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THOUGHT
FOR
THE DAY
Barbagallos Super Sprint was HOT!
BUT WAIT...
THERE'S MORE!
Got some time to kill? Go to our new Just
for Fun page.
No current Poll
We
will announce some changes to this years competition
shortly.
What's new? Thursday, February 04, 2010
Added current Registered Entrants list, see documents at left,
under tracks.
Monday, February
01, 2010 CAMS
are holding a festival of sport and presentations on Sunday
February 14th
at the Motorplex. They require 12 vehicles for a static display
and a sprint demonstration. The festival starts at 10am to
4pm and presentations are at 3pm. Any people interested in
this display and sprint please call Peter Morley on 0409556826.
Please note that this event is only for LF
PERFORMANCE SPEED EVENT SERIES registered entrants from 2009
and 2010
and not for the general public.
Friday, January 29, 2010
Added Entry Forms for Rounds 2 (Collie Hillclimb 27th Feb)
and 3 (Collie Sprint 28th Feb), see Series
Documents at bottom of this page.
Friday, January 22, 2010 Revised
2010 LF Performance Series Registration Forms,
see Series Documents at bottom of this
page.
Slight changes to Classes, if you have already sent in your
Series Registration Form, no need to send another.
2010 Series Regs will be released as soon as available.
CAMS WA is offering training
sessions, if anyone would like to become a scrutineer, you
might be interested: see
CAMS Officials Training Calendar
If you would like to do any of the training offered contact
Aaron Yeak, Acting Regional Manager - Central West direct:
1300 883 959 for more information.
2009 LF Performance Speed
Event Series Presentations
held last night at the Lakers Tavern, Forrest Lakes, was a
great night, thanks to Lyn and Peter Morley for organising
the great venue. We had a great turn out, and hope to post
some photos of the presentation winners as they become available
- send them in if you took any pics last night!
And the 2009 Winners were!
See all of the cars that took out 1st, 2nd and 3rd place Outright,
and all Class 1st and 2nds in our new Winners
Gallery.
Monday, January 18,
2010 Added
Entry Form and Sup Regs to first event of the year, Round
1 Barbagallos Sprint, February 13th, see Series
Documents at bottom of page.
Public Notice from CAMS
CAMS Festival of Motor Sport Date: Sunday 14th Feb
Where: Kwinana Motorplex
Time: 10am – 4pm (CAMS awards to be held at 3pm)
Cost: Free for clubs to display and free for spectators
Bays are designated at 4.5m x 11m but CAMS can allocate more
than one bay depending on what members would like to do. The
idea is to have cars and club material (with club members)
on display to promote the activities of the club and hopefully
recruit more members.
There will also be a Rally Sprint and dynamic displays happening.
Monday,
January 04, 2010 Change
to Calendar (Round 8 Barbagallos to Saturday), see Calendar
page.
Tuesday, December 29, 2009 2010
provisional Calendar posted, see Calendar
page.
Monday, December 21, 2009
Released 2010 LF Performance Series Entry Forms, see Series
Documents at bottom of this page. 2010 Series Regs will
be released as soon as available.
Sunday, December 20, 2009
Updated Final Points Scores for 2009 season, see Points
page. Congratulatiions to all Class Winners, the Presentations
will be in January, we will post details of venue and day/times
when finalised. Many thanks to Richard Miller for the following
season wrap-up.
Monday, December 14, 2009
Added photos from Barbagallos Super Sprint, see Barbagallos
page. Posted
results from Barbagallos Super Sprint, see Results
or Barbagallos page.
The 2009 L F Performance Speed
Event Series in review.
2009 has been a very successful year for
the L F Performance Speed Event Series. We have welcomed aboard
new sponsors, new entrants and we have seen a year of spirited
competition. The standard of cars has been ever improving,
the margins ever closer and the winning times ever quicker.
We have seen the debut of a new venue in the Collie hillclimb
and there have been changes in the organisational side with
CAMS setting up a special advisory committee made up largely
of SES folk.
Thanks must to go out to our generous sponsors, the organising
committee, scrutineers, clerks of course, race secretaries,
marshals, timekeepers, point scorers, website designers, trophy
makers, photographers, lunch ladies & everyone else has
who contributed to such a great year.
Since its beginnings in the late nineties
the series has grown enormously. This is demonstrated by the
number of competitors, the quality of the cars & of the
competition. Some random statistics may illustrate the health
of the LF Performance Speed Event Series in 2009.
The series boasted 103 registered entrants.
329 individuals competed in the SES.
Collectively 951 entries were received over the thirteen rounds.
There were six winners for the thirteen events.
17 entrants claimed outright trophies.
65 winners claimed class trophies.
The biggest field was at Mt Clarence with 103 runners.
The closest outright finish for the year at Jack’s Hill
where Graham Renn bested Phillip Morley by 0.3535 seconds.
The closest class finish for the year was at Collie in May
where Bill Stagoll beat out Marcus Hodge by 0.0065 seconds,
with the winning time being 53.6816 seconds.
Outright championship
The run away winner for 2009 was Peter Morley in his OMS RA
open wheeler. Peter dominated the results with wins at all
but two of the events he attended, scoring 82 points in the
process. It represents Peter’s third championship in
three years. Well done.
Second in the standings with 54 points
was Tony Flood. Despite the WRX falling away a little in outright
competitiveness a series of excellent results at the hillclimbs
allowed Tony to match his placing of 2008.
Third outright was Mike Joss in his Nissan
Silvia. Mike has put a great deal of work into the Nissan
in recent years and a string of solid results is the reward
for his efforts.
Other notable point scoring outright runners
included Dick Ward with a win in the steaming heat at the
Christmas sprint round, Phil Morley who, in his fathers OMP,
picked up a pair of ten point results and Cos Sorgiovanni
in a newly imported Pilbeam winning on debut at the Barbagallo
long circuit.
Class reports
Outright Under 2000cc Open Cars (1A)
The 1A class is very much a family affair. The Morley family
being represented by Peter & Phil & the Sorgiovanni’s
by Cos & Chris. Honours rested with Peter who won the
class with 86 points.
Outright Under 2000cc Closed Cars (1B)
The outright under 2 litre class was taken out by Peter Byrne
who went one place up on his efforts in 2007 & 2008. As
is his custom Peter entered all the events and only a rear
axle failure at Collie in May preventing him from scoring
points at all thirteen rounds.
Others to win the ten points were Gary Mewett in his Monte
Carlo, Tsung Lee (Honda Civic), Angela Hooper (Honda Integra)
and Tom Vann Kan (Toyota Sprinter). Gavin Reynolds (Honda
Civic) although not registered had a good year with class
wins at all three Wanneroo events and a class lap record on
the long circuit.
Outright over 2001cc Open and Closed (1C)
Ray Ferrari used both his West 89 & R33 Skyline GT-R to
good effect to win the 1C category. The wonderful sound of
the GT-R launching on the limiter at hillclimbs being matched
by the raucous idle of the West’s rotary at other events.
In second place was Dick Ward in the RX-7/Fiat Arbath and
the Hornsey family (Adrian & Keith) in third & forth
respectively. A good result given the huge number of miles
the two travelled to reach many events.
Group N & Group S Cars under 1500cc
(3A)
John Poyner dominated the under 1500cc historic class in his
neat 1972 Lancer GSR from Terry O’Keefe in his Mini
Cooper with a round win at Collie being the highlight of his
year.
Group N & Group S Cars over 1501cc
(3B)
As is to be expected this class is one of the most diverse
with entries for a Valiant Charger, Ford Cortina & GT
Falcon, Holden Torana’s and a TVR 3000M.
Eddie Melle (Mk 7 Bolwell) emerged victorious
from John Hurney (TVR 3000M) in a hard fought championship.
Ken Eade (Chrysler Valiant S) was in third despite missing
the last half of the season with the ever genial John Urquhart
(Chrysler Valiant Charger) showing there is not much wrong
with the brand.
Class winner during the year also included
David Bartlett (Ford Cortina) Graeme Riley (Holden Torana),
Paul Van Den Rydt (Ford Escort), Russell Cooley (Ford Falcon)
and Garry Edwards (BMW 2002).
Production Sports Cars under 2000cc (4A)
The 4A class was very much a benefit for the Lotus brand.
A late surge by Barry Nash (Elise) settled the class championship
in his favour. Second was Bob Chaplin (Elise) who had a perfect
start to the year with five wins in five outings but faded
later on. A sole win went to Victor Popescu (Elise S2) and
a pair to Bill Stagoll (Exige) when he took time off from
his Porsche. Marcus Hodge claiming third place with two wins
over the Albany long weekend.
Production Sports Cars 2001 - 3200cc (4B)
Bill Stagoll in his Silver 911 dominated the point score &
class results for the year. Sole wins went to Rich Davies
(Datsun 240Z), Peter Harrold (260Z) at Collie and Graeme Paynter
(Porsche 911) at Wanneroo.
Production Sports Cars over 3201cc (4C)
The over 3.2 litre class is one of the series most popular
and diverse. No fewer than 18 cars were entered for Wanneroo
in February. A consistent campaign from Karl Watson in his
black Toyota Supra saw him take out the class from Colin Wishart
in his Clevelend engined Cobra. Demonstrating the diversity
of the class wins went to Adam Plummer (Porsche 911), Iain
Reid (Cobra), Robert Cameron (Triumph TR7), Paul Summers (Porsche
911) and Frank Alvaro (Toyota Supra).
Four Wheel Drive
The four wheel drive class has been one of the most popular
and closely fought over the season. The class high water marks
included seventeen entries for Collie in February and the
first four outright places at Busselton. There have been eight
different class winners over the thirteen events with the
tightest winning margin of 0.03 seconds at the second of the
Collie supersprints.
From all that the familiar TFM Subaru
WRX of Tony Flood has once again emerged as class champion
– his two round victories helping extend his winning
run to four years on the trot. But this year he has been pushed
like never before by a number of new inclusions and some improvements
amongst familiar faces.
Peter Flood contributed to the WRX score
with a win at the October Jack’s Hill round helping
him to third place in the points. Former class champion Jamie
Lister made a brief return to head the 4WD’s at Jacks
Hill. Despite only running four events Michael Lloyd won outright
at Busselton and Meelup.
Class wins have gone to the Mitsubishi
Evo’s of series Sponsor Kim Ledger (Barbagallo short
course), Franz Estebauer (Collie circuit) & Ben Maziarz.
Ben’s second place in the points tally is a reflection
of his solid year with a class win & third outright at
Mt Clarence being the years highlight.
Highlight of the year for the Nissan 4WD’s
was the Eames’ families effort at the second of the
Collie hillclimbs. James won the event outright with George
in third place.
Road Registered under 2000cc (5A)
In a repeat of the 2008 result, the under two litre road registered
category went to the well proven Escort of Bevan Cook It was
very much a case of the new versus the old in the under 2000cc
class – Escorts of varying vintages vying for honours
with much newer Honda Civics. For the Escorts round wins went
to Bevan Cook, Ed Griffiths & Mark Hallam. For the Honda’s
honours were claimed by Sena Pratama & Daniel Yovanovich.
Duane Joubert in his Toyota Sprinter bucked the trend with
a win at Busselton.
Road Registered 2001 - 4000cc (5B)
Mike Joss (Nissan Silvia) dominated the class with eleven
wins, three outright podium placings and a new lap record
for the Collie circuit recorded the day after an off at the
hillclimb. Ian Chambers had a solid year with the highlight
being a brace of wins at Albany.
Road Registered over 4001cc (5C)
Proving that a consistent run in the points score is the way
to do it – Andrew Vaisey (Skyline GTS-T) claimed the
over four litre championship.
In second was Mike Wallis in his RB25DET
engined 260Z. Mike managed to pack a lot into this season.
Highlights (?) included a run in with the constabulary over
the Albany long weekend, what can only be described as an
attention getting expedition through the paddock at the end
of the start/finish straight at Collie, a substantial off
at Jacks Hill and a somewhat second hand motor on the return
from the Collie hillclimb.
Former series regular Julian O’Hara
debuted his red DRB GT40 replica at the Jack’s hillclimb
– despite a persistent misfire & poor handling Julian
claimed a pair of class wins. Peter Pisconerii (Ford Falcon)
rounded out the year with a win at the Wanneroo combined circuit
sprint.
Special mention must go to Russell Cooley
(XY Falcon) & Shayne Farley (VH Commodore) for their prompt
return to the series after a pair of incidents.
Production Clubman (PC)
Brent Matthews (Westfield SE) and Gary Thorn (Birkin S3) battled
it out for honours in the production clubman class. Between
them they won all of the class trophies on offer and Brent
really only cemented the championship win at the Meelup event.
Frank Ferrari & Colin Youd both had consistent campaigns
to claim third & fourth in class.
Richard Miller
Thankyou to Vic Soulious for putting together this pictorial
wrap-up of some of the 2009 season!
We
want your SES stories!
Do you have any entertaining stories from the last few SES
rounds, or are you interested in doing an article covering
an SES event?
Have you taken any SES event photos that you would like to
see posted on this website?
We'd love your contribution, Email
your photos or mini article and we'll post it here! ... and your video clips!
Send us a link to your in-car footage or video of any of the
Speed Event Series action. Franz
Esterbauer, one hot lap of Collie Sprint
with in-car telemetry
YouTube Video. Sena
Pratama's Road-cam on Honda Type R Collie
Sprint, March 1st '09 YouTube
Video. Sena
Pratama's Road-cam on Honda Type R Collie Hillclimb,
28th Feb '09
YouTube Video. Ryan
Kim's In-car footage Collie Sprint, March
1st '09
YouTube Video. Ryan
Kim's In-car footage Collie Hillclimb, 28th
Feb '09
YouTube Video. Paul
Klucks 65 second Barbagallos Long Circuit
lap in his S14 YouTube
Video. Frank
Alvaro's spin, Barbagallos Round 1 '09
YouTube Video. Matt
Greens Meelup '08 Hill Climb from spectator
points
YouTube Video. Matt
Greens Meelup '08 Hill Climb, In-car footage
Subaru WRX
YouTube Video. Matt
Greens Busselton Sprint '07 In-car footage
Subaru WRX
YouTube Video. Wayne
Pearsons Busselton Sprint '09 in his AU Falcon
TS50 Photobucket
Video. Franz
Esterbauer, Evo 8 MR Busselton Sprint '09
with in-car telemetry
YouTube Video. RXHEAVEN
vs Porsche 997 GT3RS at night, Barbagallos Short Circuit
in-car YouTube
Video. RXHEAVEN,
a couple hotlaps of Collie - behind rear
wheel cam YouTube
Video. Drivetime
footage from 2004 Inaugural Busselton Super Stage
plus in-car footage from Paul Klucks S14 YouTube
Video. 28/6/2009
- Barbagallo Raceway- Long Track. Some great
shot of Gavin's Honda Civic from inside Frank's Toyota Supra.
Fastest lap 66.9641 sec, the first lap of the four. YouTube
Video. 28/6/2009
- Barbagallo Raceway - Long Track in the
wet. YouTube
Video. 2/8/2008
- Barbagallo Raceway - Long Track (last years
series) Toyota Supra chasing down a Porsche GT3. YouTube
Video. 28/6/2009
- Barbagallo Raceway GT Falcon Replica almost
rolls YouTube
Video.
Current featured video Drivetime
TV footage from 2004 Inaugural Busselton Super Stage
featuring several cars from that event, plus in-car footage,
2 hotlaps from Paul Klucks S14.
Photography
and Videos
All of the competitors of the SES greatly appreciate seeing
their vehicle competing in one or many of the events throughout
the season. We try to post up a snapshot of up to 12 still
images from each event, so if you take some shots please send
them though for possible inclusion. We are happy to provide
links to your own photo gallery if you have more images to
share. All images will be 200 x 150 pixels so if you want
to resize/crop before sending, even better, but not necessary
as we can crop/resize if required. If you have any video clips
either in-car or otherwise, please Email us a link to your
You Tube or other clips. Email photos
and video links here. Please do not Email actual
video clips, post them via You Tube and just send the links
to the clip.
What
is the LF Performance Speed Event Series?
With around 9-11 rounds per year, this avenue of motorsport
allows full-on race cars and street cars alike, the opportunity
to get onto the greatest black track circuits available in
Western Australia including Barbagallo Raceway, the same circuit
as used by the V8 Supercars. Collie Motorplex, another black
track circuit, provides the same thrills but without the hills.
A couple of Hillclimbs complete the season calendar, all being
run as closed road events. Fastest time, in your class, gets
you the points for the day. The Speed
Event Series Calendar for 2010 is now posted,
so download your Series and Event Entry forms when they become
available. If you register for the Series, Event Entry forms
will be posted to you when available. See the Frequently
Asked Questions (faq) page for more information.
Documents
for events in the 2010 LF Performance Speed Event Series
If you have any trouble opening the above documents, please
right click each item, and select "Save Target As"
to save it to your computer.
You will then be able to open and view the files offline.
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LF Performance Speed Event Series that would be good to add
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