We need you!
The Club Lotus Australia hosted round of the CSCA supersprint series at Sydney Motorsport Park is now only five weeks away, and the club is looking for volunteers to assist on the day.
We need you!
The Club Lotus Australia hosted round of the CSCA supersprint series at Sydney Motorsport Park is now only five weeks away, and the club is looking for volunteers to assist on the day.
Image thanks to David Molloy
Over a long weekend from the 23rd to the 25th of June, we made our way out to the ‘Mountains to celebrate 50 years of Club Lotus Australia, and the people and cars who have made it what it is today. Scroll along, and enjoy a few photos from Saturday’s concours d’elegance and gala dinner.
Well, happy hump month all!
There really is only one thing to talk about, and that was the party of the year over the weekend of 23-25th June celebrating Lotus’s 75th and Club Lotus’s 50th Anniversaries. What a blast it was!
Friend of the club John has Jenvey independent inlet manifolds and adjustable inlet trumpets to suit Rover K series engines for sale. Read on for the details.
Images thanks to Robert Verhey
Our friends in Tasmania get together most months at Sandy Bay to kick tyres and chat about life, Lotus and everything. Robert Verhey made it to July’s meeting, and very kindly reached out with a few photos that you can enjoy below.
It is with sadness that we share the news of the passing of Dr. Stuart Saunders, co-founder of the Binalong Motor Museum. John Partridge has kindly put together some words celebrating Dr. Saunders’ life and love of golden era automobiles, which you can read below.
Get ready to live your life a quarter mine at the time July 9, when the CSCA series heads to Sydney Dragway for the first round on the strip in many years.
Entries are open now, and all the details are available below thanks to Philip Larmour, the Triumph Sports Owners Association NSW’s Motorsports Director.
Thanks to Steve Grobler
The annual All British took place on 21 May at Gingin, about an hour’s drive north of Perth, and brought a lovely collection of British motoring machinery out for display.
Images thanks to Robert Verhey
Our friends in Tasmania get together most months at Sandy Bay to kick tyres and chat about life, Lotus and everything. Robert Verhey made it to June’s meeting, and very kindly reached out with a few photos that you can enjoy below.
Wow, June already!
When we started planning this month’s 50th Anniversary celebrations, it seemed so far into the future as to not get too worried about it.
All of a sudden, here we very nearly are! As I write this, we are three weeks from a great celebration of friendships, a shared love of our cars, and a rosy future for the brand we all love.
It would be extremely remiss of me not to mention the hard work and inspiration of the organising committee, and to thank them all for their input, involvement and drive to get to what will be a fantastic event; Brian, Mel, Tom, Greg, Neil, Seth, Elliott and Evan, you have been awesome, and we have a lot to be very grateful for, thank you all!
So for those unable to make it, we’ll take photos and share them next time round.
And once all that excitement is over, all of a sudden, we are into the second half of the year, and the middle of winter!
As I may have mentioned, I will be flying over to work from the UK for three months (as a bit of a social experiment in working Australian hours from the other side of the globe), leaving shortly after our jamboree, and in time for Goodwood FOS. Funnily enough, the other end of my visit is bookmarked by Revival, where Lord March is kindly celebrating the Lotus 75th. While it clearly won’t be as star-studded as our affair, I feel I should go along in the spirit of supporting the event 🙂 So, if anyone else is planning to be over at the same time, make sure to get in touch!
Here in Sydney, assuming the weather forecasters are right, we can start to look forward to a slightly more “normal” weather pattern as El Nino re-establishes in the Pacific, which will hopefully mean that both the Shannons Classic (Sunday August 20th) and the All British Day (Sunday September 17th) can go ahead without the risk of being washed out, as has sadly been the case of recent years. As ever, we’ll be getting tickets for the club, so please drop a line to Evan on the committee email address (committee@clublotus.com.au) if you are interested to come along. Shannons will be celebrating 75 years of Lotus (and as it happens also Land Rover), so we will have an extra few spots as we can have cars on pit lane as well as in the paddock; and with the promise of finer weather, the All British Day returns as our annual excuse for a picnic!
And don’t forget, our Tyre Kicks continue on the second and third Sundays of the month. In a break from tradition, the 16th July Tyre Kick will take place at Evalence’s workshops at Unit 13/12 Cecil Rd, Hornsby NSW 2077, starting at 9am. Come ready to learn how to make your car really shine! Charlie Frew’s kit is top notch, and he’ll have the coffee machine and bbq on for us.
In the motorsport world, we have round 2 of the CSCA sprints on June 17th (two weeks time!), so if you’ve not got organised, now would be a good time to do so! And then round 3 is the CLA-organised round this year, picking up the baton from the Morgan Club for the day before the Shannons Classic (Saturday 19th August). We will need plenty of flag marshal volunteers please, so even if you can’t run in the event, if you’d be kind enough to offer to serve as a flaggie, your help would be hugely appreciated. Please drop a line to the Motorsport team on motorsport@clublotus.com.au to start to organise things.
And before we know it, I’ll be back from Blighty.
But while there, a lovely friend (my navigator on Perth to Sydney last year, Nick) has offered me the use of his Alvis Speed 20 – for those needing a prompt, you can see it up above.