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
IMGP0426

Baskerville Tasmania – 29 Sept 2016

Historic meeting at Baskerville, Tasmania

Story by Grahame Vaughan, photos Garry Saunderson.

Thursday the 29th of September was a cold and wet day as we headed south from Launceston to the Baskerville Raceway, about 30km north of Hobart, for practice prior to the Annual Historic Meeting.

The meeting was over four days starting that day. An incentive was free practice on Thursday with official practice on Friday morning followed by the more serious stuff on Saturday and Sunday.

Baskerville Raceway deserves a few words.

Started on an enthusiastic farmer’s property in 1958, it has evolved into a terrific small track of a tad over 2km. Alan Jones is quoted as saying it’s the best small track in oz and I can`t quarrel with that assessment.

Interestingly old fashioned, with good undulations and a sharp left hander on the crest add to a drive that brings the driver as opposed to horsepower into contention. Reminded me of the old Amaroo Park circuit.

A major feature of this event is the local support with crowds up to 5,000 coming to watch, as the track is effectively at the bottom of a small valley giving all watchers an uninterrupted view of the entire race activity.

Under water Frankly, I had trouble recalling the last time I had driven around a race track with the wipers flat chat; for that matter some years since last time on any track!

So, things went well enough on Thursday but overnight Anne and I were aware of heavy rain and drove through much water over the road to Friday’s runs to find at least a foot of water right across the track leading to the day being cancelled – another first!

I confess a smug smile as I had driven the Elan to the meeting, as all the trailers and the trailer park were well under water, leading to a lot of bad words being heard by owners.

Apart from my Elan there were the Series 4 Sevens of Michael Byrne and the newly acquired similar car of Wayne Clark, though his is a dedicated racer as opposed to sports car of Michael’s, so they didn’t compete against each other. Chris Martin ran his Westfield Replica Eleven to round off the cars with both him and me in different Regularity events.

This Historic Meeting has the usual range of cars with many Group N and the newer classes also like Winton; motorbikes – quite a highlight in the wet.

Maybe good luck or just judgement but I had booked a marquee and brought a closed car so the weather was much less of a problem for myself.

Several Regularities were a shambles as drivers were lulled into nominating dry times only to run in a sudden downpour with nobody getting points. Well, it is for fun anyway.

The Sunday remained dry so the open cars were far happier. The mood and feel of the meeting is like Queensland with a mostly relaxed, friendly atmosphere and folk out to help not hinder.

The future. A well run meeting and the best news last. The locals have raised a fortune themselves and will resurface the full track starting at Christmas. So next year will be a ripper.

Feel free to call me should you need more info prior to coming. As many as a third of the 200 starters come over the ditch, most from Victoria, possibly one soul from Western Australia as I understand.

There are good digs only 15 minutes away and often a part subsidy of sorts for mainland cars.

Overall a pleasing 4 days, each different, and the Elan driven both ways and on the track went beautifully.

I would like to acknowledge the enthusiasm of “Saundo” to come to this meeting each year and his excellent photos.

Come and play!

20160930_085334 IMGP0037 IMGP0055 IMGP0208 IMGP0219 IMGP0245 IMGP0287 IMGP0333 IMGP0349 IMGP0361 IMGP0426
[Show thumbnails]
My Banyan Tree Curry Night LCQ member helps Porsche to 2nd title

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

IMG_8785 btiu-01 IMG_4367 MG_8796 P1020867 IMG_6518 IMG_6194 IMG_8981 IMG_4282 IMG_4270 dear-old-austin McL_14 121_2149_IMG 121_2148_IMG lw01py IMG_4438 IMG_4427 IMG_7056 IMG_6821 IMG_6738 Martin no plate aa unnamed-8 David-Yule-all-prepped-and-ready-by-Emma-Morley IMG_1416 20180916_072038 Lindsay Close 2007 Lotus Exige - 2 IMG_1977 col-and-tassie-friend 20161105_073640 IMG_0414 Leyburn 2016 ph dtc-ken-philp Martin Duursma and Richard Wodhams 12-The-outdoor-breakfast-lot and-the-cat-came-too 17-Elise-garages.jpg Steve Elise-vs-Elise Geoff-helping-Dan-do-some-repairs- Daryl_and_Mitch_checking_times DSC03836 IMG_3640 IMG_7388 image_024 clubmans main-36 A-bit-of-fatherly-advice-being-given Garry's-Elise image_029 main-22 P1010410 lec_0175 Classic_Team_Lotus Ploughman's Lunch IMG_0011 IMGP8578 IMG_0212 12_IMG_9569 IMG_8045 33c IMG_5228 7_Drivers_and_cars IMG_8938 IMG_4338 IMG_5306 image_242 DSC_1531 P1060544 Derek_s_340R P1060291 P1050533 IMG_3936 IMG_3933 P1020781 P5250042 IMG_8150 Waiting for the fog to lift 1 Jasons-R300 Shine-for-the-show Noosa Surf Club _MG_9540 as Smart Object-1 awaiting-take-off Happy-Laps-2014 Matt Mobile phils-evora-1 Colin-event-organiser_gw tony-in-discussion Lots-of-Lotus Camp photo-9 image2-2 IMG_1896 Tony-Galletly-getting-reaquainted-with-the-Plus-2 Jones-Winery-3 The Winners Digga-FM-Shazza shane-jen-relaxing Garry Competition line up

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