2024 HSRCA Summer Festival

Entry is now open for the HSRCA’s 2024 Summer Festival at Sydney Motorsport Park, to be held over the 30th of November and 1st of December, with private practice available on Friday the 29th. You are most cordially invited!

Click this link to enter via the Motorsport Australia members’ portal

Private practice is kindly being hosted by the ARDC on Friday the 29th of November, 2024. Entry is $230 for HSRCA and ARDC members and $260 for non-members. Book online now.

Private Practice

Private practice for the 2024 Summer Festival is hosted by the ARDC. Online entry is available ahead of the event at this link. 

The price is $160 (incl. GST and booking fee) for HSRCA and ARDC members or $190 for non-members. Enter your membership ID in the DISCOUNT CODE field.

The schedule shows a drivers’ briefing at 7:45am, but there will be alternate arrangements if you cannot make the briefing. Practice will commence from 8.30 am and the programme will be available.

Bump-In Thursday November 28

We are pleased to announce that, due to an unexpected cancellation, bump-in and unloading will now be available as per usual from 5:30pm tomorrow, Thursday November 28, ahead of Friday’s private practice and the Summer Festival.

Following consistent negotiations, we are kindly being let in to the venue early to allow our competitors to prepare for the weekend. So if you encounter someone still packing up from the daytime event, please be polite and considerate and wait for them to finish their work. We all know the effort that goes into preparing for and packing up for motor sport.

Paddock Layout and Use

A paddock map is at the above link. Please adhere to this map, particularly in taking up a position on the skid pan. Also, please assist by parking your tender vehicle and trailer in the designated parking areas (not the paddock.)

Race Meeting Sign-On and Scrutineering

Entry passes and HSRCA sign-on will be available in the Hinxman Room from 11:00 Friday morning (practice day). Please bring the following:

• Proof of membership of an MSA affiliated car club
• Your completed “Self Statement of Vehicle Compliance” form
• Your vehicle logbook, if applicable

We have allocated two entry passes to each competitor. Your HSRCA member’s card can act as an additional pass, plus one guest. Extra passes are available upon request. Please only take what you need.

This will also include tender vehicle passes. Please insert your race car number on the tender pass.

Saturday Morning Entry

If you are not arriving at the circuit until Saturday morning:

• Entry passes should be available at the gate. Enter the circuit and set up your car at your allocated space
• Complete your competitor sign-on for the event with the race secretary

Drivers’ briefing will be at 7:45 am in the Hinxman Room.

Spectators

The gates will open from 8:30am, with events kicking off from 9:00am.

Spectator passes will be available online in the lead-up to the event, as well as at the gates on the day.

Tickets are $25 for Saturday, $20 for Sunday and $30 for a weekend pass. Concession tickets are $20 for Saturday, $15 for Sunday and $25 for the weekend. All passes include free entry for kids 12 and under.

Media

Motorsport Australia accredited media can apply for accreditation via web@hsrca.com.

A media briefing and map document is available below, along with additional details. If you have any questions, please don’t hesitate to get in touch.

Enter SMSP at Gate A, Ferrers Rd (Main entrance). Please have your ticket handy on your phone, or print it out, to show staff at the gate.

Parking will be on the Figure 8 (P2), which is through the main entrance of Sydney Motorsport Park and after the tunnel, then left past the Medical Centre.

Sign-on will be at race control. Here you will receive your wristband and if required, your vest. You will also have a brief meeting with a member of our team to go over and accept the regulations for the event.

You will need the wristband and vest, or your current Motorsport Australia (CAMS) vest to access the track, pit lane and garages. SMSP vests must be returned and signed out at Race Control at the conclusion of the event.

2023 Sydney Motorsport Park Photographer Regulations and Map [PDF]

You Are Most Cordially Invited to the 2024 HSRCA Summer Festival at Sydney Motorsport Park

We are pleased to invite you to the grand finale of 2024’s historic motor racing season – the HSRCA’s 2024 Summer Festival, which will feature events for all historic categories plus Modern Regularity (up to 2010) and super sprint competitions.

Enter via the Motorsport Australia members’ portal as usual:

https://motorsport.org.au/

Download your supplementary regulations and necessary documents from the following links:

2024 HSRCA Summer Festival Supplementary Regulations [PDF]

Motorsport Australia Statement of Vehicle Compliance [PDF]

Our very special guest on this weekend will be Kevin Bartlett, who is generously joining us from his home in Queensland. Kevin was a champion in many disciplines in the golden era of motor racing, winning the Gold Star in the Australian Drivers’ Championship back to back in 1968 and ‘69, as well as the 1974 Bathurst 1000 with co-driver John Goss, and the 1969 Macau Grand Prix. Racing touring cars over two decades, he was also the first person to set a 100 mile an hour lap at Bathurst, among many other achievements.

We are organising a dinner on Saturday the 30th of November at the Alpha Hotel, when we can hear some of the stories direct from the man who wrote Big Rev Kev, including of the many cars he drove faster than most, from Morris Minors to Formula 5000s to BMW 635s and the Channel 9 Camaro. And with a little luck, we hope to have some of those cars on display over the weekend.

Please indicate your intention to attend this dinner, including the number of places you would like, so that we can confirm with the venue. Email president@hsrca.com. Tickets will be $60 a head and include a buffet dinner.

Joining our celebration of Kevin Bartlett, we look forward to the Group S enduro, a feature for Formula Ford, and of course events for all historic classes (subject to minimum entries). Garages and carports will be allocated in order of entries received.

Entries are now open on the Motorsport Australia Member Portal. We have kept our entry and garage fees at the same level as recent events, despite our increased costs, and hope that all groups will support this event and send off 2024 with a magic Summer Festival. And then look forward to 2025, when we will have another great circuit to again conduct historic racing – Back to Goulburn on 1-2 February 2025.

Wayne Wilson,
President, HSRCA