Crowds roar at Geelong Revival Motoring Festival

GEELONG Waterfront was packed with car enthusiasts last weekend as the Geelong Revival Motoring Festival returned to the region.

Running from November 22 until 24, the event featured the Hotwheels stunt team, Quarter Mile Sprints, Classic Motorshow, amusement rides and more.

Despite hot conditions on the Saturday, followed by wet and windy weather on Sunday, festival goers still turned out in large numbers.

Event secretary Chris Sager said the Saturday was enormous in terms of attendees and the sound of the people was incredible.

“There were crowd sizes I’ve never seen before and that was extending across Steam Packet at Eastern Beach in the public zones, as well as the paid area of the pits and the free area of the hill, facing out across the beach.”

Races were made up of 100 cars each day and 40 motorcycles, with around 300 vehicles part of the Motorshow.

Mr Sager said the highlight from the weekend was the top 10 shootout, where the fastest five cars and fastest five motorcycles took on the 400 metre sprint along the curve of Ritchie Boulevard.

“We are the only event in Australia that does a mixed car and motorcycle top 10,” he said.

“We’re handing back and forth between Motorsport Australia and Motorcyclying Australia and each vehicle leaving is managed by a different authorising body.

“The coordination it takes is incredible and all race officials did it with a smile and then we had this incredible scene at the end of it all where we had all the vehicles arranged according to their times.

“It’s an honour to be able to deliver something like that, that no one gets to see anywhere else.”

Nicholas De Jong took out first place in the shootout, completing the sprint in a time of 10.01 seconds in a Ford Territory, winning the event for the second year in a row.

De Jong also had the fasted outright time on the Saturday where he finished in 9.64 seconds.

The festival will return next year with racing on November 29 and 30.

For the full list of results from across the weekend, head to geelongrevival.com.au