The 2010
Phillip Island Classic
March 19th 20th & 21st
2010
Urgent* Please check, or
book your accommodation immediately as this event clashes with a large
RACV rally on the same weekend.
Tourist information at Phillip Island - 1300 366 422
NEW!!! Phillip
Island Race Programme
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Phillip Island
Classic Entry List
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Phillip Island
Classic Event
Schedule
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Admission Prices:
2010
Friday 19th
March $20.00
Saturday 20th March $25.00
Gates Open 7.00am
Sunday 21st
March $35.00
Gates Open 7.00am
Two day pass $50.00
Three day pass $60.00
Children under 16 Free
Programme $5.00
Full Catering
Fangio’s Alfa finally on track for
Phillip Island
The world’s most admired Alfa Romeo – the spectacular
Alfetta Tipo 159 that took the great Juan Manuel Fangio to the first of
his five World Championships in 1951 – will fire up just in time for
next weekend’s Phillip Island Classic Festival of Motor Sport (March
20-21) after a last-minute lifeline from the company’s museum in Italy.
Hopes of seeing and hearing the 450HP supercharged
straight-eight cylinder Alfa in action at the ‘Island were fading after
the car’s regular museum driver, Chief Mechanic Maurizio Monti, had to
cancel his scheduled trip to Australia at short notice for personal
reasons.
So highly does Alfa’s Automobiliso
Storico museum in Arese regard the Tipo 159 that the crew of 20
transport specialists were not allowed to load the $20 million dollar
Grand Prix car onto the aircraft to Australia until Snr Monti arrived to
supervise.
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Godzilla returns to Phillip Island!
Nissan’s giant-killing Skyline GT-R32 – better known to its fans and
foes as ‘Godzilla’ – will be back on track at this weekend’s Phillip
Island Classic Festival of Motor Sport to renew its battle for touring
car supremacy, nearly 20 years on.
Two of the fearsome 2.6 litre turbocharged four wheel drive touring cars
that swept all before them in the 1990-1992 seasons will take on the
cream of their Ford Sierra, Holden Commodore, BMW M3 and Jaguar XJS
Group A and Group C rivals in a series of races for the pre-V8 Supercar
touring cars.
NSW’s Terry Ashwood and Rod Markland have entered a brace of the
notorious Nissans under their Nissan Heritage Motorsport banner, while
Rod’s brother Craig is down to drive an earlier four-cylinder Nissan
DR30.
In the hands of Mark Skaife and Jim Richards, the Skyline GT-R32 was
unbeatable at Bathurst in 1991 and 1992, taking a controversial victory
over the Dick Johnson Ford Sierra in the rain and accident-shortened ’92
race.
Sports car enthusiasts are also spoilt for choice at Phillip Island with
nearly 100 production sports cars filling the grids for eight races at
the meeting. The most exciting racing is likely to be for the Group Sc
cars built from 1970-‘77, where Alfa Romeos, Porsche 911s, De Tomaso
Panteras, Datsun 240/260Zs, Corvette Stingrays and two Shelby Cobras and
two Ferraris will compete.
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Legends line up for Phillip
Island Classic Festival of Motorsport
Australian motor racing legends headed by
triple World Champion Sir Jack Brabham are turning out in force to
celebrate Australia’s greatest classic motorsport festival at Phillip
Island over the March 19-21 weekend.
Multiple Australian open wheeler, sports car, touring car, sports sedan
and rally champions, plus Bathurst and Armstrong 500 winners will line
up to meet fans and sign autographs at the Shannons Super Rig in the
Paddock area during the three-day meeting.
This year’s ‘Classic’ has attracted the largest-ever entry for an
Australian circuit racing event – an incredible 584 cars spanning seven
decades.
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Huge entry confirmed for 2010 Phillip
Island Festival of Motor Sport
A confirmed entry of over 500 competing vehicles for the third
consecutive year has cemented the VHRR’s Phillip Islands Classic
Festival of Motor Sport as one of the world’s great classic motorsport
meetings.
The 48-event weekend programme includes capacity fields in most
categories, headed by races for Group Sa, Sb and Sc Production Sports
Cars that account for nearly 100 entries alone.
Faced with long reserve lists for the popular Group S category at recent
Phillip Island Classic meetings, the Victorian Historic Racing Register
this year decided to create separate races for the more modern Sc cars
built between 1970 and 1977, such as Alfa Romeos, Datsuns, Panteras and
Porsches. They were rewarded instantly with a full grid of 50 cars.
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Alfa’s immortal 158 racer coming to Phillip Island
Alfa Romeo’s all conquering 158 Alfetta that totally dominated the
inaugural F1 World Championship season 60 years ago in 1950, is heading
to the Phillip Island Classic Festival of Motor Sport from 19-21 March
to kick-start the Italian manufacturer’s 100th anniversary celebrations
in Australia.
Usually housed in the Alfa Romeo museum in Arese, Italy the 158 Alfetta
seldom ventures far from home these days and the 2010 trip to Australia
will be only the second time this car has been in the southern
hemisphere; the previous occasion being in 1990 when Adelaide was the
host venue for Formula 1’s 500th Grand Prix.
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21st Anniversary Phillip Island Classic
Festival of Motor Sport
The largest
classic motorsport meeting in the Southern Hemisphere this year
celebrating 100 years of Alfa Romeo, with over 30 events for vehicles
from the 1930s to 1990s. Up to 100 Alfa Romeos, including famous racing
Alfas from Australia and overseas will be joined at the Italian-flavoured
meeting by many well-known former Alfa drivers, including event patron
Kevin Bartlett.
The entry of up to 500 touring, sports and racing cars will also include
a record number of Formula 5000 racing cars. The 50th anniversaries of
the Armstrong 500 – the progenitor of the Bathurst 1000 – and the
Australian Touring Car Championship, will both be marked with displays
and parades of historic touring cars and drivers over the years,
including a special track appearance by the Bathurst-winning four wheel
drive Nissan GT-R 'Godzilla'.
The 2010 Phillip Island Classic Festival of Motor Sport is supported by
Shannons, CoolDrive, Penrite and the VACC and will be conducted by the
Victorian Historic Racing Register.
Alfa’s century
celebrated at Phillip Island Classic
The Centenary of Alfa Romeo will be
celebrated con brio at the 21st Anniversary Phillip Island Classic
Festival of Motor Sport from 19-21 March 2010, with more than 100
examples of the feisty Italian marque taking to the Grand Prix
circuit for a variety of events.
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For more information visit
www.vhrr.com,
www.phillipislandcircuit.com.au or call (03) 9744 1807
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The Porsche Collection 2007
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*Souvenir pages from the 2007 Race Programme
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the latest photos from the 2009 event and
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The
Phillip Island Circuit
The Phillip Island circuit is situated in a spectacular
coastal location approximately 130km south of Melbourne city. The drive, once you get on to the South
Eastern freeway, takes approximately 1 hour 45 minutes. The
Phillip Island circuit contains an excellent mixture of fast and tight sections over
undulating countryside. Large sections of the track can be viewed
from virtually all spectator areas. Click
here to go to the Phillip Island Circuit website.
Information
for Visitors to Melbourne
If you will be visiting Melbourne for the Phillip Island
International Challenge, link to Visitors to Melbourne page for useful information
and links about the City of Melbourne and it's surroundings.
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