Photos for the 2009 Event are now available at this link, Many thanks to Iain Curry

 

Lobethal Grand Carnival 2009

PARKING: Please refer to the MAP OF TRACK.

FREE Parking is available at (C) Kayannie Corner (just before the turnoff from Onkaparinga Valley Road to Lobethal) and (B) Hirthes Road/Mt Torrens Hairpin Corner.

Parking for $5 per car is available at (A) the Lobethal Sports and Recreational Grounds (off Woodside Road via Jeffrey Street and Onkaparinga Road).

Any other parking is subject to normal road rules and conditions and parking signage or restrictions imposed. We also ask that spectators respect driveways and private property access and take all due care to park responsibly.

ROAD CLOSURES: The Lobethal Circuit comprising Onkaparinga Road (from Kayannie Corner to Mt Torrens Hairpin including Charleston), the Woodside Road from Kayannie Corner into Lobethal, the Main Street of Lobethal and the Lobethal to Mount Torrens Road from Lobethal to the Mt Torrens Hairpin (a total of 14km) is closed to general traffic from 12:30 to 4:30 pm on each of Saturday October 3 and Sunday October 4.

For DETOUR information, please consult the ROAD CLOSURES chapter.

DETOURS and ACCESS to the event. If you should reach a manned detour and wish to get to the event, please ask the detour attendant for directions.

MERCHANDISE: Official Event Programmes will be on sale at the Event Merchandise Points for $5 each. Merchandise Stalls are located in the Main Street in front of the Lutheran Church (48 Main St), at the Motorbike and Exotic Pits,

(5 Main Street) and at the Kayannie Corner (Onkaparinga Valley & Woodside Road intersections).

PIT ACCESS:

Due to the effects of recent severe rains, the pits have been modified and will be at two locations.

Historic Racing Cars at the Lutheran Church and School complex, rear 48 Main Street, Lobethal. Admission to view the cars will be charged at $5 per head. Children under 12 free. Viewing from 9am on Saturday and 11am on Sunday.

Historic Motorbikes, Exotic & Touring Cars and the Clipsal 500 sponsored Solar Challenge display will be located at the car park adjacent Bennetts Variety Store at 5 Main Street, just past the Bierhaus. Again admission will be $5 (children under 12) and area will be open from 9am each day.

CATERING: food and drink available in Main Street, Lobethal.

 

HISTORIC RACING returns to Lobethal.

For students of Australia's motor racing past, for the handful of surviving drivers and riders, and for those who were there, as crew, as spectators, as awestruck youngsters; the word "Lobethal" is at once synonomous with magnificent racing machines, daunting speeds on a sealed and hugely challenging circuit of more than eight miles, and heroic measures of human bravery, inspired performance and epic endurance.

Nestled in the Adelaide Hills, less than an hour east of Adelaide, Lobethal is set for a serious re-enactment of its glory days, sixty years after the last races of 1948 and a timely seventy years after Lobethal Carnivals Ltd first recruited the services of a fledgling Sporting Car Club of S.A. and the Motor Cycle Club of S.A. to stage car and motor cycle races in 1938.

Much has been written of Lobethal, by those who saw it, those who came to race, to spy even! And by those who have imagined it, researched it, driven it. A wealth of imagery, moving and printed remains; a select number of cars and bikes exists, the winner of the 1939 Australian Grand Prix, Allan Tomlinson is still very much in our midst and best of all, the fabled circuit of 47 bends, a ribbon of road so frighteningly fast, so steeped in mystery, so revered that it was once acclaimed by no less than multiple Australian Grand Prix winner, Doug Whiteford, as the greatest racing circuit in Australia, remains in its entirety.

It is upon this proud heritage, "Lobethal Grand Carnival" will pay homage to the unique history of events past.

PATRON:
Allan Tomlinson, 1939 AGP winner

INTERNATIONAL AMBASSADORS:
Vern Schuppan (cars)
Jeremy Burgess (bikes)

 

 

 

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