Gallery: Legends of the Turbo Era

Submitted by Rich Fowler on October 29, 2013

Raw, flame-spitting turbocharged power of yesteryear made a return to Eastern Creek Raceway last week. Unfortunately, not all escaped unscathed.

Recently we ran a post talking about Time Attack and the use of crazy retro cars for this relatively new form of racing. A little over a week ago the largest event on the global Time Attack calender was held at Eastern Creek Raceway (Sydney), and as part of the show a selection of awesome retro race cars were brought out to play. Pixelnerd was on site to capture all the action.

This meant that there was plenty of nice hardware kicking around, both new and old.

Examples on display included some old favorites,

Some faithfully recreated replicas,

And some modern interpretations of earlier shapes, such as this 944 Turbo built by Evolution Custom for Open Class.

Of course the best part was re-aquanting ourselves with some familiar faces, like Skaife’s old HR31.

And of course, the legendary BNR32. Seeing classics like this out on track being driven in anger gave the crowd a real buzz, which was great to see.

All the race cars in the world can’t compete with a regular Ferrari F40 in terms of sheer head-turning ability. This car wields the power to bring out the boy in every grown man.