2024

All the Motorsport racing from the Historic Touring Cars with stories, reviews and photos from around Australia

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What a finish!

Now one of Australia’s premier historic touring racing events, the JUST CARS 50km Cup Enduro not only brought its closest finish but a David and Goliath ending. After a week’s predictions of wet weather, the Victorian Historic Racing Register’s Winton Festival of Speed brought glorious sunshine and some mighty racing.

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Hooray for Historic Winton

Brilliant sunshine and brilliant racing all weekend – well worth the trip to the Northern Victorian circuit for the 47th edition of one of the world’s oldest historic race meetings. A special one-off Cortina-only race celebrating 60 years of Australian race wins would be held for the first time, attracting a very healthy 15 entries of the ever-popular small Ford.

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Magic Mallala All Historic

No fewer than a dozen JUST CARS Historic Touring competitors made the trek across the border to descend on Mallala Motorsport Park, north of Adelaide. Numerous FaceBook posts and general cajoling from teams that had journeyed over last year had rounded up a great grid. With two practice sessions, qualy and five races it was a busy schedule on a very busy track!

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Hottest ever classic

Hot fields and hotter weather ensured the 2024 Phillip Island Classic Festival of Motorsport, the biggest historic race meeting in the southern hemisphere, would be one to remember. While the recent resurfacing promised a potential fall in lap records the brutal (and very rare) hot northerly wind would have something to say about that. The JUST CARS racers would also be having rolling starts for the first time…

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Hottest ever classic

Hot fields and hotter weather ensured the 2024 Phillip Island Classic Festival of Motorsport, the biggest historic race meeting in the southern hemisphere, would be one to remember. While the recent resurfacing promised a potential fall in lap records the brutal (and very rare) hot northerly wind would have something to say about that. The JUST CARS racers would also be having rolling starts for the first time…

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Kicking off at Sandown

Although historic tourers fielded 15 cars for Round 1 of the VSCRC, Feb 17/18, they were lumped in with the HQs in a 26 car field. Six Camaros, four Mustangs and a lone Falcon GTHO made the contingent power heavy, with three Cortinas and a Mini ready for a four-way four-cylinder fight. Many racers were saving themselves and cars for the Island Classic just three weeks away…

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