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Cruise to the
Phillip Island ‘Classic’ Historic Race Meeting 2011
Date To Be Advised
The Phillip Island Classic just gets bigger every year, attracting many overseas historic racing enthusiasts who bring some famous & exotic cars to race at this event. With the last two years event hosting more than 500 historic race cars from the 1920’ to 1985, the fields in 2010 included the largest grid of F5000’s ever assembled in Australia. Muscle car and fans of 60’s touring cars also relived the classic sounds of V8’s at full noise as these great cars race flat out.
One of the great advantages of attending Historic Racing is that you’re free to walk around the cars in the pit garages and chat to the owners and drivers.
We recommend this is one of the best motorsport events held in Australia and we kick it off with a pleasant early morning cruise down to the Island. Great cars racing, rare and historic cars on display in both the EXPO building and the pits as well as trade stands, good food vendors and facilities make this an outstanding event to attend.
You can get all the latest information about this event directly from the VHRR web site at www.vhrr.com/phillip_island.htm
Check out our cruises to the Phillip Island Historic Race meeting in 2006, 2007 and 2008, 2009 and 2010.
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Our Saturday Cruise
With the support of the organizers, the Victorian Historic Racing Register and the major event sponsor Shannons, we are planning on hosting a cruise the Classic on the Saturday. In previous years we’ve been able to able to offer pre registered entrants, discounted entry tickets, reserved parking trackside adjacent the EXPO building and the access bridge to the pits. We’ll be working with the organizers to provide similar benefits for the 2011 event.
When is it on?
The race meeting is usually held over the weekend before the Australian Grand Prix each year. Therefore, the date has yet to be locked in, but details will be posted as soon as we can finalize them.
In the meantime, if you haven’t been to this event yet, talk to someone who has and you’ll soon be enjoying it along with us.
Registration
Details on registering, entry costs and cruise details, will be available later in the year when the events date and costs to us are finalized.
Cruise Captain - Graeme Hutson
Car '59 Cadillac |
Cruise Start Point: Registered entrants cruisin’ in our favourite cars collect their tickets from us at the service road in Tooradin on the South Gippsland Highway from 8am. Grab a coffee or some breakfast then be ready to depart at 9am. If you need to request alternate arrangements to collect your tickets please let us know on your entry form.
Cruise Departure Time: Cruise leaves for the PI track at 9:00am. After collecting your tickets, grab a coffee or breakfast from one of the cafes/bakery and be ready to depart at 9:00.
Cruise route: Easy cruise down the Sth Gippsland Hwy, turning off to Phillip Island. Follow signs to the Grand Prix track. Cruise takes about 1 hour. Look for a LGC member at the main entry gate with directions into the race track & parking area. |
Who to contact
cruisinletsgo@hotmail.com
Let's Go Cruisin
LGC is VicRoads approved for red plate events ( all CR, H & SR vehicles)
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.
More Information
Driving Directions from TOORADIN to PHILLIP ISLAND
Town Map
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