21 April 2025
Motorsport
Vehicle Recovery
21 Apr 2025
Motorsport
Vehicle Recovery
Australian Motorsport Recovery started at the 2000 Melbourne F1 GP. After putting our name down on a waiting list to recover damaged open wheeled cars on the track and take them back to their respective pits. The first year was interesting and learned a lot. This is the first year we attended.
Whilst attending the first year I was invited to do recovery at more events. They had asked me to do car recovery at Sandown, Calder, Winton, and Phillip Island. They neede a crane truck to assist the tilt trays to pick up the open wheeler category as they are easier and less extra damage if they are picked up off the track. So after consideration I decided to do all the rounds.
At we found you could be picking up any types of cars. This car a V8 Supercar was on top of the fence so neede to be lifted down.
I continued doing as many race meetings as I could find time to attend. It did get harder as I became busier and had less available time to spare. Most years I would do the the Melbourne GP. Dad became interested and I had a driver Daryl who would volunteer to do some meetings. I met so many great volunteers along the way who spend a lot of their time at Motorsport events. Motorsport Australia are always looking for volunteers should you be wanting to join.
At one Motorsport round I heard that due to this accident that a marshal was injured overseas Porsche was looking into making a lifting bar that connects in the roll cage in all GT3 cars. This would be a fully engineered and would be certified to the cars. Thiis would help prevent this ever happening again.
I contacted Porsche Cars Australia Motorsport to see if they would be available to purchase. After a long period they said yes they could put me in touch with them to organise the purchase of one.
All the Late model Porsche GT3 cars have the lifting points already in the roof under a special perforated round sticker. The pins tear the sticker and lock into the roll cage. As the photo shows
There are many benefits to lifting the cars rather than dragging on a tilt tray truck. If the car has a flat tyre and is un damaged some time they sustain extra damage in the recovery process.
As you can see how the cars are evenly balanced when un damaged
Come aboard with Barry as an example of a weekend recovering damaged race cars
Barry and Sid unloading at scrutineering
Go along for a Porsch recovery
Some Porsche recovery
Crawler Crane Operator
1986 Started off working at New Oakliegh Motors as a new car Detailer. Then 1987 completed becoming a flying instructor course at Civil Flying School Moorabbin. In 1991 worked at Dial a Transport as a truck driver. Then in 1994 I purchased a truck and worked as a subcontractor for Westfi, Amerind then Glen Cameron’s Transport. In 2000 purchased a crane truck and started Powerful Crane Trucks built that up and was sold in 2017. In 2018 started Compact Crawler Cranes
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