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Historic Racing Cars, Winton
Winton is about 2.5 hours north of Melbourne on the Hume freeway.
Highlights of the day of historic racing cars (7-8/11/1998) included
Sir Jack Brabham in the Repco-Brabham Formula One (F1) car,
Peter Brock really trying in a Holden Torana,
two rare Porsches out of the Porsche museum and here for the company's
50th anniversary celebrations,
and many classic cars such as a lovely 1969 Renault Alpine.
Sir Jack Brabham prepares to take
the Repco-Brabham that won him a Formula One world championship
for a run at Winton's day of historic racing cars.
While not quite as ear-shattering as the F5000 cars,
the 3-litre V8 makes plenty of noise.
The engine is a single overhead cam-shaft (per bank) V8 design
and shares a common ancestry with the (push-rod)
Rover V8.
A DOHC version was raced in F1 in 1968,
and a 4.2L version at Indianapolis that year
- 4wd.sofcom.com/4WD.html
Right:
1988 Mitsubishi GTO 4x4 was driven with some verve.
Left: 1989 Nissan
Skyline
4WD is a road-going relative of `Godzilla'
the Bathurst winner.
Right: Subaru
Impreza
isn't particularly historic,
but it's nice anyway.
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