Lotus Club Queensland
Dedicated to the promotion and enhancement of the Lotus experience
Login
Register
  • Home
  • About Us
  • Membership
    • Member Login
  • Events
    • Calendar
  • Motorsport
    • Lakeside DTC Timed Laps
    • LAKESIDE DTC RESULTS
  • Magazine
  • For Sale
    • Merchandise
    • Classifieds
  • Posts
  • Galleries
  • Directory
    • Suppliers & Parts
    • Advertisers
  • Archives
Joe

Morgan Park – Sept 2014

Morgan Park Sprints – Round 4

By Geoff Noble, Photos by Gloria Wade

The usual LCQ Sprint diehards made the trek from Brisbane for the final round of the Supersprint Series and for the first time in 2014, Warwick turned on perfect weather for a full weekend!

We had Joe Arico, Clive Wade, John Flynn, Rob Stevens, and Jason Patullo running their Elises in the 0 – 2000cc Sportscar Class, with Martin O’Brien, Matt Plowman and myself in the over 3000 litre class, with the ‘ring in’ Mick Cullum in his turbo Birkin. John Barram had the Cheetah out for a run in the Racing Car section, with Greg Bray campaigning the 61 in the Formula Ford category. Mike Goodfellow also took time out from his regular overseas jaunts to dust off the Caterham. And, how could I forget, regular trophy burglar Wade Greensill in the M100 (Sportscars 2001 – 2000cc)

After the Friday practice (best value track time in Australia at $30 for the afternoon) most of us headed back to our regular haunt (Pitstop Lodge) to consume Thai takeaway and watch the NRL semi final on TV. As well as tell some lies. The real ‘hard’ individuals put up tents and camped. Then there were the folk in between who stayed at some sort of hut at the caravan park!

Competition wise, everything went well with Clive and Rob both getting PB’s early. That was until the final run on Saturday afternoon, when Matt’s diff cried “enough” and he was towed back in. Matt and Sally were going home that night anyway (some feeble excuse about having to attend a wedding!) and then Wade gave detailed instructions on who/how to collect his trophy, and he and Aston headed back as well. We then had the now traditional final round sausage sizzle and photo hand-out at the circuit Saturday afternoon. The departees left us a few short at the dinner table, but we made the most of it with our own private room at the Warwick Hotel for dinner, followed by a nightcap or two back at Pitstop and more footy on the TV. But only the real diehards stayed awake for the Singapore Grand Prix qually!

Sunday was more perfect weather, which saw John Barram starting to lay down some quick times in the Cheetah, Clive overdriving the car and reverting to his old trick of spinning, Greg getting on top in the Formula Ford battle, and Mick Cullum trying to get his gazillion horsepower, wannabe 7 to handle. The organisers pulled stumps reasonably early, which was understandable as local boy Matt Campbell was competing in the Porsche Challenge at Phillip Island and they needed to get things squared away so they could watch that race on TV. A couple of us stayed back and watched it too. That kind of rounded out a perfect weekend (for most of us) as Matt dominated with pole, 3 race wins, and a new lap record!

Jason-HPE
Rob-following-Clive
Rob-and-Clive
Mike-in-Caterham
Mick-in-Birkin
Martin-Elise-S3
John-Flynn-leading
John-Barram-Cheetah
Joe-ahead-John-F
1-Grandstand-grand-view
Greg-Lotus-61
Geoff-Supercharged-HPE
7-Martin-John-
6-Joe-Geoff-Mick
5-LCQ-members-photo-distribution
4-Setting-up-camp-sunset
3-John-Barram-happy-camper
2-Mike-Maggie-unloading-Caterham

[Show slideshow]
All British Day – Sep 2014 Crows Nest Run – Oct 2014

Related Posts

mp-banner

Events, Gallery 2022, Homepage, Racing

Morgan Park Sprints R4

gold-rush-banner

Events, Gallery 2022, Homepage, Racing

Gold Rush Hill Sprint – 2022

leyburn-banner

Events, Gallery 2022, Homepage, Racing

Leyburn 2022

Random images

derriere-to-die-for dtc-oops-missed Mathew and Victor Sweeney Pre Race Briefing Ormiston-5 Clive, Shane & Jenny Shane-Murphy-announcing-winners Jenny-and-Norma MG_5995 MG_5975 Male bonding helmet-planters 2-Arrival-at-Birches-Restaurant-1 MG_8830 MG_8802 123_2374_IMG IMG_4276 IMG_6506 image_181 lot_016 Des-Hill-by-SDPICS IMG_0471-0 Everyone-embraced-the-tropical-theme-R-Messenger Des-Hill-ready-for-scrutineering-A-Stevens Hariett-Mackie-and-her-mum-Elizabeth-Mackie Happy Spectators John Flynn 2014 Lotus Elise - 3 Lotus_Only_Track_Day_at_Mount_Panorama_Bathurst_Februar gw_Cat in the Lotus line up Exiges-doing-themselves-proud-in-GT-Sports-Trophy CRW_6579_RJ Steve-Blackie-having-the-time-of-his-life-by-SDPICS Tony-and-Sandra-Seymour-by-Emma-Morley elans-2 Trevor & Derek Alex, Daniel, Clive & Barry 20160930_085334 Liam and Ken - Oil Everywhere NSX_pic3 Jon P1010075 aa Yahoo-for-the-Ring-ins-team Mar-main-16 Lotus-Elise-S3 IMG_5065 IMG_4893 lec_0190 P1060071 Ploughman's Lunch main-0 P1010074 IMG_0007 IMGP8575 IMG_0080 IMG_0421 20130630_130410 img_1027 img_1104 img_1046 image_087 MG_4268 07c Maree_and_Geoff On_the_grid P1050558 Club_Lotus_Dec_08_001 P1050419 IMG_3873 P1010001 IMG_8054 image_066 image_208 IMG_5081 IMG_5163 Pato_and_Greg IMG_0917 IMG_8073 IMG_8165 Starting Grid 1 Waiting for the fog to lift 1 Steve, Mike & Dick_gw Beechams 2 20190427_104708 IMG20210427103700 IMG_9111 IMG_9684 Quinn and Co _MG_9582 as Smart Object-1 0-2000cc-Supermodified.-John-Barram-Andrew-Row-and-Bridie-Moran Craig-Wilsons-Lotus-Elan-S1-DHC-winner-of-Class-2-1963-1974 Dick alex-gostwyck-chapel-2 main-15 20140304_192936 Clives in the bay Jason braving It IMAG5939 Rob and Clive 20170709_104602

Recent Articles

  • Morgan Park Sprints R4
  • Kev’s Big Day Out
  • Duratec Elise – better late than never
  • Gold Rush Hill Sprint – 2022
  • Marburg Pub Run – 4 Sept 2022
  • Unique +2 Road Trip to Brisbane
  • Leyburn 2022
  • August 2022 DTC

Latest Gallery Images

20220220_093834 20220220_093818 20220220_093827 20220220_093743 20220220_093812 20220220_093730

Search articles by category

Archived articles

Lotus Club Queensland
© Lotus Club Queensland   |   Site by Black Eye Studios