QRDA - Queensland Racing Drivers Association Inc.

03/04/2026

Before you know it we'll be back at the track! How many more members will emerge from the garage for Round 3 after long Christmas rebuilds?

Coming up at the next round:

Sports & Racing Cars Championship

Production Sports Cars Championship

Formula Ford 1600 Championship

Formula Vee Championship

Plus many more categories from the Touring Car ranks.

All the Sports Cars and the Racing Cars categories will be back at Warwick soon, with State Championship racing returning for Round 3 at the end of May as part of Morgan Park Raceway’s Grand Slam series of events.

Formula Vee, Formula Ford 1600, combined Prototype Sports Cars and open wheel Racing Cars, and ProdSports Production Sports Cars, they'll all be there.

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Morgan Park Raceway
Motorsport Australia
QRDA - Queensland Racing Drivers Association Inc.

Production Sports Car Racing Association of Queensland

Formula Vee Queensland

QLD Sportscar Championship

01/04/2026

QRDA inFOCUS | Angus Baills, driver of the number 17 Spectrum 014 Ford in multiple state and category-based championships in 2026.

This year Angus has backing from Highfields Mechanical, Petronas Syntium and Cool Drive to allow a significantly expanded program and a better shot at the motorsport ladder for emerging talent. In Queensland we will see him in the Spectrum, a Formula Ford that's been acquired partly as a development tool for another competition but also to tackle Queensland's State Racing scene at the same time.

Renowned talent scouts Tim Macrow Racing are joining forces with young Baills for this year's AU4 Championship for Formula 4-spec racing cars, and it's with one eye on that competition that leads to Angus stepping up from local Series X3 Excel racing into the Formula Ford world. If you can drive a Formula Ford to the front, you can drive anything after all. After 2 years of Excel racing he quickly became a front runner, placing 3rd in the 2025 championship and earning enough praise to be handed the keys to a MARC Mustang for a test day, a car very comparable but even faster than current generation Australian Supercars Championship cars. Excels also provided the opportunity for him to gain valuable seat time at Bathurst, a circuit which is public road most of the year and very hard to access for competitive running.

When it comes to the Formula Ford transition it's definitely not like the Excel, there's a lot has been learned already but there's an awful lot more left to learn, but he's loving the challenge. Showing that motorsport is a great educator for life outside of the car, Angus has come out of his shell and shaken off any shyness, now happily presenting himself and his sponsors across social media and in person like he's been doing it his whole life. That's only going to stand him in good stead as the pressures of each higher level series present themselves in years to come ~ and we're looking forward to cheering him along on that journey.

For the immediate future the AU4 campaign will see him racing interstate in that wings and slicks category, while locally we will see him in action at the remaining rounds of the QCRSC competing for Formula Ford Australia's local Queensland Championship. Good luck Angus Baills with the road ahead.

Angus Baills Racing
Motorsport Australia
QLD Formula Ford
Spectrum Racing Cars

31/03/2026

Say hello to Jordan Spiteri, coming to stir up our other Series X3 members 😁

How good does the Rupert's Bar and Grill number triple 7 look?

We'll catch up with Jordan in more detail at future rounds, there's 4 more left for Series X3 spread equally between Morgan Park Raceway and Queensland Raceway.

29/03/2026

Lochlan has joined us this year and has also moved from Formula Vee to a National-Spec Formula Ford.

Last weekend was his first event in the car, after an engine freshen up kept him from Round 1.

Round 2 presented a lot of challenges, but also a lot of learning from a lot of track time. Qualifying there was a bit of a gap to leader Angus Baills, but very quickly once racing was underway lap times became close.

Looking forward to what this kid can do in coming events as he and team make more progress.

The round was also the debut for a fresh livery for LR Racing, what do you think of the number 4 Spectrum's new look?

29/03/2026

Bringing more blue! Welcome aboard Matt Dicinoski and Yamuna Sternbeck in their red Van Diemen and purple Spectrum Formula Ford 1600s. Yamuna is the first lady to win a Formula Ford State Round outright in Australia, while Matt has been a constant front runner each year in the Formula Ford 1600 Nationals.

The Es**rt is Geoff Gillespie's out having fun in the sun, bringing the third Ford blue badge to this quartet.

Rounding things out in Subaru blue is Gary Morgan with the supercharged BRZ, battling against a turbo Datsun 1600 all weekend so far.

We're enjoying Morgan Park Raceway as we prepare for the final round of racing for the weekend.

28/03/2026

We get to support some drivers who support us, but who also get to hit the track this weekend in some of the coolest race cars.

We've got George's BMW based on the factory body and fitted with a matching howling BMW inline 6.

Then there's Coxy's spaceframe, Dodge V8 front-mid mounted and cloaked in that unmistakable Saab body.

Simon Bedford is back in his Dallara fresh from a trip to Sydney Motorsport Park; you want carbon fibre... it's got it!

Rounding out our quartet, Aiden Schweikert put his Van Diemen on pole position for Formula Ford 1600. The starts have proven tricky, resulting in a couple of charge backs on Saturday.

Everyone is right for tomorrow morning and set for another great day of racing at Morgan Park Raceway

28/03/2026

At it again, Bruce Cook heads the Improved Production Cars field, and at the same time shows his little turbocharged terrier can stick it to a Sports Sedan or two.

Qualifying and two races done, two more races on Sunday to go.

28/03/2026

Simon McLean out pedalling his MX-5 in Qualifying this morning at Morgan Park Raceway. One of our experts in consistent finishing and having fun.

The Mazda platform is one of a handful of go-to cars for starting out in ProdSports racing, either buying a previously raced example or building up your own car these have endless off the shelf performance parts available and plenty of brand specialists to assist.

27/03/2026

Good morning race fans, let's get the cheer squad up and firing for our crew at Morgan Park Raceway this weekend.

We've had some new members apply as well, missing from the graphic but we'll get some info up for them as we go. The Join form has an issue at the 'are you a robot' question, so only the desktop Join button is available, but you can DM the page if you want to join from the track this weekend and Tony Chapman will come and find you to sort it out.

26/03/2026

26/03/2026

As we head into the weekend for Round 2 at Morgan Park Raceway it's Bruce Cook verses Gary Morgan at the top of the club championship points. Game on.

Improved Production Es**rt turbo vs Sports Sedan BRZ supercharged.

Also doing very well in his class, and scoring a high points average, is Simon McLean in his ProdSports MX5, sitting slightly behind the other two but still very much in the hunt and more than capable of maintaining a high average all year long..

If you want to join the QRDA"s club championship and be credited with full-year points time is running out. Entering is easy, simply join the QRDA. Full-year points credit finishes up on Monday night after the second round though, which is this weekend! If it helps, flag Tony Chapman down on the weekend as he does the rounds and he can process applications manually too.

Points as they stand though are now available in the downloads section.

18/03/2026

Back this year and with the number 1 on the door is Seth Mathie, snapped at Round 1 with lights ablaze and on the comeback trail after being clean bowled by accident during Sunday's close contest.

HQs are lined up for Rounds 1 through 4 of QCRSC, then comes a planned break at Round 5 to allow people to head to WA for the annual HQ Holden Nationals, before returning for QCRSC Round 6 as their final event for the year in November at Morgan Park Raceway.