The HSRCA’s 2025 Sydney Classic heads to Sydney Motorsport Park this King’s Birthday long weekend, June 7 & 8, and will bring a spectacular collection of classic race, sports and touring cars to the cityside circuit.
The meeting will feature the Group C & A Australian touring cars of the Heritage Touring Cars series, HQ Racing NSW and MG Racing Australia alongside events for all historic race classes and speed events for vehicles up to the 2010s.
Heritage Touring Cars is a series for Group C (1973 – 84) and Group A (1985 – 1992) Australian Touring Cars. These are the legendary machines that conquered Bathurst in the hands of names like Johnson, Moffat, Brock and Richards, and they’re a sight and sound to behold.
This weekend you’ll be able to see the first and last JPS BMWs on track at the same time. Dean How is set to pilot an ex-Allan Grice/Jim Richards JPS Team BMW 635CSi. The car is one of three built by Werginz Motorsport in Austria. It was brought back to Australia by Frank Gardner, stripped, prepared for Group C competition and painted in the iconic JPS livery, understood to be the first JPS Team BMW built. David Towe’s JPS BMW M3 is believed to be the last of the cars built, finished in late 1987 and debuting in the James Hardie 1000 that year at the hands of Jim Richards and Tony Longhurst.
Boasting a similar Bathurst heritage, David Holland will compete in his father Don Holland’s Holden Torana XU-1. Don Holland is a stalwart of Australian touring car racing, competing in the 1963 Armstrong 500, which would eventually become the Bathurst 1000, and going on to make 17 appearances on The Mountain. This car was Don’s ride for the 1972 Hardie-Ferodo 500, where he finished fifth and raced alongside his wife Jan Holland in a second Torana, before it was converted to Group C specifications in 1973.
Other highlights include Meon Nehrybecki’s AMG-Mercedes 190E 2.5-16 Evo2, the Ford Sierra RS500 of Chris Stillwell, multiple Walkinshaw VL Commodores and much more.
HQ Racing NSW debuted with the HSRCA at the 2024 Sydney Classic and were an immediate fit with the club. Born in Tasmania in 1989, the category runs Holden HQ four door sedans with 3.3-litre six cylinder engines.
Keep an eye out for Glenn Deering, who has been racing with the category since 2003 and is a state champion. He’ll be on board #5, a 1971 car. Daniel Gaudry is an ex-speedway racer who ran an HQ at Oran Park before it closed. He debuted in the series last year after seeing the series in action at Bathurst and will be in #1. Both drivers were quick to extol the virtues of the series, which offers a welcoming community and excellent grassroots motorsport in cars that you can still work on yourself and be competitive.
In the MG Racing Australia field look forward to the mighty MGB GT V8 of Philip Chester. The car competed in Production Sports for fifteen years, and features a monster 5.6-litre Rover V8 paired with a six speed sequential box and a composite aerodynamic package. Robin Bailey will be on board a second MGB GT V8, and three decade veteran of the series James Dodd will pedal a MG ZR.
With these categories joining strong fields of Group N touring cars, which will include Minis up against Mustangs, Toranas, a Charger and more, and Group S classic sports cars featuring, amongst many others, the always dominant 911s and MGs, this is sure to be a great weekend for fans of tin top racing.
That doesn’t mean the open wheel race cars are lacking, however. This weekend you’ll be able to see (and hear, wherever you are on the circuit) the Elfin MR8 Formula 5000 of Bill Hemming and Nola Chev of Daniel Nolan, enjoy iconic Brabham race cars in M, O, P and Formula Junior and catch some of the most exciting racing of the weekend in Formula Vee and Formula Ford.
Spectator passes for the meeting available for purchase online ahead of the meeting, and will be available at the gate each day. Head to our page on Humanitix here to purchase. Gates will be open from 8:00am, with racing starting from 8:30am on both days. For all of the most up-to-date information, please see our ‘Sydney Classic’ page here.
We are pleased to announce that for the first time, you’ll be able to enjoy the action from the comfort of home via a live stream kindly produced by the team at Blend Line TV.
Blend Line TV is a subscription service, which costs $8 per month and includes not only our meeting, but other motorsport as well. You can learn more by clicking this link, which is where you’ll find the livestream of the Sydney Classic June 7 & 8.
We’ll look forward to seeing you at Sydney Motorsport Park this weekend for a magic weekend of motor sport. Stay tuned to Blend Line TV for live coverage, and our social pages at facebook.com/hsrca and @hsrcansw on Instagram.
Sydney Motorsport Park is located 40km west of Sydney’s CBD on Brabham Drive/ Ferrers Road at Eastern Creek. It is most easily accessed by car or bike, but is accessible by train or bus. The main spectator entrance is Gate A, which is around the back of the circuit turning left off Ferrers Road and left when you see the ticket booths. General parking is available in the P3 carpark.
Information on getting to the circuit is available on the Sydney Motorsport Park website.
2025 HSRCA Sydney Classic Provisional Program of Events [PDF]
2025 HSRCA Sydney Classic Entry List, Carports and Garages [PDF]