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
motorkhana-banner

HSCCQ / Interclub Challenge Motorkhana

By Dick Reynolds, photos by Shane Murphy.

If there’s one thing about Motorkhanas, it’s that you need a good memory. No point being quick if you can’t remember where you are going. The tests for this event, which took place on 9th April, looked easy but were in fact rather tricky.

Particularly Happy Birthday and Dragonfly. As usual the HSCCQ guys, who do these all the time, sailed along pushing the cars hard as. The rest of us had to be a lot more circumspect.

Having said that, between Shane, Phil and myself we only had three WD’s (Wrong Directions). Theory was to get one in the bank, as in take the first run easy so as not to WD, then go like hell in the second. (We only get two runs for each, fastest time counted.) The problem being, if you WD, your time is the slowest run by the slowest competitor, plus 5 seconds. Basically, it puts you out of the running.

A look at the run times will show Shane had little regard for the “bank” theory. Very courageous!

The other issue we Clubman / Elise people suffer, is: no meaningful handbrake. This can be got around by going a circuitous route around the flags, keeping the speed up. Again, the times show we proved OK at this.

Easily the quickest car was the Datsun 1600 of Ken and Pauline Graham. They comfortably won the event, and were nothing short of thrilling to watch. Likewise, the “Specials” of Noel Caplet and Keith Butcher. “Specials” being cars built specifically for Motorkhanas – lightweight and unregistered with trick hand brakes and slicks. Given that we came fifth, twelfth and fourteenth in the event, Lotus / Caterham cars have proved their worth once again. Having done a few of these events, I can safely say it was one of the best, and had a lot of very happy drivers at the conclusion.

As for the ICC component, Lotus probably haven’t reached the top – by a long shot, but we are certainly in there with a chance. HSCCQ will clean up, and we hope to have kept the Porsche people at bay.

Thank you to the HSCCQ for another beautifully run event. Particularly Scott Longton, Clerk of Course, Keith Butcher, Chief Facilitator (or something) and Mary Caplet and her protégé on the timing. Not forgetting the guys who set up the track, of course.

It would be nice to get a few more Lotus entrants along next time. Have a look at the videos when you can, and they may just pique your interest.

Team Lotus Green Machine Phils Elise Tactics Shane & Dick - Race Ready Timing Crew The Bleachers IMG_0350 Left Right A bit of Understeer Dick is Go Go Go Clsong In Dick Box Box Box Phil - Lined Up Nailed It Gallery Last Run Visualising Slicks Off Phil and Gail A great day
[Show thumbnails]
Binna Burra Social Run My Lotus 27 Barn Find

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_8737 Shanes-Lotus7-1 dashboard 6-Greg-in-Lotus-61.jpg MG_6317 MG_6293 20140928_093444 001 118_1815_IMG 20130814_080234 On the track IMG_7662 IMG_7660 McL_24 IMG_8412 IMG_4867 IMG_4825 IMG_4494 IMG_4450 IMG_6850 MG-8187 172_THC22_2022-1 IMG_4859 aa The-odd-one-out_gw Pumped-for-a-great-week-ahead IMG_1406 John Barram in his 7 Exige Bathurst Mark A and Martin IMG_8791 IMG_0068 20161106_094150 20160522_101234 Ready for run 5 Herrmann-1 Breakfast Banter The Barram Family's entry in the Red Bull Billycart Challenge 3463 DS7_3434_full IMG_7595 122_2258_IMG 122_2252_IMG 122_2243_IMG IMG_8456 Campfire-Dinner-1 Inside-the-Outpost-Cafe-for-lunch 2006_08_27_Gympie_Skid_Pan0046 F1000018 F1000009 119_1941_IMG Genuine_AC_Cobra IMG_0292 IMG_0442 Ploughman's Lunch Ploughman's Lunch IMG_0466 IMG_0094 1426859018_f63ace8db0_m_1 P1020731 10h 10e IMG_7927 12a image_206 IMG_2607 017_17 2009_Maccleans_Bridge_002 P5250023 P5250018 IMG_6364 31b IMG_5205 IMG_8106 IMG_5132 IMG_5080 DSC_0361 main-0 Goody-Bag main-2 award-tony-galletly 20200816_080443 award-craig-wilson 20200815_075805 Line-up-at-Tyalgum_gw tony-in-discussion Paul, Peter and Pat DSC_0224 IMG_8192 20200815_075712 A Special photo-11 Beer-wine-chat_gw IMG_0039 Mt Warning _MG_9673 as Smart Object-1 Golden-Grove-Estate_GW alex-gostwyck-chapel-2 S1-Elise IMGP8283 IMAG6190

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