2013 Torque Trophy Meeting at Wanneroo

The WASCC's Torque Trophy meeting is the biggest meeting of the year for WA's Street Car racers, with almost 40 years of history behind this event. These days, the Torque Trophy meeting also incorporates the running of the Tander Trophy for Improved Production racers.

This years event saw Kerry Wade take out the Torque Trophy in his Mitsubishi Lancer Evo, while Matt Cherry took home the Tander Trophy in his Holden Monaro.


Canon EOS-1D Mark III - 1/4000 @ f/5.6, 260 mm
Approximate location: Barbagallo Raceway, Neerabup, Western Australia


Canon EOS-1D Mark III - 1/3200 @ f/5.6, 400 mm
Approximate location: Barbagallo Raceway, Neerabup, Western Australia


Canon EOS-1D Mark III - 1/3200 @ f/5.6, 400 mm
Approximate location: Barbagallo Raceway, Neerabup, Western Australia


Canon EOS-1D Mark III - 1/2500 @ f/5.6, 250 mm
Approximate location: Barbagallo Raceway, Neerabup, Western Australia


Canon EOS-1D Mark III - 1/4000 @ f/5.6, 400 mm
Approximate location: Barbagallo Raceway, Nowergup, Western Australia


Canon EOS-1D Mark III - 1/3200 @ f/5.6, 400 mm
Approximate location: Barbagallo Raceway, Nowergup, Western Australia


Canon EOS-1D Mark III - 1/4000 @ f/5, 100 mm
Approximate location: Barbagallo Raceway, Nowergup, Western Australia


Canon EOS-1D Mark III - 1/4000 @ f/5.6, 400 mm
Approximate location: Barbagallo Raceway, Nowergup, Western Australia


Canon EOS-1D Mark III - 1/4000 @ f/5.6, 400 mm
Approximate location: Barbagallo Raceway, Nowergup, Western Australia


Canon EOS-1D Mark III - 1/3200 @ f/5.6, 275 mm
Approximate location: Barbagallo Raceway, Nowergup, Western Australia


Canon EOS-1D Mark III - 1/3200 @ f/5.6, 400 mm
Approximate location: Barbagallo Raceway, Nowergup, Western Australia

Pick Ten: 2013 WASCC April Race Meeting

The feature of this years April race meeting was the Sedan Super Cup races, home to a number ex-V8 Supercars, Porsche Cup car and a couple of Ferrari 458's. Support categories included Historic Sports and Racing Cars, Historic Touring Cars, Formula Vee, Formula Classic and a Formula 1000 demonstration event. Here are ten of my favourite shots from the day.


Canon EOS-1D Mark III - 1/250 @ f/7.1, 400 mm


Canon EOS-1D Mark III - 1/1000 @ f/6.3, 135 mm


Canon EOS-1D Mark III - 1/1000 @ f/8, 400 mm


Canon EOS-1D Mark III - 1/800 @ f/8, 400 mm


Canon EOS-1D Mark III - 1/800 @ f/8, 400 mm


Canon EOS-1D Mark III - 1/800 @ f/8, 190 mm


Canon EOS-1D Mark III - 1/500 @ f/8, 400 mm


Canon EOS-1D Mark III - 1/1250 @ f/7.1, 400 mm


Canon EOS-1D Mark III - 1/1000 @ f/7.1, 400 mm


Canon EOS-1D Mark III - 1/1000 @ f/7.1, 400 mm

Pick Ten: WASCC Twin Trophies Race Meeting

On the weekend just gone, I shot the WA Sporting Car Clubs annual Twin Trophies race meeting, formerly known as the Torque Trophy (for Street Cars), but now renamed to include the Tander Trophy race for Improved Production.

Without too many words, here are 10 of my favourite shots from the meeting.

Busy Weekend For Car Lovers in WA

Well, it was a pretty busy weekend for me anyway, although it kicked into gear a little later on Saturday than normal with the running of the second Night Masters round for the WASCC's championship season.



I started the day off with one of the longest walks in Western Australian motorsport, down to Kolb Corner. This entails walking around 1.5km on the narrow wall that lines the circuit, interrupted by speaker poles and fences that have started to fall over. The walk to Track 6 at the Perth Motorplex is a breeze by comparison, plus you can often get a lift to Track 6 with a passing race team.



The Night Masters presents a number of challenges and opportunities for photographers, and one of those is catching the glowing brake rotors at the main braking points. This shot was taken at the entry to V8Race.com corner (formerly known as a number of things, but I still know it as Shell Corner).



Looking from V8Race.com corner down through the Esses and showing Westrac Cat Corner, this is a 30 second exposure showing the light trails from the HQ Holdens as they round Cat Corner and climb the hill to V8Race.com corner.



Sunday was definitely a day for those with an interest in classic iron, with two events catering to the hot rod and custom fraternity. The Cranksters Rod and Custom Club's annual Pipeline Picnic was held at Mundaring, with hundreds of hot rods, customs and street machines filling the grounds of the Mundaring Hotel and the neighbouring Mundaring Community Sculpture Park.



Ben Forster's 'Las Drogas', shown below, was built by members of the Cranksters, Goodfellas and a number of other Perth clubs, while the paint on the doors was laid down by signwriter and auto artist Scully, owner of the white three window coupe shown above.



After leaving Mundaring, I headed down to the Perth Motorplex for their Retro Drags event, these are a great relaxed event where owners of nostalgia type cars can race against similar cars or park up in the pits and check out some racing.

Ron Crosby has been a long time supporter of nostalgia racing in Western Australia and was racing today in his Holden 6 powered Front Engined Dragster.



Unfortunately, I know nothing more about this 68 Charger than that it was sitting in the pits and I just knew I had to get a photo of it as I was walking.

This was the final Retro Drags event for the 2009/2010 season at the Perth Motorplex, so if you want to run at the next Retro Drags event, keep an eye on the Motorplex's website for their 2010/2011 season calendar when it's released. In the meantime, Nostalgia type vehicles have their own bracket at every Fast Friday event.

Over the next couple of days I'll be sorting through the rest of the photos from these three events to upload to High Octane Photos.

Night Masters 1 at Barbagallo Raceway

One of my favourite meetings of the WASCC's Club Racing Season, is the Night Masters. In the past the club have run these events as a 3 event series, as a stand alone event and as a 2 event series. This years format saw the first round of the Night Masters held on the 20th of February. The second round is scheduled for the 13th of March.


Ash Barnett curb hopping on the way up through the Esses at Wanneroo.


Rex Meechin's UltraSport is a very impressive car, incredibly quick around Wanneroo and a work of art as well.


Rob Hagarty had a little off track excursion on the first lap of this race, and was working hard to make up ground, as you can see here.


In the Historic Touring Cars, Martyn Piercey got out of shape in his Alfetta GTV and nudged the Alfa of Chris Chang, sending Chang into the sand and leaving a fairly large dent in his drivers door.


Of course, the reason this meeting is called the Night Masters, is because a large portion of the racing is under lights. Here, Street Car competitor Ivan Tan is approaching Ford Fastbreak corner in his Subaru WRX.


Improved Production racing is growing quickly in WA, with the class now being big enough to be granted their own races at the Night Masters rounds, instead of sharing with the similar Street Car class as has happened in the past.


Traditionally, the highlight of the Night Masters program has been the Night Masters races themselves, which featured the quickest cars out of a number of categories on the night, and consisted of 3, 3 lap mini-races with a reverse grid start for each of the mini-races. Unfortunately, in the last couple of years these races haven't been run, but I for one, am still hopeful that we will see them return in future.


The next round of the Night Masters series is set for the 13th of March, part of a busy weekend for me, with the annual ACE Ford Club Cruise also on the 13th and the Cranksters Rod and Kustom Club's annual Pipeline Cruise on Sunday the 14th, along with the Perth Motorplex's Retro Drags event.