Leyburn Motor Sprints

US CLIMB A DREAM CHALLENGE FOR SPRINTS DRIVER

ONE of the stalwarts of historic motorsport in Queensland will enjoy a dream preparation for the annual Leyburn Sprints in August when he contests the world-famous Pikes Peak hillclimb in Colorado. Leyburn Sprints founder and regular competitor Mike Collins will be one of just a handful of internationals in a field of 99 car drivers and 102 motorcycle riders in the US event on 8 July, six weeks before the 17th Leyburn Sprints.

FIRST-TIME ENTRANT RACES TO LEYBURN SPRINTS OUTRIGHT VICTORY

MEDIA RELEASE || Tuesday 30 August 2011

FIRST-time entrant Warwick Hutchinson has taken out the 2011 Leyburn Sprints outright trophy on the Darling Downs last weekend.

Hutchinson set a fastest time around the 1.1 km street course of 47.6584 sec. on the sixth of seven runs in his self-developed Van Diemen RF92-Rotary.

He eclipsed the defending champion and multiple Leyburn winner Ray Vandersee and his Skelta G-Force sports car by almost two seconds.

Grant Watson, the 2010 runner-up, came home third on Sunday in a Prosport Eclipse sports car.

PIKE’S PEAK MUSTANG DROPS INTO LEYBURN SPRINTS FROM A GREAT HEIGHT

MEDIA RELEASE || Saturday 27 August 2011

A LAST-minute entry for the Leyburn Sprints has come down literally from a great height – one of the highest motorsport tracks in the world – to compete in the 16th annual time trials starting today on the Darling Downs.

Driver Jim Hodgson from Burpengary near Brisbane will race a Ford Mustang in which he contested the famous Pike’s Peak International Hillclimb in Colorado in June.

The 156-turn, 20 kilometre course on gravel and tarmac surfaces has its finish line at 4300 metres.

40-YEAR-OLD DATSUN BEATS HI-TECH RIVALS ON DAY ONE OF LEYBURN SPRINTS

MEDIA RELEASE || Saturday 27 August 2011

A 40-YEAR-old Datsun has beaten a string of modern, hi-tech competitors to fastest time on the first day of the 16th annual Leyburn Sprints on the Darling Downs today.

Rain slowed the early runs for 210 competitors on the 1.1 kilometre closed street track, but on the fourth and last run of the day on a dry, sunny track Gold Coast driver John Siddins blitzed the field with a time of 55.2775 seconds.