Widescreen Gallery: The HSRCA’s 2019 Autumn Festival

Images thanks to Seth Reinhardt, HSRCA

Our friends in the Historic Sports and Racing Car Association of NSW kicked off New South Wales’ historic motorsport season over the 30th & 31st of March with the Autumn Festival at Wakefield Park, and we tagged along to catch some of the action.

The three-day event attracted a diverse collection of race, sports and touring cars for both race and speed events. The field included some very storied machinery going all the way back to two very different 1954 cars – a six-litre Holden FJ special and an ‘Outlaw’ Porsche 356 Pre-A that ran in Group S.

We enjoyed seeing the iconic L, M & O sports and racing cars on the track as well as the Formula Fords and Vees, caught up with some interesting Aussie specials and loved watching the packed fields of Group S and Group N sports and touring cars going door handle-to-door handle in their events.

Goulburn, the picturesque countryside city where Wakefield Park is situated, can be a meteorologically cantankerous place if the mood strikes it, and it certainly flexed those muscles over the weekend.

The first drivers to go out on Saturday went out either in the rain or on a freshly rained-on track, which led to some interesting moments in qualifying and certainly shuffled the orders up in an interesting way. This gave us some exciting races as the weather slowly improved and the track dried out over the course of the weekend.

The weather did mean that people were more likely to duck into the garages and pits to warm up or hide from the rain, especially when Sunday brought a particularly chilly morning, but the atmosphere was still warm and friendly, and there was plenty to explore.

Thanks to the HSRCA and the many volunteers who support them for putting on a great weekend of motorsport!

The club will turn the heat up a little over June 8-9, when they return to the city for the HSRCA Sydney Classic at Sydney Motorsport Park. This event will host the opening round of Historic Formula Ford Australia’s Driver to Europe Series, and welcome the mighty MGs of MG Racing Australia as a feature event.

Entry is open now, and you can find all the details on their website.

Images thanks to Seth Reinhardt, HSRCA. For more from the Autumn Festival, see the club’s wrap-up here.