By ALENA HIGGINS
COMPETITORS travelled from as far as Western Australia, Tasmania and across the Tasman to get revved up for the 37th annual Queensland Historic Motor Race Meeting at Morgan Park last weekend.
More than 3000 spectators gathered to watch 240 competitors go head-to-head during the three-day event at the Warwick track.
Up-and-coming motor racing star and local man Matt Campbell won the HRCC trophy for racing cars, driving an ASP330 owned by Frank Marshall.
Other winners on the day included former Bathurst champion Bob Holden in the historic touring cars handicapped division. The veteran racing driver, reportedly in his eighties, took out the race in his Toyota Corolla GT.
It is the eighth year the event has been held at Morgan Park and organisers have described crowds at the meet as some of the best ever seen.
“We had great weather and a pretty good drawcard in that we had about 20 ex-Bathurst cars at the track … from the ’70s through to the ’90s, race committee chairman John Tupicoff said.
He said the event was hugely popular with motoring enthusiasts because they could get up close and personal with a huge variety of original cars.
“You can walk around the pits and Australia’s motoring history is just sitting there,” Mr Tupicoff said.
“There are cars there that date back as far as 1927.”
