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Of course you have bought your tickets for next weekend’s Australian Production Cars Championships at Tony Quinn’s Queensland Raceway, where you’ll see 72 men, two McLarens, three Porkers, 11 BMWs and one 1996 Nissan Pulsar (guess who?) and one woman, Renee Gracie, in a Ginetta, running in one-hour races that will favour the older competitors, like 65-year-old former Scotsperson, pet food and chocolate tsar Tony Quinn, (who mistakenly first moved to Perth (WA) from Aberdeen then quickly realised “Perth was full of thieves, vagabonds, wankers and pricks who robbed him of his money and confidence”. Good, nothing’s changed then, and guess who? One clue. He and teammate Phil Alexander will be the key threat to the McLarens, in the 1996 Nissan Pulsar.
If you aren’t in Ipswich, you’ll be in Monterey for Car Week that kicks off on Friday with, not surprisingly, Monterey Car Week Kick-Off, a classic car show in Downtown Monterey. You’ll be able to see 30 classic race cars lining the 300 blocks of Alvarado St. Hardly wait for that. But it gets better. On the weekend the Monterey Pre-Reunion sees more than 300 race cars competing for two days ahead of the Rolex Monterey Motorsports Reunion.
Then it’s straight to the Monterey Jet Centre for the ultimate celebration of automotive beauty, exquisite aircraft, and fellow car connoisseurs and aeroplane aficionados at Motorlux.
You and 3000 other VIP guests stroll the array of exceptional and rare vintage race cars, motorcycles and aircraft. World-Class sponsors will also join you and your 3000 besties to show off their latest offerings and wow guests with the first look at what’s coming...