2018’s Muscle Car Masters, held over the Queen’s Birthday long weekend on the 9th and 10th of June, got off to a spectacularly soggy start. Things would only get better, however, as conditions improved, racing got closer and we celebrated Australia’s touring car history with round two of the 2018 Heritage Touring Cars series.
Muscle Car Masters may have moved to a new date for 2018, but it’s set to be the same massive celebration of Aussie touring car action that we all know and love. Heritage Touring Cars will return to the event and ensure that the big cars roar this Queen’s Birthday long weekend, June 9 & 10, when a magic collection of historic Group C & A touring cars takes to Sydney Motorsport Park to contest round two of the 2018 series.
After a successful 2017 Heritage Touring Cars season in the ex-Anthony Reid Asahi Kiko JTCC BMW M3, Duncan MacKellar has returned to Heritage Touring Cars competition for 2018 and brought with him the 1990 Italian Superturismo Championship Schnitzer BMW M3 of Roberto Ravaglia.
The 2018 Heritage Touring Car Series kicked off in style over the 13th to the 15th of April, when we joined the Shannons Nationals series to christen Australia’s newest motorsports facility – The Bend Motorsport Park.
This weekend, April 13 – 15, will see the 2018 Heritage Touring Cars series kick off at Australia’s newest motorsport facility – The Bend Motorsport Park in Tailem Bend, South Australia. We’ll be bringing a full field of 33 classic Australian Group C & A touring cars to Round 1 of the 2018 Shannons Nationals.
When we head to The Bend Motorsport Park this April 13-15 for Round 1 of the 2018 Heritage Touring Cars series, Darryl Leslight will join us for his first run in the ex-Colin Bond Masterton Homes Ford Capri.
With a splutter and a roar, the Heritage Touring Cars Series is set to fire up and go racing. The 2018 calendar is confirmed, with Round 1 of the series set for April 13 – 15 at The Bend in South Australia.
Over the 28th & 29th of October, the Heritage Touring Cars series wrapped up 2017’s touring car action with a brilliant weekend of racing at Muscle Car Masters. We left the circuit with class winners decided, one lap record broken and big smiles on our faces.
Just shy of 40 historic Australian Group C & A touring cars will head to Sydney Motorsport Park this weekend, over the 28th and 29th of October, to wrap up the 2017 Heritage Touring Cars series in spectacular style at Muscle Car Masters.
Veteran Heritage Touring Cars competitor Tony Pallas will be racing the only Australian Group A Jaguar XJ-S to have raced in the Australian Touring Car Championship, Garry Willmington’s Jaguar XJ-S, at Muscle Car Masters this 28-29 October. Fans of many-cylindered muscle should pay attention.
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