCA Club Captain
Mob: +61 407 137 776
To get in touch via email, get in touch with Seth and he’ll introduce you.

Finally, the Australian Supersprint Championships are going to be held in conjunction with Round 3 of the MSCA Championship, which many of our cousins in Victoria enjoy, on the 23rd & 24th of April.

This is a two day event which, considering it is being held at Winton Raceway, makes the travel well worth the effort. Entry is via www.meecamsau.com and the attached flyer should give you some of the details to wet the appetite.

Australian Super SPrints Championship

Please Support the Shoalhaven Motorsport Complex

Shoalhaven Motorsport Complex

Motorcycling NSW has been working on the Shoalhaven Motorsport Complex over the last few years and making steady progress. They’ve now submitted a development application, and it needs our support!

The Shoalhaven Motorsport Complex will provide a multi-faceted motorsport facility to support motorsport competition, driver and rider training and community projects in New South Wales.

With the loss of Amaroo Park and Oran Park, New South Wales’ existing motorsport venues, basically Sydney Motorsport Park and Wakefield Park at this point, have taken on the significant demand of NSW’s motorsport needs. This has resulted in limited track availability, rising venue hire costs for promoters and ultimately higher costs for competitors and enthusiasts, and fewer options for safe and controlled competition.

The Shoalhaven Motorsport Complex has been progressing well and the team have now submitted the Shoalhaven Motorsport Complex Development Application and received notice that it has now been formally presented in public exhibition.

At the conclusion of this exhibition there will be a determination as to whether the project can proceed. There is a $9.5 million grant reliant on the outcome of this application.

Shoalhaven City Council requires written submissions to be made by close of business on the 28th of March, 2016. Submissions can be made via the following avenues:

Email: [email protected]

Online: Shoalhaven City Council website (www.shoalhaven.nsw.gov.au), click on “DA Tracking” on the right hand side of the front page, enter RA14/1000 – click on show, scroll all the way down the page to the “contact us about this application” button. You will also see all the submitted project information here.

Post: General Manager, Shoalhaven City Council, PO Box 42 Nowra NSW 2541

 

For more information on the Shoalhaven Motorsport Complex hit their website here. And if you need any assistance, please do contact them as they are more than happy to help.

This is an opportunity to support not only this project, but motorsport in New South Wales and our wonderful community. We wish the team all the best!

The Preserve February 2016 Now Available for Download!

The Preserve February 2016

‘The Preserve’ is the newsletter of the Council of Motor Clubs. It’s made available to members of CMC-affiliated clubs, and that means you!

The February 2016 edition of the newsletter has been sent out to members, and we’ve added it to the members’ page for your perusal.

This edition kicks off the year with everything that’s going on in motor clubs along with important news for motoring enthusiasts, looks forward to the National Motoring Heritage Day and Shannons Sydney Classic Concours, recaps Australia Day at Dee Why and a whole lot more.

Club Lotus Australia members can head to the members page here to download your copy. If you’re not a member of the club head here, and take a browse around the website to see why you should be!