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BMH (COMIC BOOK ) RACING AT PHILLIP IS
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THE
COMIC BOOK SPECIAL
The BMH in its initial
guise had only raced at the Caversham Motor Raceway and the Northam
Street Circuits of 1955 and 1956. After a return to racing at
Barbagallo Raceway in Perth the BMH has raced at many other circuits
and went interstate to Victoria in 2008 to compete in the Phillip Is
Classic at the Grand Prix circuit Phillip Is. on its first run it
proved to be massively over geared for the circuit utilizing a 3.36
ratio rear axle, this was changed to a 3.55 unit for the 2009 event and
proved very successful with the car reaching its 6000rpm upper limit
entering turn one at 130MPH. Here is some video footage of both
the events and selected photographs of the car at Phillip Is.
The 2009 visit started with a disaster of having the tail plane of the
car fail in transport. This severely damaged the very thin alloy body
which ultimately had to be replaced, the car was hastily repaired by
volunteers visiting from Western Australia and it was all up and fixed
in no time ready for racing
Read our two magazine articles written of the occasion
HURRY HURRY WAIT THE 2008 STORY
THE WORLDS FASTEST CARS IN ACTION THE 2009 STORY
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