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The Centenary of Alfa Romeo will be
celebrated with brio at the 21st Anniversary
Phillip Island Classic Festival of Motor
Sport from 19-21 March 2010, with more than
100 examples of the feisty Italian marque
taking to the Grand Prix circuit for a
variety of events. |
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The
Centenary of Alfa Romeo will be celebrated with brio at
the 21st Anniversary Phillip Island Classic Festival of
Motor Sport from 19-21 March 2010, with more than 100
examples of the feisty Italian marque taking to the
Grand Prix circuit for a variety of events.
Kevin Bartlett,
who won the Australian Drivers’ Championship (CAMS Gold
Star) in 1968 and 1969 driving an Alfa-Romeo powered Brabham
and Mildren open wheeler respectively, has been honoured as
the Phillip Island Classic’s Patron. Other well-known
Australian drivers with noted Alfa Romeo racing histories,
including Alan Jones, Colin Bond, Tim Schenken, Bryan
Thomson, Jim McKeown and Frank Porter, are being invited to
join him at the meeting.
Important racing
Alfa Romeos coming from overseas include Alfa’s first
genuine single-seater Grand Prix car – the magnificent 1931
P3 Tipo B monoposto of expatriate Briton Peter Giddings –
while American enthusiast Tom Price is bringing his
beautiful 1932 model Alfa Romeo 8C 2300. Other important
Alfas expected at Phillip Island include a glorious 1963 TZ1
(Tubolare Zagato) racing coupe and a rapid 1967 Tipo 33
Spider sports car.
An overall entry
of around 500 touring, sports and racing cars spanning more
than 50 years is again expected at what has become the
largest classic motors sport festival to be held in the
Southern Hemisphere.
By Christmas –
three months out from the meeting – the VHRR had already
received a record 360 entries, including nearly 100 Group
Sa, Sb and Sc production sports cars, more than 90 Group N
historic touring cars and 100 cars in two Regularity
divisions. The meeting will also feature a record number of
Formula 5000 racing cars on the grid, with over 40 of these
thundering V8-engined open wheelers expected to line up.
Two Touring Car
milestones will additionally be celebrated at the 2010
Classic. The 50th anniversaries of the Armstrong 500 – the
progenitor of today’s Bathurst 1000 – and the 50th
anniversary of the Australian Touring Car Championship, will
both be marked with displays and parades of historic touring
cars and their drivers. The 2010 Phillip Island Classic
Festival of Motor Sport is again being supported by Shannons,
Penrite Lubricants and CoolDrive and will be conducted for
the 21st year by the Victorian Historic Racing Register.
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