Aussie Icons
With the annual 1000km race around Mount Panorama racetrack at Bathurst in New South Wales having just been run, I thought it timely to post this shot taken back in 2004. On our big trip around Australia, I could not go past a visit to the iconic racetrack. Most of the year, the whole track is public roads. On this particular day, there just happened to be a hillclimb meeting in progress, and I was fascinated to see cars going the opposite way on the track to the usual race direction.This area of the track is known as "skyline" for obvious reasons. The Holden sign is the other icon and sadly passes into history now the Holden brand name is no longer with us with manufacturing of General Motors' Holden now ended in Australia.
I didn't quite fit in the whole name of this part of the track on the wall - it is fully known as Brock's skyline, in reference to the legendary racing driver Peter Brock, another Aussie icon.
For the record, the next day, we did our own hot laps of the track, but sadly we were very strictly limited to the local speed limits which at the time were 60 kilometres an hour right round the track - so our hot lap was 6 minutes and 30 seconds. The race speed at this part is usually around 180 and the lap times just 2 minutes and 5 seconds! We found it scary enough here just doing 60!
(Slide scanned using Canon RP with 24-240 and Nisi close up lens. Original taken using Fuji Sensia 100 slide film)
Aussie Icons
With the annual 1000km race around Mount Panorama racetrack at Bathurst in New South Wales having just been run, I thought it timely to post this shot taken back in 2004. On our big trip around Australia, I could not go past a visit to the iconic racetrack. Most of the year, the whole track is public roads. On this particular day, there just happened to be a hillclimb meeting in progress, and I was fascinated to see cars going the opposite way on the track to the usual race direction.This area of the track is known as "skyline" for obvious reasons. The Holden sign is the other icon and sadly passes into history now the Holden brand name is no longer with us with manufacturing of General Motors' Holden now ended in Australia.
I didn't quite fit in the whole name of this part of the track on the wall - it is fully known as Brock's skyline, in reference to the legendary racing driver Peter Brock, another Aussie icon.
For the record, the next day, we did our own hot laps of the track, but sadly we were very strictly limited to the local speed limits which at the time were 60 kilometres an hour right round the track - so our hot lap was 6 minutes and 30 seconds. The race speed at this part is usually around 180 and the lap times just 2 minutes and 5 seconds! We found it scary enough here just doing 60!
(Slide scanned using Canon RP with 24-240 and Nisi close up lens. Original taken using Fuji Sensia 100 slide film)