One of the largest and best grids of high performance 5 litre cars ever seen at the Phillip Island Classic –‘Festival of Motorsport’ will make for highly competitive racing over the long weekend 7 – 9 March, 2025.
18 year old Gippsland’s Bailey Collins who has cut his teeth in go carts and has run in Formula Ford for the last three years, will debut in his father’s Jack Daniels Supercar.
The youngest competitor in the 5 litre racing at Phillip Island will be 15 year old Ryan Wyhoon, son of Australian Motorsport identity, Terry Wyhoon, one of the most respected owner/team principals in pit lane in the Supercar development category.
Overall there will be more than thirty cars in the 5 litre class including one car from Australian Drag Racing Champion Peter Xibberas’s PremAir Racing team, the ex-Bob Jane Group C Commodore racing in C & A. Current Australian Professional Supercar driver Thomas Randal from the Tickford Racing team will also be in the field driving a 1972 Mach 722 and Thomas comes with an impressive brace of titles including Australian Formula Ford and Toyota Racing Series and Super2 plus a breakthrough 5th in the 2024 Supercar Championship.
The Formula Ford racing will be equally competitive with some of Australia’s fastest drivers including Jonathan Miles driving a Van Diemen RF89, Alex Davison, son of ex racing car champion Richard Davison, John Blanchard, owner of the Blanchard Racing Team, engineer and race car designer Malcolm Oastler driving Formula Ford and Ralt RT1 plus key sponsor Dean Koutsoumidis of Equity-One. Andy Newall UK based VHRR Ambassador and Professional European driver will drive the Cooldrive Formula Ford competing against Australia’s fastest and he will also drive Bob Harborow’s McLaren M6B CANAM Sports Car.
Jonathan Webb, past Bathurst winner, will drive, one of the fastest Group A cars in Australia, the Ford Sierra in C & A and his father Steve Webb, will drive the Elfin 600 Repco Brabham in Q & R Sports.
Guido Belgiorno-Nettis will race the famous 1985 Ferrari 156/85 against perhaps the fastest F5000 in Australia with Paul Zazryn in the Lola T332 racing in Q & R.
Peter Harburg will drive the amazing Porsche 917-30 in regularity earlier in the event with Alex Davison driving it on the Sunday in the 20 minute regularity.
This family friendly event has something for everyone with highly skilled international competitors racing against some of Australia’s fastest cars and drivers plus more than 1,000 cars on display over the weekend.