The Car or Thing that gets you Inspired Thread

**Preen59** · 14-02-2011, 12:19 PM

Worth a look. F5000 at Warwick Farm..

**bigfoot** · 14-02-2011, 01:47 PM

Originally Posted by Preen59

Worth a look. F5000 at Warwick Farm..

a friend of mine used to race F5000...he tells a good yarn

**Preen59** · 14-02-2011, 06:26 PM

Originally Posted by bigfoot

a friend of mine used to race F5000...he tells a good yarn

I'd imagine he would! F5000 are amazing to watch..

**Peter Jones** · 14-02-2011, 06:36 PM

There should be F5000s running at the island classic again this year.

http://www.vhrr.com/images/PI%20Ad%20VR8.pdf

Lots of Very Special Porsches too.

Rare Museum Porsches headline 2011 PI Classic

Rare sports cars spanning six decades are heading from Germany’s Porsche Museum to the 2011 Phillip Island Classic Festival of Motorsport from March 18-20 to celebrate Porsche’s 60th anniversary in Australia.

The headline act of the collection is the 935/78 coupe nick-named ‘Moby ****’ by Porsche race mechanics because of its large and extended ‘whale tail’.

Based on a production 911 body shell to Group 5 regulations, Moby **** was with climax of 935 race car development. Powered by a 621 kW (845 hp) turbocharged 3.2-litre six-cylinder development of the production 911 engine, it reached 366 km/h at Le Mans in 1978.

Perhaps the most recognisable of all Porsche racecars – the famous 956/962 which won the Le Mans 24 Hour seven times between 1982 and 1994 – is also part of the exclusive collection that will be seen at the Phillip Island Classic in March.

The car secured for Australia is the Rothmans 962 raced to victory in 1987 by Derek Bell, Hans Stuck and Al Holbert.

From the 1960s comes the eight cylinder 908/02 Spyder that won the 1969 Targa Florio and the 718 RS 60 Spyder that won the 1960 Daytona 24 Hour race.

Other special Porsches in the collection include the lightweight 911 SC raced by Walter Rohrl in the gruelling 1980 San Remo rally and a V10-engined Porsche Carrera GT road car from 2003.

The Porsches will all be demonstrated at the Phillip Island meeting, which has again attracted a huge entry of more than 500 sports, racing and touring cars for the third consecutive year – more than 30 of them from overseas.