The weather was perfect for a Sunday afternoon car show.

Thanks to Scott for this great video. No one does burnouts like us Aussies!

Held at the picturesque Phillip Island over the past weekend.

I recently had the opportunity to work with Jim Richards for a Drive Experience day at Sandown Raceway. Punters were able to get a few laps in with Jim and his Porsche GT3 cup car.

Variety Club Ambassador Sue Stanley was also along for the day. They don’t call JR ‘Gentleman Jim’ for nothing. It’s not the first time I’ve been asked to do this and hopefully not the last.

Marc Cini’s new GT3 RS light weight carbon Porsche, wow what a machine. It was Marc’s frist time behind the wheel of this car and it was immediately recording 1:13’s on some shakedown laps.

Well there weren’t too many Maserati’s on display. It was more of a GT-R and EVO show. I went a long as a mate was racing his R32 GT-R. The car runs full electronic adjustable Tein suspension, HKS 25/30 turbos and a Haltech computer making around 450hp to the tyres.

Things were going well with the car lapping near the top of the ladder in the 1:21s until a mechanical issue forced an early exit. Unfortunately if you want to go fast you have to be prepared to break things.

The quickest GT-R on the day was this R33 lapping in the 1:18s.

More and more current model R35’s are attending track days.

This Ford owner had a lucky escape walking away uninjured after getting loose coming onto the front straight and sliding into the tyre barrier. Lucky for him he’d just had a roll cage installed the day before.

Added this photo just because I have a thing for the Lotus brand.

Big congrats to ‘Aussie’ Mark Webber as the media love to call him for winning in German F1 GP last night. I think many petrol heads would have tuned in for the race in which he qualifed first and survived an early scare having to perform a drive through penalty.

The top ten results are as follows:

1 Mark Webber 14 Red Bull-Renault: 1:36:43.310 10
2 Sebastian Vettel 15 Red Bull-Renault: 1:36:52.562 8
3 Felipe Massa 3 Ferrari: 1:36:59.216 6
4 Nico Rosberg 16 Williams-Toyota: 1:37:04.409 5
5 Jenson Button 22 Brawn-Mercedes: 1:37:06.919 4
6 Rubens Barrichello 23 Brawn-Mercedes: 1:37:07.798 3
7 Fernando Alonso 7 Renault: 1:37:08.166 2
8 Heikki Kovalainen 2 McLaren-Mercedes: 1:37:41.402 1
9 Timo Glock 10 Toyota: 1:37:44.710 0
10 Nick Heidfeld 6 BMW Sauber: 1:37:45.210 0

Here’s a few of my preferred photos from the day.

Sorry for the lack of updates recently!

Here’s a few of my favourite pics from the day.

The Toyota club was on hand with many Supra’s out racing.

This silver one was the quickest on the day att 9.29 @ 131mph, it was also the first time out racing.

A few quick VL’s were out. Hus’ white one went 10.07 @ 138mph

Trav’s red wagon was just as fast at 10.05 @ 139mph

Mar 15th,

You’ve gotta love the sound of a turbocharged V8 on full noise. These two were making a good job of destroying their tyres in the water box.

9.25/152

9.91/147

Mar 14th,

I don’t go to so many burnout events but went a long to this one due to work commitments.

I’ve never seen so much mud in my life. I’m surpised Avalon Raceway don’t have more gravel pathways to combat this.

Once the skies cleared it was all action.

Mar 13th,

The 2009 Phillip Island Classic Festival of Motorsport was held last week under gloomy conditions. Friday allowed competitors to get a feel for the track and luckily the weather turned out to be great. The event attracted a record entrant list of over 560 competitors.

I thought this was really cool, I heard someone say the engine only revs to 1200rpm.

This car looked to be a fair handful when boost came on.

I love watching the old Group A cars in action. Unlike the current V8 Supercars these machines are a lot closer to a road going vehicle and have no aerodynamics comapred to the current era.

E30 BMW M3′s rock. The baby faced assasin Glenn Seaton was driving one (not this one pictured). His lap times were reflecting 1:44s

Mar 1st,

Not as big as last years event, this event is at the great location of Flemminton Racecourse.

Got flares?

This HQ was different. Interior was a snakeskin theme

I really liked this Torana.

Possibly the neatest HK I’ve ever seen! No photo could ever do it justice.

Feb 27th,

Unlike previous years, the theme for this years show was obvious. Green, hybrid and ECO-firendly were words used flat out by Manufacturer CEO’s.

The Fund Raiser 1 LS1 concept is a great concept – Educating young people about the auto industry and raising money for charity. I wrote a brief piece on this car for Street Machine Magazine.

BMW showed off the cool montage to the M1.