Mogg lined up in his former Walkinshaw VL Commodore in the Group A-C category, which represents the period 1973 to 1984.

The cars racing are not replicas, they are the actual vehicles raced in these years, and many of them still carry the names of sponsors and drivers now long gone from motor racing.

Mogg’s Commodore was actually campaigned by Win Percy and Neil Crompton for HRT.

It was the last time the historic category will race at the Oran Park set up as it is soon to be turned into a housing development, something Mogg says is sad.

“It was sad in some ways, I really enjoy Oran Park as a circuit, it is a real driver’s track no doubt about it,” he said.

“It will be a shame not to be racing there again.”

In a solid weekend Mogg qualified his Commodore in second position.

“I was pretty happy with that considering we didn’t put any new rubber on the car for the meeting,” he said.

“We made the decision to run the whole weekend on old tyres and that did hurt us, in this category you do need fresh tyres to be competitive.

“But at $2500 to kit the car out for the weekend we decided it was better to save our money.”

Race one was cut short to just three laps and Mogg drove well to finish third.

“Three laps doesn’t give you much time to settle in,” he said.

Starting from position three in the second race on Sunday, Mogg really started to feel the effects of his tyres and dropped to fifth from the start.

He fought his way back through the five-lap event and eventually finished third.

“It was a bit disappointing, we simply didn’t have the grip of the two front cars,” he said.

The VL also looked a bit worse for wear after the race with a bit of paint swapping as Mogg raced door handle to door handle with another competitor through the first two twisting turns.

Starting the final nine-lap event from third he again slipped to fifth off the start as his tyres deteriorated.