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
goldrush-banner

Gold Rush Hill Sprint

By Jason McGarry.

Gold Rush Hill Sprint is one of the longest in Australia. It is situated on the eastern side of Mt Morgan in Central Qld about 30mins west of Rockhampton.

The public road is 3km long with 26 corners and 160m rise in elevation making it a truly unique stretch of bitumen. There were 170 entrants with over 500 people staying in the region and spending many thousands of dollars which is very welcomed, in fact we were able to get the local Newsagent/Coffee Shop to open early each morning to provide the necessary caffeine to get the day started. (Shout out to Wattle Bee Newsxpress) I am pretty sure there were only 3 Lotus Club Qld members running, Peter Quinn in his Elise, Euan McGarry in Caterham R300 and yours truly in Exige 350. There was another Lotus Evora driven by Grant Pratt in the event as well.

Although timing was causing was the normal problems first up, which reduced the number of runs achieved on the first day, the organisers really turned it around on Sunday so we ended with the planned 6 runs. Peter and myself were putting together some conservative solid runs on the first day and Euan was in in the same space as us. But Sunday morning Euan found his right foot (he hadn’t driven the Caterham for over 9 months) and achieved some great pace with him taking multiple seconds off each run, as a dad it was great see. After watching some of the video footage he is such a smooth driver compared to his dad.

In the end the 3 of us completed the weekend with no injuries except for my ego, Euan finished 4th in his class with a 1m 54.525s (21 entries, 23rd outright), Peter finished 5th in his class 2m 6.852s (19 enteries 63rd outright) and I finished 5th in class 2m 1.933s (25 enteries 104 outright).

The overall winner was Dylan Cothill in a Nissan R35 GTR with 1m 45.523s. This is a great event and I strongly encourage entering.

Jason-and-Euan
Jason-by-Clint-Janson
Euan-heading-up-the-hill-by-Clint-Janson
IMG_4976-1
Peters-Elise
Euan-all-pumped-up
Euan-by-Clint-Janson

[Show slideshow]
Rd 4 Mount Cotton 2021 2021 Gold Rush Hill Sprint, Toyota Celica GT4 and Classic Lotus

Related Posts

mp-banner

Events, Gallery 2022, Homepage, Racing

Morgan Park Sprints R4

kevs-banner

EMRs, Gallery 2022, Homepage

Kev’s Big Day Out

duratec-banner

Articles, Homepage, Technical

Duratec Elise – better late than never

Random images

IMG_6772 A-meaningful-conversation Alex-and-Carol Such_a_stunning_butterfly Elans_outside_Linaker_Bldg_La_Trobe 123_2371_IMG 121_2127_IMG IMG_4421 IMG_4408 IMG_7135 waiting-for-rest-of-the-group image_073 IMG_6221 IMG_5319 IMG_3946 20a Greg_Maggie_Graham_John Club_Lotus_Dec_08_029 IMG_3982 IMG-0178 The Crew Happily reviewing the day's events DTC-025 A Pair of Clowns Geoff Mt-Cotton-Hillclimb-Sep17-15 europas-2 20170424_133139 img_1097 IMG-0161 20161105_100109 worked-fj-holden Daryl\'s Caterham and a stunned crowd Garry _MG_4731 as Smart Object-1 concours-8 Austin-Mini IMG_3181 Mar-main-117 Mar-main-88 Jan-main-9 Craig-Wilson- main-13 Daryl's-Seven Mal,-Geoff,-Marie 2006_08_27_Gympie_Skid_Pan0055 Mar-main-94 IMG_0235_1 img_1093 IMG_0358 IMG_9141 lec_0191 IMGP2258 Ploughman's Lunch DSC03835 IMG_8050 IMG_8069 IMG_8032 IMG_7999 IMG_0532 IMG_8076 IMG_0519 DSC03824 IMG_8590 122_2239_IMG IMG_8462 P1010532 IMG_6423 P5250023 IMG_3115 Stepping-back-in-time Zaid at Noosa Surf Club main-3 D74_9572_full 2-Drew-Dundas mals-elise 27-jm35 007 Historic-Gold-Battery Leanne-Peter a cold start Matt-Geoff-and-Martin Concours-d’Inelegance _MG_9593 as Smart Object-1 Adam-and-a-trial-fit-by-Craig-Wilson IMGP8636 Jon, Dick and Vyvyan alex-photo-2 main-15 Amos and Co IMG_0080 The Eagle Rock Cafe in Laidley IMGP8296 IMG_0857 gather-round steve-03 20181111_144324 Patricks-26R-Elan-12 Mix and Match Rob in front Winner-Russell-with-presenter-Geoff

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