Following a refreshing summer break, the red lights went out on Heritage Touring Cars’ 2026 season at the Phillip Island Penrite 100 Classic over March 14 and 15. We brought two strong grids out for the weekend, unleashing more than 40 historic Australian touring cars on the iconic seaside circuit.
Let’s begin our recap with a look back at the HTC race grid, featuring Groups C & A and the newly recognised Group 3A and 3B.
The start of Sunday morning’s race three
Heritage Touring Cars went to One Raceway over the last weekend in August, to take part in the first outing of Class Wars for under three-litre Group C & A cars at the 2025 HSRCA Spring Festival.
Photos kindly provided by Will Tandy of Chicane Flicks
Over the first weekend in August, Heritage Touring Cars joined in the VHRR’s 2025 Winton Festival of Speed to celebrate the 40th anniversary of Group A and contest round four of our 2025 series.
Heritage Touring Cars was proud to be a feature category of the HSRCA’s 2025 Sydney Classic over the King’s Birthday long weekend June 7 & 8, where we hosted round 3 of our 2025 series.
Images kindly supplied by Pete Trapnell of Trapnell Creations // www.trapnellcreations.com We’re back from the Historic Racing Car Club Queensland’s Autumn Classic Speedfest, which ran over the 10th & 11th of May, 2025, and it’s time to wrap up a magic weekend of touring car racing at Morgan Park. The Heritage Touring Cars grid arrived …
Photos kindly provided by Will Tandy of Chicane Flicks The 2025 Heritage Touring Cars season kicked off at the Phillip Island Classic Festival of Motorsport over March 6 – 9, bringing close to 50 historic Australian touring cars to the iconic Victorian circuit across race and sprint categories. Jonathon Webb in the 1992 Caltex Sierra …
After an incident packed round 1 at the Phillip Island Classic in March, it was very pleasing to see such a strong entry for round 2 at the HRCC’s Autumn Historic Warwick over May 12 – 14, 2023. 25 cars were entered for the event, which is just one short of our all-time record. Of course, nearly all of the Queensland-based competitors were there, and as usual we had strong support from our NSW friends and kudos to Nev Butler who made a solo trek all the way from Melbourne with his 2-litre Escort.
Images thanks to Brent Murray of At Speed Images
The 34th Phillip Island Classic historic race meeting hosted the opening round of our 2023 season in great style over the 10th to the 12th of March, 2023.
34 Group C & A cars will head to the Phillip Island Classic over March 9-12 to open our 2023 season with two Bathurst champions headlining the pack.
Images kindly provided by Craig King
Over the Fathers’ Day weekend, September 3 & 4, 2022, we rolled out onto Sydney Motorsport Park to take part in the ARDC SUPER70.