LACHLAN Harburg has a trolley jack under the rear of the RSR wrestling the massive 315/650/R17 tyres off after track testing for the weekend’s race meet at QR. He’s had a little work done on the engine that’s added an extra 30 horses and shaved 2 seconds off his lap time. Lachlan is a weekend racer - and numbers like that mean something. The V8’s scream past as we begin to chat.
“I don’t know if a flat 6 is really welcome here.” The RSR was part of a two-car team with Peter Harburg and Wayne Park in the mid 90’s. Wayne won the Porsche Cup Championship in ‘94 with the RSR. “It had a bit more of a gentlemen’s racer vibe to it back then, a few more grey hairs, but great competitive racing.” The Porsche Cup was a support category for the V8 Super Cars and the Australian GP. Come the millennium, the Porsche Cup ran to a demise and was replaced by Carrera Cup.
That was the end of the road for the RSR. It was put into storage in around 2002. “I have great memories of this car from when I was younger. The sounds of these things starting up as a 5-year- old was absolutely terrifying.” “When you’re that age, your Dad’s your hero when he is racing cars like this - I just wanted to be involved as much as I could. I’d jump into the passenger space just to hitch a ride down to the dummy grid with him.
First gear was enough to get a buzz for an eight-year-old, it’s a very cool thing to be able to re-live that - but now I’m in the driver’s seat.” “That type of exposure to the race environment form such a young age - it kind of gets imprinted in your DNA. That’s all you ever think about. I was never going to do anything else.
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