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
scmsc-dtc-banner

SCMSC DTC

Sunshine Coast Motor Sport Club – Round 6 Lakeside DTC (May 2019)

Words and pics by Shane Murphy.

Round 3 of the Lotus Club Queensland DTC series was cancelled at short notice by Lakeside management, a higher priority user conflicted with us and our club and booking were punted into touch.

Luckily for club members a long-time supporter of our events, the Sunshine Coast Motor Sport Club had an event planned for the same weekend, but on the Saturday. Daryl was on to it immediately and an invitation was issued for our club members to sign on.

With the change in date and with fifteen spots available to use, diaries were shuffled, wives, partners and comrades consulted but alas only three were granted a leave pass and were able to register, Jon (Smokin) Young, Daryl (big Daz or the Old fella) Wilson, Mal (the coasty) Gray and Shane (Ace) Murphy, a quality field.

The SCMSC wrangled a field of 32 vehicles with very enthusiastic drivers in a very mixed breed of machinery. In the true spirit of Lotus one of the (unnamed competitors) proceeded to dismantle his Hyundai Excel, removing the bonnet, headlamps, doors and boot-lid, just adding lightness.

Team LCQ were pretty keen to try the different layout and with electronic timers deployed the guys were able to overlap two cars on the track thus plenty of runs were on offer.

We went hard at it all morning, the longer track configuration suited the nimbler with a few extra horses and we kept ourselves near the top quartile of the timing sheets, alas by lunchtime and with two or three corners covered in dirt, our times stabilised. Jon (mentally) and Daryl (physically), depleted from 7 runs called it stumps, I managed two extra runs and Mal punted on, getting his new suspension set up under control and chipping away at the timing sheets. See you at Noosa Mal?

Thanks to the crew from the north coast, like our own club a fun event with plenty of characters, Daryl will definitely be thinking about an alternative layout for our next event, just to keep us on our toes.

Big-Daz
Day-of-the-long-shadows
Relaxing-Mal
Smokin-Jon
The-Fellas

[Show slideshow]
Tyred, windy, a big cook up and Zucchini 2019 Noosa Winter Hillclimb

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_6621 Rob-following-Clive btiu-14 P1090758 IMG_0005 IMG_6513 118_1813_IMG IMG_4411 image_263 IMG_3316 IMG_2905 119_1946_IMG MG_4268 5_Rob_on_the_grid Mal_Kelson PICT7261 P1060549 P1060240 020_20 Old Boys Tony-Peter-and-Criss-cars-on-display-at-the-finish-in-Cairns Mike-Moore-with-Cris-Meg-Johansen IMG-0162 IMGP0426 SANY0075 John F, Rob and Joe two-extra-seats IMAG5402_1 121_2141_IMG Steve, Scott and Adam Clive with Lachlan Cat 'n' Seven _MG_4557 as Smart Object-1 On the track concours-9 Delivering-the-verdict Shane-on-the-straight 090131_JSS_Zwartkops_013a Darryl- main-48 2006_08_27_Gympie_Skid_Pan0009 Sep_MS02_7 IMG_0465_copy P1060117 P1060083 P1060076 Ealand_Lotus_Smeeth_Lotus_20_Chisholm_Gemini_Mk3 Peter_Brock_Memorial_Bathurst_NSW P1050555 IMGP2239 Ploughman's Lunch IMG_0219 IMG_0205 IMG_0088 IMG_0291 img_1031 image_139 n751569074_589937_5489 IMG_8131 IMG_8037 IMG_0556 DSC03859 IMG_8526 IMG_5191 IMG_5139 P1090168 Clive-at-Breakfast- image_010 IMG_8450 IMG_3873 IMG_3933 Sign DSC_0230 photo-15 mt1 Chris-Farrell-in-his-1982-F2-Spirit-Honda-201 IMG20210427103700 Shane DTC-Pits Timing Crew Winston-and-Wil The-Lotus-line-up-2-GPitt Euan-by-Clint-Janson 20200815_143825 Quinn and Co Flutterbies@Tyalgum_gw Trophy-for-best-car-of-show-Lotus-7 IMG_6151 Porsche-911 DSC_4145 main-16 Morning tea line up_gw main-18 The-tasting-table_GW beautiful-healey-engine Rob IMGP8256 main-44 Transport-Museum-Hillman-Minx-1960-3 IMAG6126

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