Leyburn Sprints 18th & 19th August 2018 – Results.
The 23rd annual Leyburn Sprints, had a field of 210 drivers, a diverse line-up of classic, historic and performance cars ranging in vintage from 1925 to 2018. More than 150 cars also entered the Shannons Show ‘n’ Shine, this year also had the Retro Caravan Show Off this drew, big interest from spectators.
New South Wales driver Dean Amos broke the track record Amos, put his 2006 Gould GR55B V8 open-wheeler around the houses in a new record time of 40.15 seconds second outright was north Queensland drive Michael Von-Rapard in his Dallara F392 and third outright was Queenslander Steven Woodbridge in his 1996 Dallara F396.
Photo by Peter Trapnell – from Trapnell Creation’s
A huge crowd gathered on both Saturday and Sunday to see more than 210 historic, classic and performance cars contest the time trials also 150 cars in a Shannons Shine n’ Shine along with 25 vintage caravans. The weather was perfect and the crowd was enormous.
Proceeds from the Historic Sprints weekend are used to benefit local community groups and surrounding districts.
There were 5 rotary powered cars in 3 different Classes running at this year’s event.
Running in Historic Touring Cars – Group Nc 2001cc – 5000cc (Log Book) Class
Matthew Clift (R100)
Stephen Gander (RX2)
Matthew Clift in his Mazda R100 did very well over the weekend, Matthew’s best time was on his last run on Sunday with a time of 50.97 sec. he did well to finish 1st in this Class and 21st outright.
Stephen Gander in his Mazda RX2 only ran the first 3 runs on Saturday. Stephen’s best time was on his 2nd run on Saturday with a time of 55.22 sec, he finish 5th in this Class and 61st outright.
Running in Touring Cars (Pre – 1980) Over 2000cc Class
Paul Spiteri (RX3)
Paul in his Mazda RX3 went well over the weekend, this rotor sounded fantastic, Paul’s best time was also on his last run on Sunday with a time of 55.26 sec, he finish 2nd in this Class and 63rd outright.
Running in Racing Cars – Formula Libre (Log Book) Class was Daniel Duffield (RPV01-B) and Warwick Hutchinson (RPV03 OMS28)
Daniel Duffield was driving his Dad’s Turbo 13B Rotary open wheeler (RPV01-B) it was good to see this car back at the Leyburn Sprints again. This was the first official event for Daniel driving the open wheeler and he drove the car very well. He finished all of the 5 runs with no issues, until the start of the 6th run when the drive shaft broke at the start line. This resulted on no more runs for Daniel, but with the improvements he showed over the 5 runs I am sure that Daniel would have got even faster on the last 2 runs, but that is motor racing as they say. Daniel best time was on his 5th run on Sunday with a time of 50.30 sec, he finish 7th in this Class and 18th outright this was an excellent result for such a young driver, lookout for Daniel next year.
Warwick Hutchinson driving his new Rotary open wheeler (RPV03 OMS28) Warwick’s fastest time was on the 6th run with a time of 45.07 sec. he finished 4th in this Class and 4th outright.
Rotary Turbo Leyburn Sprints Photo by Trapnell Creationss
The Top 6 Outright times and the Cars for the weekend were –
Fastest times outright:
1st Dean Amos (Gould GR55B) 40.15 sec. (New Track Record)
2nd Michael Van Rappard (Dallara F392) 42.26
3rd Steven Woodbridge (Dallara F399) 44.70
4th Warwick Hutchinson (RPV03-OMS28) 45.07
5th Neal Lewis (Fly-1) 45.19
6th Edward McCane (DJ Fire Hawk) 46.69
Once again the organizers of this event should be congratulated as again this event was another great success and we are now looking forward to running in the next year’s event.
The Photos for this entry were taken & supplied by Peter Trapnell and his team form Trapnell Creations, thanks Peter as always fantastic Photos.
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The next hillclimb event that the rotary Hillclimb racing car will be running is the Noosa Summer Hillclimb on the 10th & 11th November.
