Tuesday the 14th of July’s social meeting found us at Trevor’s shed chatting cars and enjoying pizza, brownies and a social mid-week catch-up.
Club Lotus New Zealand Edition 57 Available for Download
Our friends from Club Lotus New Zealand have put out the latest release of their newsletter Edition, and we’re pleased to share it with you here!
This newsletter’s features include:
- Lotus News
- The Last Lotus Seven
- The Kiwi Replica Sevens – McGregor & Fraser
- The Summer of 1973
- Indy 2015
And a whole lot more!
Grab your copy from the following link, and enjoy!
Club Lotus New Zealand Edition 57 [PDF]
Please also make sure to head to their official website here, their Facebook page here, and their YouTube channel here to keep in touch with everything they’re up to.
HSRCA Social Night Talk with Lotus’ Jim Smith
For those interested, the HSRCA’s 15th of July social night will feature talks by Jim Clark’s 1965 Indy 500-winning crew chief, Jim Smith, along with Dave Williamson who was at the 2015 Indianapolis 500.
Jim Smith was crew chief on the Lotus 38 that day in 1965, and will be in attendance to tell of his time with Lotus and racing in USA in the mid-1960s.
The event will be on the 15th of July, 2015, from 8PM at Denistone Sports Club, 59 Chatham Road, West Ryde. Head along early to grab a bite to eat and have a drink with our friends in historic motorsport!
Lotus Only Track Day Video Wrap-Up
Take a wander through the pits or paddock of any motorsport event, and you’ll find audiovisual appendages bristling from the vast majority of motorsport machinery in attendance. Which is great, because it means we can catch up on the action afterwards!
These videos are from the recent Lotus Only Track Day at Wakefield Park, and have been put together and shared by the Club Lotus crew at the event. It’s wonderful to get home from the weekend’s motorsport and enjoy people’s stories, photos and videos as they chat about their adventures. We hope to see these conversations continue and flourish!
Fetch a cup of tea, and enjoy! Thanks to Duncan, Josh, Mark, Martin, Michael and Nathan for the videos.
SPYfest Goulburn Looking for Lotuses!
SPYfest is to be held this September 25th to 26th in Goulburn, and they’re looking for any and all Lotus vehicles to join in the fun.
SPYfest celebrates the birthplace of Australia’s only James Bond, George Lazenby, with a festival of everything spy. George Lazenby will be in Goulburn for the event, which will put on a street parade featuring Bond Cars, Bond Girls, marching bands, Spies on Stilts street theatre, Spy Dogs, Spy Kids and more!
After the parade, festivities will continue in Belmore Park and Montague Street, with a Show & Shine held in front of Court House, a Crime Writers Q & A, Music to Spy By open mic at the Goulburn Club, Shagadelic Disco in the park and the Secret Agents Gala Dinner featuring Sir Sean, Miss Moneypenny and The Strictly Bassey Show with eight piece orchestra.
In particular they’re looking for Lotus Esprits to take part in the parade, but any and all Lotus Vehicles from all eras are welcome to join in.
A launch story is up on the Goulburn Post website here, and you can head www.spyfestgoulburn.com.au for all of the official details.
Catching Up with the Lotus Only Track Day, Monday 29th June 2015 at Wakefield Park
Monday 29th June dawned sometime around 6.30am.. not that you could tell with the freezing fog blanketing the area! Those of us who received Mark’s text warning of a possible delay repaired to Rose’s Cafe in Goulburn for a coffee and something to line the stomach (or in my case possibly slow me down!) – oddly when Tim Mackie and I walked in there were four coppers already there – they must have known we were coming.
Once at the track, the car inspections were dispensed with pretty quickly, and the drivers’ briefing turned from a brief to a joke telling session to fill the time while everyone hopped from one foot to the other to keep warm. Best guess was an 11am start, but in the end the fog just wouldn’t play the game, so some cars went out on “sighting” laps – not sure what they sighted.
Eventually we were able to catch a glimpse of the full length of the straight, then the marshall point at the Fish-hook loomed into view, and finally we could just see the top of the hill, so off went the first race session at around 12.
Thereafter Race Solutions ran a faultless day, as always, and managed to squeeze four sessions in for everyone, including the obligatory handicap race as one of the last sessions. That turned out (with one notable exception) to have been very well ordered, with everyone battling for places in the last few laps and several great place-swaps going on. The exception was the winner, Rob Bryden, who took a leaf from David “Sandbagger” Mottram, and didn’t manage better than 1.08s all day until the race, when miraculously he pulled 1.05s out of the bag! So Rob took the Handicap Trophy away (well, he will when it returns from South Australia) and everyone else seemed to have had huge fun too.
As always, the planning and execution were perfect, and we would like to send a very grateful thanks to Mark O’Connor, Lee and the team at Simply Sports Cars, and of course the crew of volunteers from Race Solutions for such a successful and enjoyable day. Even hanging around in the fog was fun, giving us a chance to chew the fat with friends and meet up with interstaters (well done to all who came from Queensland, Victoria and South Australia).
The next Lotus Only Track Day will be held on November the 21st at Winton, and is already shaping up to be a great day. Watch your email for the notification, and get in early!
By Ashton Roskill, image thanks to Simon Kalis.
Lotus Photos: CSCA Round 3 & Lotus Only Day by Simon Kalis
Head to Wakefield Park for another look at the Lotus Only Track Day and the third round of sprints in the 2015 CSCA series thanks to these brilliant shots by Simon Kalis.
Lotus Photos: CSCA Round 3 at Wakefield Park
Lotus sprinters made the road trip out to Goulburn this past weekend, braving its meteorological wintertime quirks to enjoy a packed weekend of Lotus motorsport. Over the course of the weekend Wakefield Park played host to the third round of the 2015 CSCA series, the All British Day race day and a Lotus Only Track Day organised by Simply Sports Cars, which kicked the week off in style on Monday.
Local photographer JC Smith and unassuming grandfather Syd Reinhardt (the one lifting a wheel above) have kindly shared some shots from the weekend with us. Scroll down to the gallery below, and enjoy!
The Preserve June 2015 Available for Download
‘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!
Its June 2015 edition has just been sent out to members and is now available for download on the members’ page.
This month’s newsletter includes the entry form for the upcoming Shannons Sydney Classic Concours, Club Chat with David Neely, a recap of the National Motoring Heritage Day, eye candy in the form of a 1966 Shelby 427 Cobra and 1927 Talbot Lago T26 and a whole lot more.
We are still looking to encourage entries to the event concours. Ten categories based on year will be contested, with a club allowed one entry into each. If you are interested in getting involved in the concours please get in touch!
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!
July 2015 Edition of Lotus Notes Available for Download
The wizardly wordsmiths responsible for Lotus Notes have summoned the July edition into existence, and it is now available for download from the ‘Members’ page!
This month’s features include:
- Day Run – Wivenhoe and Mt. Glorious
- Cultural Activities – A Visit to the NGV
- Member Profile – Geoff Winder CLA
- 2015 CSCA June Report
- MSCA Sprint Championship Round 4
And much, much more! Head to the ‘Members’ page here to download your copy.
The newsletter is a membership benefit of Club Lotus Australia, and will as such require you to be logged in to your members account. And if you’re not a member yet, what’s up? Hit this link to find out more about the club and why you should become one!