Phillip Island Photos - Shannons Classic '07

[Dug]

Hey All,

Thought i'd post a few pic's that I took at the recent Shannons Tattersalls Historic racing at Phillip Island. Great race meeting, with some pretty awesome cars.

This year had a full field, including cars from the early part of the centrury, right up to late 80's touring cars. The Formula 5000's were something else to hear entirely!

If anyone else went, make sure you post your thoughts.

Photo's are either taken from the Paddock, the top of the control tower, or the HayShed corner looking down towards turn 6 and siberia, whilst sitting in my recovery vehicle.

One thing to note - each of the car's photographed are the real deal. The regulations on the race series specify that replica's are not allowed, and each have to be authenticated as a true genuine race car.

The Porsche photographed was on load from the Porsche museum in Germany, and is a dual LeMans 24hour winner - to my knowledge, the only car to have won the race twice.

Apologies for the crappy quality on some of the photo's - they were taken on my phone.

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Genuine Ferrari F1 car - 1985 i believe.

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Win Percy / Neil Crompton Car. Got rear ended on sunday having stalled on the grid.

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Entering Pit Lane as the Formula 5000's departed dummy grid.

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Main Straight - View from race control.

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Lukey Heights from the control tower.

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Jackie Stewart's Tyrrell Formula 1 car.

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[swingtan]

Very nice pictures there. I especially like the one of Jackie Stewart's Tyrrell Formula 1 car. Did they put it in the kitty litter just for you ?

[shep]

Very nice pictures there. I especially like the one of Jackie Stewart's Tyrrell Formula 1 car. Did they put it in the kitty litter just for you ?

Of course they did you don't have to embarrass him by asking.

[VXSS346]

I think some of the cars from that event are on display at Albert Park this weekend. Saw them today and took a few pics.

Great shots mate, and top view from the control tower.

[Jargle]

great shots from the tower and even better considering they were from your phone.

[HSV,_I_GOT_ONE]

Serious, Serious dollars there. Will this be televised at all on any channels?

[Dug]

I'm not sure. Definately not on any of the major networks, but there were a few people there shooting interviews etc... Possibly a speedweek type thing? but i've never seen it on the box.

[VXSS346]

Channel 31 maybe???

[Phantom]

Channel 31 maybe???

In Pit Lane might have some stuff, but it will probably only be walking around the padock.

This has to be one of, if not the best race meeting in the country. Watching a field of 25+ F5000's done the main straight at full noise just fantastic. I'll post up some pic's on a minute.

[vy storm]

i went to this a few years ago some awesome cars there and some real classics!! its very similar to the sandown meet thats on in november.

[NQCalais]

Love that Aston Martin - that sort of sports car will never age badly... except for the handling and the brakes....

[Dug]

Love that Aston Martin - that sort of sports car will never age badly... except for the handling and the brakes....

Do a search on the DBZ - it's actually not a fair dinkum Aston factory car, but an australian kit, to suit older aston's. It's pretty clean looking.


i went to this a few years ago some awesome cars there and some real classics!! its very similar to the sandown meet thats on in november.

It's run as part of the same series. I've never been to the Sandown event, but chances are that I will this year. May be a good event to organise a tour to.

[peersy]

mm nice ferrari.... but even nicer porsche 962 in the background

[Dug]

mm nice ferrari.... but even nicer porsche 962 in the background

That porsche is the genuine lemans article. Worth a stupid amount of money. I'll check if i've got some more pic's of it.

[kayman]

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Here is one that I took!

[iloveholden]

Nice photos off ur phone. Some money floating round there. Those commos from the 80's actually look pretty good in real life dont they. I saw the VL spec on once...pretty sure thats wat it was anyway cause i was only 5 at the time haha

[hoon69]

great pics

those cars are more fun to watch i reckon.
if they showed them alot more on Ch7 i'm sure we'd all agree.

[Dug]

great pics

those cars are more fun to watch i reckon.
if they showed them alot more on Ch7 i'm sure we'd all agree.

I agree. I know that because i'm involved, it's a little biased an opinion, but to watch those 'REAL RACING CARS' race, is absolutelly magic.

That VL (The Motorola car) was an absolute work of art. Was in concourse condition when i took the photo's on saturday. Unfortunatelly it stalled on the grid on sunday and took a BIG hit up the arse.