More than 160 competitors have put on an entertaining display for fans on the weekend as they contested the annual Autumn Historic Warwick historic race meeting at Morgan Park.
With 35 races spread across nine categories taking place, it was already a busy schedule for the annual event, not helped by morning fog causing major delays to each day.
Despite each morning starting an hour later, all fans, officials and drivers remained upbeat about the epic battles to ensue in what became an extended program which would see racing take place until the last light on both days.
Once the fog subsided and track sessions finally got underway, there was plenty of great racing to take place on the Warwick circuit, with the main attraction being the Heritage Touring Cars featuring Group A and C cars.
Dominating the category was Anthony Alford, the ex-Gibbs 1992 Nissan Skyline R32 driver taking out pole position and winning all but one of the category’s races, that other honour going to Terry Lawlor in the Lloyd Bax handicap race. Both Alford and Lawlor also claiming their respective trophy races, Alford winning the Glenn Seton (Group A) and Lawlor the John French (Group C).
The weekend’s biggest field came in the Group N categories with 30 drivers having lined up on the grid for the start of its special Jack Lacey Trophy Race, which was eventually won by Camaro driver Grant Wilson.
While Wilson won the special trophy race, it was Rod Cannon who would have ultimate bragging rights by the end of the race meeting as the Falcon GTHO driver went on to win the Group Nc class outright over Graeme Wakefield and Wilson, while Craig Thompson steered his 1964 Lotus Cortina was top in the Group Nb class.
In Formula Ford, there was plenty of close racing throughout the three races as Dylan Fahey took out outright top honours and Robert Buckley and Chris Fry grabbed class wins – all three topping their classes in two of the three races.
In the joint Group S and invited sports cars category, it was a Porsche 911 pilot Stan Adler who came away with the victory, although Invited driver Jon Siddins was the outright best performer of the day with two podiums and two wins.
Outside of the pure races, there were also healthy fields amongst the regularity and supersprint events.
Aaron Hodges was the dominant force in the Historic Sports Sedans Group U and Invited Supersprint, going fastest in all three sessions, while 22 cars featured in the regularity and cut multiple laps of the circuit over four sessions.
Morgan Park Raceway’s next classic meeting will be the Historic Queensland event on 2-4 July.