Interesting to note that Phillip Island was the scene of the "great last
race" in Nevil Shute's 1959 novel "On The Beach" Never saw the movie, but I
understand the racing scenes are in it.
Richard
----- Original Message -----
From: "Ian" <Ianhome@acohs.com.au>
To: "FOT" <fot@autox.team.net>
Sent: Monday, March 10, 2003 3:55 AM
Subject: racing!!
>
> Hi all,
>
> Just thought I would let everyone know that one of our members (Tony
Dains)
> got a first place in a recent handicap event at Historics at Phillip
Island
> in Ozzie. This meeting is now the biggest in Australia with almost 500
> entries. A couple of the big names turned up, Jack Brabham and Win Percy.
> And there were some great cars including the 55 Le Mans winning D Type
Jag,
> driven by Win, the fwd Miller from US, as well as other classics such as
> Bugatti, Alfa etc.
> The weekend was affected by rain, ntl, it was a great time and my little
> Spitty did extremely well, lapping 1 sec a lap faster than Tony in the
wet,
> got a fifth outright, and third in class. The class being 2L as there were
> no other runners below 2L. The little 1300 was pulling 8000 RPM onto the
> main straight, and was really showing some of the big Healeys. TR6s, Alfas
> and MGBs etc. the way home. As with all things racing however, my last run
> was marred by incident. My throttle cable let go and I had about two
> thousand revs by the time six laps had been completed - came LAST!!!
>
> Still, all good exerience, and cant wait till my next run.
>
> Cheers
> Ian
> TSOA 777
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