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
noosa-boys-banner

Noosa Hill Climb Nov 2016

Year’s end and we’re back for the Southern Cross Sheds Summer Noosa Hill Climb.

By Dick Reynolds

Jason McGarry (Caterham), Shane and Jenny Murphy (Lotus Seven S2), Jon Young (Caterham), Zaid and Gail Latiffe (Exige), Peter Quinn (Elise), Pat Richards (Elise), Peter Boel (Lotus 23B) and Rob Manning (Mitsubishi FTO) plus yours truly (Caterham) lining up once again.

Jason arrived very early and set up our pits in a great location, out under the eucalypts. The Elise guys domiciled ‘around the corner’ and Peter nestled in with the race cars out front. The usual teething problems with any big event occurred. But mostly, we had to endure delays through accidents on the track. Unfortunately, this prevailed for most of the weekend.

With 160 or so entries there were lots of cars and no shortage of competitive spirit. Declared a “fast” track, the competitive spirit, quick cars and over-enthusiastic driving meant quite a few offs resulting in some severe car damage. Thankfully, little in the way of injury. The guys running the event performed admirably to ensure we still carried on – well – admirably! The first run is a so-called sighting run. Check out the track, sort the car and generally get into a bit of a groove.

First competitive run:   Final quickest times:
Dick Reynolds 64.41   Peter Boel 63.62
Jason McGarry 65.96   Dick Reynolds 64.41
Zaid Latiff 66.40   Zaid Latiff 65.88
Peter Boel 66.45   Jason McGarry 65.96
Jon Young 68.47   Jon Young 67.47
Peter Quinn 68.76   Peter Quinn 68.17
Pat Richards 69.25   Pat Richards 68.67
Shane Murphy 69.47   Rob Manning 69.44
Rob Manning 72.73   Shane Murphy 69.47

The weekend progressed with all the usual shenanigans – what happens on the track stays on the track! The only mechanical failure was Rob having a front-end collapse in the FTO. No offs that I am aware of.

Stand outs:

  1. The coffee man as usual- “Small flat white, double shot, thanks mate!”
  2. Fantastic Noosa Beach and HRCC Car Club organisation;
  3. Track marshals, timekeepers, officials, ambulance, tow truck and all;
  4. Lotus Club camaraderie;
  5. The RSL bus;
  6. Jon’s PB;
  7. Jason’s fantastic assistance with all things;
  8. All Club members under 70.00 – no mean feat!
  9. Hankook 185/550/13 soft slicks.

A great weekend and terrific event not to be missed, with all getting home safely. Perhaps you can join us next year?

IMG_0081 20161106_150016 IMG_0065 IMG_0068 IMG_0069 IMG_0072 IMG_0073 IMG_0076 IMG_0077 IMG_0079 20161106_145815 IMG_0083 IMG_0085 IMG_0088 IMG_0097 IMG_0098 IMG_0101 IMG_0102 noosa-boys-full 20161106_083813 20161105_082215 20161105_082233 20161105_091741 20161105_091901 20161105_100109 20161105_100120 20161105_103008 20161105_111852 20161105_111913 20161105_073640 20161106_094150 20161106_094219 20161106_144520 20161106_144551 20161106_144643 20161106_144656 20161106_145405 20161106_145748
[Show thumbnails]
ICC Regularity Oct 2016 ICC Round 9 – Motorkhana

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_5050 Martin-Elise-S3 9.George-James P1020846 IMG_5285 IMG_3773 McL_09 image_162 IMG_7755 IMG_5323 MG_7866 IMG_6305 IMG_7426 IMG_5216 MG_4273 23_Clive_attempting_to_get_Garry_started DSC05019 IMG_7824 End_of_the_Super_Sprint_series IMG_7567 20220220_093818 IMG_4859 Full-House IMG_1411 IMG_9976 Martin O'Brien DTC Lunch Time _MG_9165 as Smart Object-1 Cris and Meg IMG_0316 What are these Shane in Period Set Go 20160522_101521 Vyvyans-Elan-1 IMG_4908 IMG_4896 10-Viewing-the-Lockyer-Legends Ealand_Lotus_18_Thallon_MRCF_31_1 Mar-main-48 Mar-main-30 Concourse-judges-Wade-and-Derek main-10 John_s_Seven Geoff_Noble_Elise_S2 IMG_0293_1 lec_0181 Derek_s_340R Elise_through_The_Cutting_Bathurst_NSW P1080264 IMGP2259 Ploughman's Lunch IMG_9149 DSC_5352 IMG_0338 20130630_140455 IMG_6407 014_14 Jocelyn_John_in_Lotus_camp P1050521 P6220116 Past_President_future_President 20090822_088 Cane_field_Moderns IMG_8118 Russell_Leigh_Wade_Derek_Anita IMG_0519 IMG_8481 image_045 image_061 image_139 IMG_7993 DSC03853 image_147 DSC_0230 Craig-Elan-1 Jasons-son-Curtis Shanes-Seven Goody-Bag Shane Garrys-Lotus-Cortina-1 A-queue-of-clubbies High Hopes Jasons-Exige Jon-de-helmeting Lindsays-Exige 2-Trevor-Doyle Dryer The Red Machine Broken-Axle IMG_8208 IMGP8569 _MG_9679 as Smart Object-1 diy-spitfire_ main-28 IMG_0866 Paddy Wagon IMAG5941 alvis-2 IMAG6156

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