Phillip Island’s Historic Race Meeting 2009

We've had such great day's cruising to this event in 2006/7/8, perfect weather, great cars, non stop racing, lots of cars to check out on the track as well as the pits, that we are already looking forward to doing it again in 2009. The Phillip Island Classic just gets bigger every year and attracts many overseas historic racing enthusiasts who bring some famous & exotic cars to race at this event. Plus, F5000's, 60's touring cars, in all, over 500 historic race cars from the 1920' to 1985 take to the track. You are free to walk around the cars in the pit garages, chat to the owners/drivers & check out the many trade stands.
See the photos and report of the previous year's cruises to wet your appetite!

See photos from the 2006, 2007 and 2008 cruises.

Event Status

The event date has been confirmed as being held over the Labour Day weekend in March. Like the previous year, we will cruise on Saturday March 7th. Saturday is far less crowded than Sunday, making it very comfortable to wander around the pit garages at any time, grab some grub from one of the food stands and generally enjoy the whole day from our reserved track side car park.
We don't want to miss anything, so the start time for the departure from Tooradin is 9:00am. Shannons have confirmed that we'll be able to park our cars in the Shannons Walk area, right on the Start/Finish line. This is the prime location in the public area of the track, and makes getting to the pit garage area very convenient.


Cruise Captain - Alan Newton Car '69 Camaro	Cruise Assembly Point - Tooradin Cruise Departure - 8:30am Cruise Route The Cruise to the Grand Prix circuit leaves from Tooradin on the South Gippsland Highway at 8:30am. Look for the CRUISE signs as you enter Tooradin, park and come to the Let’s Go Cruisin’ Tent, present your entry receipt, collect your tickets, grab some breakfast or a coffee from one of the cafes, and be ready to cruise at 8:30am. Sharp. As we are entering the circuit through a priority gate, to have a smooth, no hold ups entry, it’s important that the cruise pretty much arrives together. You will receive a map of the track with the gate location in your information pack. We expect the cruise to the circuit to take about 1 hour from Tooradin. See Driving Directions below

Entry Form and Costs

We have been advised by the VHRR, that we'll be able to again offer our Cruise entrants with a discounted entry ticket. We'll advise the details when we have them finalized, hopefully early in 2009.

Registration

The area within the Shannons Walk allocated to our Cruise is limited in space, so it's "first in best dressed" to secure your spot along the fence. So when we have the details finalized, we'll have a downloadable registration form you can use to secure your entry prior to the day.

So for now…..

Put the cruise to Phillip Island Classic Historic Races on your list of 'must do' events in 2009. Check back in to this web site see how our plans for 2009 develop as we wrap up the details.

Date

Saturday 7th March 2008

Who to contact

Alan Newton
Let's Go Cruisin

About the Shannons Phillip Island Classic

HISTORIC Racing is one of Australia's, if not the world's, best kept secrets. But only to the press, as those 'in the know' attend these historic race meetings in ever increasing droves. Historic racing is in fact the fastest growing form of motor sport in the world. Anyone who has been to The Phillip Island Classic, Tattersall's Sandown or Historic Winton will recognise the popularity of these events. Literally thousands of fans & enthusiasts take the opportunity to attend all these events, many more than almost any other form of circuit racing (except V8 Supercars & the AGP). Entry levels are always extremely high, with many 'Captains of Industry' among the competitors.

This internationally popular and highly prestigious race meeting draws competitors and their rare and unique cars from across Australasia, Europe and America. There are classes for
Historic Touring cars, where you can see cars which competed against the like of Brock, Moffat and Harvey. Both large and smaller engined classes.
Sports racing cars. The colour, the sound and oh! - those bodies! No wheels wagging in the breeze for these lovelies. Always close racing in this class.
Formula Fords which surely give some of the closest racing seen in motor sport anywhere in the world, and where even today it is the stepping stone class for young drivers wishing to show their driving talents.
MG class cars from one of the proudest British marques. Date back to the earliest days of motor racing, not only in Australia but overseas as well.
Regularity trials. Where some of the most enchanting cars are exercised. Though not strictly a racing class, it is most surely one of the most important and interesting of classes. Cars date back to the vintage era and forward to the mid 1970’s. These are cars, which you would not normally get to see on the racetrack. Many cars of this type could only be seen in museums. This is probably one of the proudest classes of all, though it takes nothing away from any other historic racing class. Usually boasting the highest number of entrants, it is a rare sight where the enthusiasts can trace, in visual terms, the history of motor racing.