Expressions of Interest

26 April 2010 (For Immediate Release)

The Warwick District Sporting Car Club is inviting Expressions of interest for a number of race events upcoming this year.

More info on the events can be seen by Clicking here.

Awesome Extensions Trialled

20 April 2010 (For Immediate Release)

The new track extensions at Queensland’s Morgan Park Raceway are almost ready for racing upon.  Last weekend the Warwick District Sporting Car Club invited the Super Sprint A series competitors the opportunity to drive the new extension, more than half the competitors for the weekend went for a spin, albeit at 60km/hr behind a pace car.

“We saw this weekend’s event as a great chance to show off our extensions and build just a little more anticipation for the drivers” said Bill Campbell the club president.  The additional 900 metres brings the long circuit up to 3.0kms.  Now after exiting the existing circuit in the aptly named “flip flops” for their sharp right left right combination the new circuit continues straight with a high speed right hand corner than becomes a shaper right turn.  The track then climbs the hill for a fast right left kink that bring it back in line with the existing front straight – now making it longer which will make turns one and two even more interesting than they are now!

With the additional speed into turn one the run off and tyre wall have been moved back, making the area almost 50% bigger than it previously was.

Last week V8 Supercar driver Craig Lowndes was visiting the circuit and Mr Campbell took him for a spin around the extensions, “Craig was very impressed with what we have come up with, in fact his comment was - Awesome.” said Campbell.

“All that is left is finishing the outside tyre walls, some ground work and painting the white lines, once that’s been completed then it’s up to CAMS to complete the new track license.” noted Campbell.

More info on the extensions will be uploaded here soon.  Click here to see the latest images.

Morgan Park Raceway Track Extensions Begin

1 January 2010 (For Immediate Release)

The Warwick District Sporting Car Club is proud to announce that the expected extension of the Morgan Park circuit got underway on December 31 2009, and in just 3 short days the new extensions have already be mostly cut and are now being shaped.

More info on the extensions will be uploaded here soon.  Click here to see the latest images.

2010 Calendar Released

28 November 2009 (For Immediate Release)

The Morgan Park Raceway 2010 initial Calendar has been release today, to check it out click the Calendar link above.  As new events come to hand they will be added to the calendar.

Shannons Nationals to Debut at Morgan Park

7 July 2009 (For Immediate Release)

The Shannons National Motor Racing Championships will make its inaugural visit to Queensland’s Morgan Park Raceway on 8-9 August, for Round Seven of the 2009 season. 

Seven categories will be in action, as drivers from around the country converge on Warwick for Morgan Park’s first-ever national level race meeting.  Sports Cars, production cars, touring cars and karts will be on the bill for a big weekend or racing. 

Aussie V8s will take on rally-bred Mitsubishi Lancers and Subaru WRXs and everything through to hatch backs in the Australian Manufacturers Championship for Production Cars. Up to 10 different manufacturers will be represented in a diverse group of cars for the third round of the 2009 season, with the class modelled on the growing Bathurst 12 Hour Endurance Race. 

The racing is always exciting, with the different traits of each car coming to the fore in the ultimate showroom showdown.   A pack of Porsches will hit the track in the second-year Porsche GT3 Cup Challenge.   Over 20 of Germany’s finest are expected at Morgan Park, with a mix of GT3 Cup Cars and older model Porsches.  

Queensland drivers including Matt Kingsley, Terry Knight and Jeff Bobik will be out to use home track knowledge to their advantage in the penultimate round of the GT3 Cup Challenge season.   The Kumho Tyres Saloon Car National Series turns on some of the best Ford vs. Holden racing in Australia.

Closely-matched V6 Falcons and Commodores slug it out, with a strong contingent of local aces keen to show their hand. A bumper field of sports cars from around Australia will battle it out in the CUE Production Sports Car 1 Hour Endurance race.  Big V8 engines, lightweight chassis’ and massive racing tyres make Sports Sedans thundering racing machines.   

The current outright lap record holders at Morgan Park, Superkarts provide exhilarating performance from a tiny package. Among the success stories of Queensland motorsport, the entertaining Gemini class will complete the big program. 

There’ll be on-track action all day Saturday and Sunday across the 8-9 August weekend.  Tickets are just $15 on Sunday and $30 on Sunday, or $45 for the weekend, while kids under 14 are free all weekend.  

For more information about the 2009 Shannons Nationals Motor Racing Championships, visit www.thenationals.com.au.

ENDS

Muscle Car Challenge 08 - CANCELLED

29 May 2008 (For Immediate Release)

The WDSCC have today cancelled the QLD Muscle Car Challenge due to insufficient entries, "its with regret we have had to do this" said Bill Campbell the WDSCC President. 

ENDS

Expressions of Interest - Muscle Car Challenge 08

16 March 2008 (For Immediate Release)

The WDSCC have today begun enlisting competitors whom maybe interested in the forthcoming Muscle Car Challenge set to do battle on the Morgan Park Long circuit Sat 7th & Sun 8th June 2008.

Any interested parties can express their interest, right here.

ENDS

Racing Resumes after Horse Flu Ban

4 September 2007 (For Immediate Release)

All track activities have resumed at Morgan Park Raceway, the WDSCC has been informed that racing can now go ahead and that the Equine Influenza ban that cancelled last weekends Super Sprint races was lifted today (Tuesday)

The club was worried about events planned for the next few weeks but with the ban lifted racing will resume as normal.

This weekends motorbike meeting will go ahead as planned, and the Improved Production & Formula Vee Nationals are well and truly back on track.  Big fields are expected for the Nationals with so many Improved Production entrants the field will be split into two groups.  The formula Vee's are expecting to fill the grid with 32 cars.

ENDS

Racing at Morgan Park Raceway Suspended due to Horse Flu

30 August 2007 (For Immediate Release)

All racing has been suspended at Morgan Park until further notice due to the outbreak of the Equine Influenza at the adjacent Morgan Park Polo Grounds.  This afternoon the police informed Bill Campbell WDSCC President that this weekends Super Sprint race meeting could not take place.  "We are unsure just how long the this will last, we had heard that nothing can happen here until 30 days after the last horse gets sick" said Campbell.

Mr Campbell was read a statement by the Police from the DPI (Department of Primary Industries) regarding the quarantine within the Morgan Park precinct.

September is Morgan Parks busiest month this year with Super Sprints A&B and the QLD Super Sprints Championships along with a Bike Meeting.  The halt in racing may put the National Formula Vee and Improved Production meeting in jeopardy.

The WDSCC will seek further advice regarding the lock down from the DPI and the local Police.  Further information when it comes to hand will be posted on this web site.

ENDS

2007 State Championship Race Meeting -

Meeting 3

Saturday & Sunday, June 30 and July 1 2007

Drivers and teams are invited to go to our Upcoming page where you can download or print the OFFICIAL ENTRY FORMS for this meeting.

See more here

"Choice" Magazine Use Morgan Park

for Tyre testing

At the end of April and in to May Choice Magazine booked out the circuit for private testing of 18 brands of road tyres, in both wet and dry conditions.  The two weeks of testing saw the different tyres tested for braking and cornering abilities.

To read the article. click here for a PDF scanned from the Warwick Daily News.

Choice have said the results from testing will be published in their August issue or on line at Choice from June.

More Track Upgrades

Early this month (May 07) more work was carried out on the track, more specifically turn 3 under the bridge, the cutting was cut back even further to the fence line on the right just past the bridge.

And the Armco on the main straight has been completed.

This was required for the upgraded track license.

To see the workers in action, click here for a gallery of images from TC.

QLD Super Sprint State Championship

22/23 September 2007

* Combination of 2.11km and 1.2km circuits

* Open to log booked and non log booked cars

* Limited Spaces Available

Expressions of Interest - Fax 07 4661 4388

** Major Circuit Upgrades - Click here to see images**

In December 2006 the track was totally resurfaced in what is a $600,000 upgrade of facilities at Morgan Park Raceway.  This includes a 2.5m wide, 20m long hot mix surface directly behind the exit kerbs at turns 2, 3, 6 and 7. 

This extended surface is not an extension of the race surface but an attempt to control the quality of the area behind the kerbs. The paddock area now has hot mix roads, and the Parc Ferme area extended and sealed. 

Power poles have been installed throughout the paddock area to allow the convenience of electricity to competitors.  In early May the front straight will have an Armco wall replacing the existing concrete for its entire length, this will include a 20m long designated signalling area.  Tyre barriers and gravel traps have also been extended.

The Track Licence has been upgraded accordingly, the only events we cannot run now are V8 Supercars and Truck racing.

Ends

Round Two of the Queensland State Championship was held at Morgan Park 31 March -1 April and was all about keeping the cars on the track.  Morgan Park Organisers were coming down hard on competitors that were intentionally curb hopping or leaving the circuit. 

It was reported in AutoAction (No 1234 04-10 April Edition) that the organisers threatened drivers.  Was this really the case?  On display at the scrutineering shed were Digital Realism’s images shot from Round 1 of the State Championship showing a number of drivers “short-circuiting” the track.  Along side of this was a plank with nails showing.  Mr Bill Campbell President of the circuit said “there was absolutely nothing buried around the circuit – that would be plain stupid!”

Drivers have been warned repeatedly about verge hopping, the last CAMS magazine highlighted this.  Campbell noted that “the main culprits being cars with Radial Tyres like Gemini, HQ, Historic”, “In some cases the ground is ripped to 100mm depth, then for instance a single seater may hit it with a ground clearance of 40mm - then there’s trouble”.

Mr Campbell has asked the CAMS event officialdom to be tougher on drivers who repeatedly flaunt this rule, he noted one instance over the weekend where a driver was warned 3 times and still no penalty.  “We are after a zero tolerance rule”.

Morgan Park have extended the hotmix two and have metres beyond the ripple strip on turns 2 and 7 to prevent the ground breaking up, this will be extended to turns 3 & 6.  “Anyone going beyond the ripple strip will have times that will reflect their running wide” said Campbell. “We did notice that there were less off track excursions this weekend, but still to many”.

Ends

Over the weekend Anthony LeMesurier cleaned up the field in the Formula Fords ahead of Trent Usher, whilst Shane Hart dominated the Vee’s fighting off Grant Broomley and Tim Hamilton.

Grant Watson (Prosport Mulsanne) blew the field away in the Sports Cars lapping almost all the field in all 3 races.  Colin Smith and Robert McLoughlin shared the spoils in the Sports Sedans.  Gary Bonwick led the pack for 2 of the 3 HQ races with Shane Hunt and Leigh Ralph on his tail.

David Waldon and Graeme Wilkinson were 1-2 respectively for all 3 Improved Production races.  Kevin Heffernan was unstoppable winning the 3 Historic Touring Car Group N events.

The Gemini’s roused the crowd with close action racing, Benn Wilson again on top of the podium chased (literally) by Daniel Bowden and the rest of the pack.

Ends