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
Jon-de-helmeting

Round 1 – 2016 ICC Khanacross

You can almost guarantee a great event by the HSCCQ at Willowbank. Organised, friendly, well planned, full CAMS spec scrutineering and ball tearing, arse-out racing all day.

As usual, we weren’t disappointed.
Having won last year’s Challenge, expectations were high for the crew. Shane Murphy, Jon Young, Jason McGarry, Liam Philp and yours truly represented the “Seven” fraternity. Martin O’Brien held up the Elige end (no typo, I have decided the generic Elige covers all Elise and Exige variants) and a ring-in or two – the GT3 of Phil Hart won’t go astray!

The tests are handed out on lovely colour copied pages. Two this time, with two runs on each, then two runs in reverse. That’s eight runs in all, with little time between. Entries split into two groups with the entire LCQ group together, save for Phil who kept the rest honest all day.

The top end test was basically a simple figure eight done three times. Second gear mostly, maybe third for a bit. Easy unless you are pushing hard, in which case for goodness sake keep the count! Jon used a prime number sequence to ensure accuracy and certainty, with predictable results. Shane must have felt the flags were out of sequence so re-arranged quite a few, in front of the time keepers, just to ensure they got the point. Martin used the “go so fast they won’t see any errors” and did just that – very fast and no errors. Jason just made it up as he went, which looked spectacular but maybe didn’t impress the trial designers. I just kept thinking 3 you mug, 3.

Dick-and-Co The bottom end test was decidedly more complex. First, second, third and maybe fourth gear. Garage, witches hat slalom, narrow gate onto end of Drag Racing circuit, chicane, sharp left / right, short straight, hair pin, straight with chicanes, back in the gate, witches hat slalom and home. Then the opposite in the afternoon.

I have done these a few times and thrilled at their complexity. Very difficult to pick any meaningful lines quickly, so you really have to drive intuitively rather than by rote – no dig at the “pussy” circuit drivers meant there!

So the difficulty on this trial was getting a handle on it. Best way to go?

Quite simple really.

Drive a Lotus or Clubman and even us “amateurs” look skilled! Most of us sailed through, but Liam really shone with an outrageously quick time. Doesn’t happen that often, so thrilling when it does.

The day wouldn’t have been the same without the camaraderie of all the competitors and the support of Margie and Caitlin Philp and Jen Murphy.

So thank you HSCCQ for another good one, and follows the results which speak for themselves.

Martin O’Brien: 1st
Phil Hart: 2nd
Dick Reynolds: 3rd
Liam Philp: 7th
Shane Murphy: 13th
Jason McGarry: 17th
Jon Young: 35th

A-Pride-of-Sevens Afternoon-Tea Camp-Murphy Camp-Philp Dick-and-Co Jason-McGarry Jon-de-helmeting Ken-and-Liam Martin-hiding-in-the-shade Martin-limbering-up old-and-new Grandstand-Khanacross Bottom-Khanacross
[Show thumbnails]
Fish & Chip Run – Feb 2016 Day Run to Polly’s Country Kitchen

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_6503 Dressed tree in the main street The line up dtc-9 Jon and fans _MG_4646 as Smart Object-1 George-Rowes-Lotus11-1 IMGP3184 1-Grandstand-grand-view 5.Elises-garaged IMG_1914 McL_23 IMG_8425 IMG_8423 IMG_8416 IMG_4865 lw01mg2 IMG_4443 IMG_4412 Exige Bathurst 07252021-copy4 Photo-28-11-20-8-12-09-pm 9 IMG_3386 Winno-Kerri-Will-Piddington-with-Elisa IMG_9824-Different-generations-at-Lakeside-6 Complimentary Mother's Day morning tea Mica Steenstrup 2006 BMW I30 - 2 20130511_101707 vb-Great colour scheme Kelly-Garry_gw Church before breakfast__ Geoff in his HPE Organisers, Anita & Derek Timers Phil Mug with Slicks Ploughman's Lunch IMG_8499 IMG_8489 IMG_8458 IMG_6422 20130511_093747 img_1124 IMG_0338 Ploughman's Lunch IMG_4409 Pau_for_the_historic_GP main-2 BTP1-A-problem Mar-main-23 Joe,-Ron- P1010419 2006_08_27_Gympie_Skid_Pan0001 IMG_5183 IMG_8612 IMG_5313 112_1298_IMG 16a P1020798 P1090167 P6220134 P5250044 IMG_8150 IMG_8131 IMG_8057 IMG_8035 IMG_8020 MG_4798 Group_Shot 122_2240_IMG Steve-Fosss-record-breaking-Westfield-XTR2 P1020911 Scan 1 Jen-and-Sam-Murphy-At-the-original-GP-Track-Airfield DSC_0288 Jasons-Exige Lunch_at_Pitstop_Cafe Westfield IMG_0512 Porsche-911 IMG_0032 Instructions 3 of 8 Matt-following-Geoff_gw main-20 alex-gostwyck-chapel-2 off-to-school Rob - how many 20200815_115857 Garry and Jason main-20 Ruby-Messenger-with-Elisa elder-statesman-of-the-circuit gather-round Margie-&-Karen buick-2 Competition line up IMGP8546 Vyv-Steve-Richard Sam on the Grid

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