Anyone Into This Event?

[Stephen22]

The rebirth of the Queensland 500

On May 28th Queensland Raceway will have a true long-distance race available to you, the regular motorsport competitors. Entry forms will be sent by request to 07 5461 9100 and entries will close on the 11th of May with the Entrants Information Pack mail out scheduled for May 17th. A copy of the entry form and this invitation will also be available on our website: www.queenslandraceway.com.au ?please tell people to ring us or get the data off the site if you discover they didn??receive this invitation directly.

What is it?

It's a very simple team race concept to give you, the entrants, the maximum possible flexibility in how you participate and enjoy this novel new event. As the name suggests it??a 500 km race which finishes when the first car completes the distance. We anticipate this will take about three hours and 30 minutes. The minimum run time for each car and driver entered is 35 minutes unless there is a certified mechanical failure (for the car), in which case the next slower car must complete the 35 minute period.

There is NO judiciary or appeal process for the results. This is a Recreational Competition FUN event so if you?搪 in the ?妯 Hard or Go Home?camp it may not be to your liking. We are not inviting overseas teams and the rules will be liberally applied by the Race Director but competitor safety will always be paramount. If you have experience with our TopGear race meetings you?彬 understand and be comfortable with the format.

What??a team & what??it cost?

General Entry will be restricted to the first 45 correct entry forms received. This may be a dangerous precedent as according to Ron Turvey this means we will have no entries...

A team has to have at least one car and up to a maximum of four cars, a minimum of two drivers and a maximum of four drivers, in this way we give you the maximum possible flexibility for assembling a team for the event. The entry fee for each team, including both the garage and pit lane accommodation, is $1250. Each team will be allocated a pit Bay and garage for their exclusive use during the event. The pit lane car ports will be lit for the occasion.

Do you have categories?

Not as such but we will bracket the teams by adding together the capacity of each car to establish the Team Capacity of the cars entered. Where there are less than four cars entered in a team we calculate the Team Capacity by adding together the capacity of all the cars entered (entered capacity) and then fudging up the Team Capacity. We do this by taking the entered capacity and multiply it by either 4 for a one car team, 2 for a two car team, or 1.33 for a three car team. This means the team rating for a one car team of a 7 litre Monaro will be 28.

Supercharged and turbo charged cars will have their capacities multiplied by 1.5 and rotaries are rated as 2.5 litres for normally aspirated and 5 litres for turbocharged. This means a team of an RX7 Series 6 and a Gemini of 1.584litres makes 6.584 multiplied by 2 to make a Team Capacity 13.168 Litres ?easy eh?

For our first event the Team Capacity brackets have been set as:

1. Less than 7 Litres

2. More than 7 Litres and less than 10 Litres

3. More than 10 Litres and less than 17 Litres

4. More than 17 Litres and less than 22 Litres

5. More than 22 Litres

Prizes & trophies will be awarded for teams that place within the Team Capacity brackets.

How does it run?

It is a Sunday only event starting with scrutineering at noon, qualifying commences at 1:30 for which each team will nominate a specific car and driver combination to qualify. There will be ten, approximately equal performance cars, in each qualifying session and the qualifying sessions will last 15 minutes each; there will be a discretionary qualifying session to finalise the qualifying period. The main race will commence at three o'clock which means we will have approximately 1 hour of racing in the dark, therefore all cars entered must have headlights that work. Specific parts of the track will have lighting and some areas will be in total darkness. All racing and qualifying will be on the National circuit.

Who is running it?

QR is the promoer and organiser. The event will be run under the AASA auspices to give QR the maximum flexibility with accepting entries for the event. This means you can enter cars with and without a CAMS log book (providing it has headlights). Cars without a CAMS logbook are required to have a full harness for the driver, clearly marked tow points and battery points and at least a half roll cage. Drivers will need to have either an AASA National licence or minimum CAMS C3.

What about Pit & Refuel stops?

Firstly, dry break refuelling systems will not be required as there will be an undercover refuelling area with a fire marshall. Every pitstop has a minimum duration of three minutes. This will minimise pit lane traffic and ensure teams with professional pit lane crews will not have an advantage over the rest of us mere mortals. Dry break refuelling systems will be required if you intend to refuel in pit lane. You are free to leave pit lane at any time you choose but if there is less than three minutes between ?r in-car out?the untaken time will be added to your overall time for the event. For safety??sake a fuel truck with premium unleaded will be used for all competitors not using a dry break system. THERE IS TO BE NO FUELLING FROM DRUMS DURING THE RACE.

Any Prize money?

As well as trophies we are actively seeking prizes for the event and we have kicked it off with Dunlop. There is a $2000 cash prize for the outright winning car if it??on Dunlop tyres. There is also $1000 for outright second and $500 for outright third place on Dunlop tyres. For each category there will be a prize of $500 against the purchase of Dunlop race tyres for the first Dunlop shod car home.

We are currently assembling other prizes for the event and these will be advised to you in the Entrants Information Pack and on the web site as they become available. We have a $500 cash prize for the all Gemini four car team that goes the greatest distance (courtesy of Rod Dawson & John Tetley). Just so you know it??not a setup, Rod Dawson is supposed to be running his V8 Supercar team at Wakefield Park that day ?we shall see!

Any TV or sponsorship opportunities?

Yes to both. Zuraya and her talented production team will cover the event for Rev Central series 3 - we expect it to be our best series yet. Did you know more people watch Briz31 than all Brisbane cable channels combined?

There are sponsorship opportunities for the event naming rights, bracket prizes, best presented team, etc. etc. Contact Keith on 5461 9104 if you see an opportunity for your business.

Best of all?

Our traditional post race sausage sizzle with tall stories will commence at 7:00pm and presentations will commence as soon as we have sorted out the results and who won what.

Just to make the point again, in keeping with the AASA recreational racing philosophy, this event is for recreational purposes so do not expect to see, or compete with, top line international teams etc. It is an opportunity for cars that currently do not race in Australia to have a serious run and it is the first of the AASA enduro events and it is followed on the next weekend by Queensland?? first AASA National event. Two weekends of making motor racing history in a row, how's that?

[predator]

So is this whole event at QR ?

500km around QR could be a bit tiresome - but its a good idea in theory.

[Col-GTSX]

WOW

Too much info at once....

I got half way through and gave up....

What are advertising it or just spotted it and thought you would share?

[AzzurrA]

if anyone needs a driver, i'm up for it

[Col-GTSX]

if anyone needs a car, i'm up for it

Yep good call...

Now we have Jasons car as our SAU QLD track car all we need is love.... i mean;

1. Fuel and lots of it

2. Tyres... Well 8 sets should be enough i reckon

3. $1250 for entry

4. $250 for pies and coke at venue

Well once we got all this we should be right....

Thanks Jas for using your car....

[AzzurrA]

lmao, no worries

only thing is, it would:

a) get left behind

b) probably die some horrible mechanical death at some stage of the 500km

c) not leave my garage

however, i offered to drive as i feel i could contribute to a team winning/getting up there in the rankings as i'm not a 'completely' crap driver

[R33S2]

Well I'm in for pit crew.

[Stephen22]

I am trying to organise for a Team of four cars....I need one more car and driver.....

I will be bringing two cars out along with my friend Honda DC5-R

Cars in it now:

R33 Gts-t (around 230kw@rims)

AE86 Tureno (154.4kw@rims)

DC5-R with 2.4 Stroke up kit (175kw@rims)

I perfer to have another Turbo car in our team instead of Three N/A and One Turbo....

So anyone in it???Plase drop me a PM or e-mail to [email protected]

[AzzurrA]

I am trying to organise for a Team of four cars....I need one more car and driver.....

I will be bringing two cars out along with my friend Honda DC5-R

Cars in it now:

R33 Gts-t (around 230kw@rims)

AE86 Tureno (154.4kw@rims)

DC5-R with 2.4 Stroke up kit (175kw@rims)

I perfer to have another Turbo car in our team instead of Three N/A and One Turbo....

So anyone in it???Plase drop me a PM or e-mail to [email protected]

Hey...

Interested in being a driver if you need one (not sure if you've already got drivers for the cars or not...)

[Stephen22]

i need another driver with a car....perfer turbo car tho

[AzzurrA]

someone clarify this as its a bit ambiguous in the text above...

how many drivers are needed per car?

from what i can glean from the text, its a minimum of 2, and a maximum of 4 drivers per car?

or is it a minimum of 2 drivers per team (of 1 car) or up to 4 drivers for a four car team?

i.e.

1 car 2 drivers

1 car 3 drivers

1 car 4 drivers

or

2 cars 2 drivers

2 cars 3 drivers

2 cars 4 drivers

or

3 cars 3 drivers

3 cars 4 drivers

or

4 cars 4 drivers

The wording of the above article is very ambiguous..... 'coz i can tell you now, that if you are racing 4 cars, with 4 drivers, for 500km, you're going to be barely able to walk by the end of it

you will be exhausted.... have you ever seen what the drivers look like after they get out of the v8 supercars after a stint at the sandown 500 or the qld 500, or bathurst etc? they're rooted! and these guys are trained to do this day in and day out....

[r33_racer]

The concentration level and speeds they run at are significantly higher/faster then what most normal racers run at. They push themselves to a much higher limit and have someone else with a limit just as high if not higher right up their arse...here it will be just road racers with some skills being pushed by someone with some circuit skills from the occasional track day.

Besides 3 min break minimum will give you a chance to quickly down at least 300mls of water if they dont have a waterfeed setup incar. You would be suprised how far you can push yourself if you really want to do well. When you get into what i spose you could call your 'zone'...you forget everything else except what your doing to win/stay ahead or get around the car infront of you, normally you forget that you have to piss or how thirsty you are...cause all you want to do is get around that stupid commo that keeps taking up the whole track and forces you to jump the ripple strip and miss the apex when he decides to cut right into your line when your overtaking him at 150kph. bloudy holdens!

Yeh if someone could clarify the amount of peoples and how it works. Is it 4 cars 4 drivers to cover the 500kms? or if the team has 4 cars and drivers do they each have to cover 500kms?

[R33S2]

1st team to 500 wins!

[51jay]

1st team to 500 wins!

We are entering a team of 1 car ('95 R33) and 4 drivers

[Stephen22]

Mate...I think it is the Min. of two car you needed..

[51jay]

Mate...I think it is the Min. of two car you needed..

A team has to have at least one car and up to a maximum of four cars, a minimum of two drivers and a maximum of four drivers, in this way we give you the maximum possible flexibility for assembling a team for the event. The entry fee for each team, including both the garage and pit lane accommodation, is $1250. Each team will be allocated a pit Bay and garage for their exclusive use during the event. The pit lane car ports will be lit for the occasion.

[fireball]

I am trying to organise for a Team of four cars....I need one more car and driver.....

I will be bringing two cars out along with my friend Honda DC5-R

Cars in it now:

R33 Gts-t (around 230kw@rims)

AE86 Tureno (154.4kw@rims)

DC5-R with 2.4 Stroke up kit (175kw@rims)

I perfer to have another Turbo car in our team instead of Three N/A and One Turbo....

So anyone in it???Plase drop me a PM or e-mail to [email protected]

How many km do you need the fourth car and driver for?

How much will it cost for each driver/car to enter?

I might be keen to join your group for a few quick laps with my race ready R32GTR. It will just need a set of track tyres. The car is capable od doing faster than average time. However I can't do too many laps as my second car is still stuck in workshop in Adelaide waiting for gearbox part. I am using the gtr as a daily work vehicle atm and don't want any unpleasant surprise

[9krpm]

oops sorry I used fireball computer and did not realised he was still logged on.

[Duncan]

I've done a 500klm race (at wakefield), 3 drivers, 228 laps it was the most fun race I've ever done.

I did a 2 hour stint (first one), I was absolutely rooted at the end of it...but like I said it was brilliant fun...

good luck to all the SAU entrants