Congress Dinner
Monday 7:00 for 7:30pm, 4 July 2005 - Albert Hall
Inclusive in registration fees
Theme: The Great Race
Dress: Great Race attire or evening dress
Extra tickets may be purchased for non-delegates at $110. Numbers are limited.
Transport will not be required as the venue for the Congress Dinner is within easy walk of most accommodation.
The dinner venue is wheelchair accessible. Please contact the Congress organisers to discuss any specific accessibility requirements.
Theme: The great race
The 1965 movie starring Jack Lemmon, Tony Curtis and Natalie Wood has professional daredevil and white-suited hero, The great Leslie, convincing turn-of-the-century auto makers that a race from New York to Paris will help to promote automobile sales. Leslie’s arch-rival, the moustached and black-attired Professor Fate vows to beat Leslie to the finish in a car of Fate’s own invention.
Tasmania is home to several great races of its own
The Sydney to Hobart yacht race
The Sydney to Hobart yacht race is an ocean racing blue water classic. Starting on Boxing Day in Sydney Harbour, yachts travel 630 nautical miles along some of the world's most notorious rough water and some of Australia's most beautiful coastline to Hobart, the capital of Australia's island state, Tasmania.
Targa Tasmania
Targa Tasmania is an exciting annual international classic … a tarmac rally with competitive stages on closed roads for the best touring, sports and GT cars in the world. Its inaugural year was in April 1992 when Tasmania hosted this distinguished international motoring classic.
The competition concept is drawn directly from the best features of the Mille Miglia, the Coupe des Alpes and the Tour de Corse. However, Targa Tasmania is not a slow motion re-run. It is a genuine "red blooded" motor sport competition. It is also a unique annual opportunity for the owners of sports cars and GTs to drive them the way they were designed to be driven, on some of the most exciting and challenging tarmac roads in the world.
The Evandale Village Fair and National Penny-Farthing Championships
Evandale is in northern Tasmania, about 20km south of Launceston. This annual event is renowned for being the most competitive penny-farthing race in the world.
Planes at Launceston Airport are grounded so that penny farthing enthusiasts can sprint for one mile down the runway.
The Three Peaks Race
The four day non-stop sporting shorthanded sailing and endurance mountain running event around the waterways of the magnificent east coast of Tasmania. It begins at Beauty Point on the Tamar river just north of Launceston and finishes in Hobart on the Derwent River. En-route, teams scale Mt Strzelecki, Mt Freycinet and Mt Wellington and sail past some of Australia’s best coastal scenery.
Longford Road Circuit
Only 20 kms from Launceston, a small country town once boasted the fastest Grand Prix road circuit south of the Equator.
The hawthorn lined lanes around Longford purred to the sound of early automobiles and motor cycles competing in reliability trials. It was all rather genteel and certainly very sociable. Fifty years on however that purr had become an international roar as world champions in Grand Prix racing cars and on works motor bikes raced side by side at 170 miles an hour between those same hedges on a circuit the great Jack Brabham came to describe as "fantastically dangerous".
