F E A T U R I N G I M P R O V E D P R O D U C T I O N H Q H O L D E N S S P O R T S S E D A N S M A Z D A R X 8 C U P H I S T O R I C T O U R I N G C A R S S U P E R K A R T S NSW Motor Racing Championships Round 1 2 9 F E B - 1 M A R C H NSW Motor Racing Championships Dean appearance as part of a Motorsport Australia Chapman round for the first time. Operations Manager All these categories will be joined on Sunday Wakefield Park Motorsport by the Superkarts. Welcome to Wakefield Park for the opening A big thank you to our Events Administration round of the Motorsport Australia NSW Motor Officer, Ruth Walsh, who will now be the Racing Championships. main point of contact for all Wakefield Park- promoted race meetings - you can read more This weekend, we have a good assortment of from Ruth in the following pages. tin-top categories on the program; the Holden brand may be dead at the end of this year, but As always, I’d also like to acknowledge the the venerable HQ Holdens live on, and have tireless efforts of all of our officials, as well as attracted a quality field this weekend which our hard-working team of office personnel and includes several former champions. maintenance crew. We also have Improved Production Over I hope you enjoy your weekend at Wakefield and Under 2 Litre, the exciting and powerful Park and look forward to seeing you again Sports Sedans and Group N Historic Touring soon! Cars, while one of the fastest-growing one- make series, the Mazda RX8 Cup, makes its Dean Publisher: Chequered Contents Flag Media Officials ...............................................................4 Editor: Lachlan Mansell Schedule.............................................................6 Images: Riccardo Benv- Event preview .....................................................8 enuti, Scott Walker, Darryl Fernance Sports Sedans ....................................................10 Feedback: Email HQ Holdens ........................................................11 [email protected] Mazda RX8 Cup .................................................12 Historic Touring Cars ..........................................13 Improved Production Over 2 Litre.......................14 Improved Production Under 2 Litre.....................15 Superkarts ..........................................................16 Lap records.........................................................18 Circuit map .........................................................19 2020 Motorsport Australia NSW Motor Racing Championship Rd1 3 Officials of the Meeting Chief Steward John Buckley Stewards Robert O’Toole, Peter Lambie Event Director Dean Chapman Clerk of Course Nick Goring Assistant Clerk of Course Kate Epplestun Secretary of the Meeting Ruth Walsh Chief Timekeeper Scott Campbell Chief Scrutineer Lance Smith Deputy Scrutineer Bill Jones Judges of Fact - Start/Finish Scott Campbell, Nick Goring, Kate Eppelstun, Glenn Nichols Judge of Fact - Noise James Osmond Judge of Fact - Pit lane speed Scott Campbell, Nick Goring, Kate Eppelstun, Mark Bushell Chief Flag Marshall Glenn Nichols Medical Team Ambulance Service Australia 4 2020 Motorsport Australia NSW Motor Racing Championship Rd1 Wakefield Park is proudly sponsored by: 2020 Motorsport Australia NSW Motor Racing Championship Rd1 5 Event Schedule Saturday, 29 February Time Category Session Duration 9:00 Sports Sedans Practice 10 mins Improved Production Under 2 Litre Practice 10 mins HQ Holdens Practice 10 mins Improved Production Over 2 Litre Practice 10 mins RX8 Cup Practice 10 mins Historic Touring Cars Practice 10 mins Sports Sedans Qualifying 15 Mins Improved Production Under 2 Litre Qualifying 15 Mins HQ Holdens Qualifying 15 Mins Improved Production Over 2 Litre Qualifying 15 Mins RX8 Cup Qualifying 15 mins Historic Touring Cars Qualifying 15 mins Lunch 30 mins Sports Sedans Race 1 12 Laps Improved Production Under 2 Litre Race 1 8 Laps HQ Holdens Race 1 10 Laps Improved Production Over 2 Litre Race 1 8 Laps RX8 Cup Race 1 10 Laps Historic Touring Cars Race 1 7 Laps Improved Production Under 2 Litre Race 2 10 Laps RX8 Cup Race 2 12 Laps Improved Production Over 2 Litre Race 2 10 Laps HQ Holdens Fundraiser Passenger Laps 30 mins Sunday, 1 March Time Category Session Duration 9:00 Superkarts Practice 10 mins Sports Sedans Race 2 12 laps Superkarts Qualifying 15 mins Improved Production Under 2 Litre Race 3 12 laps HQ Holdens Race 2 12 Laps Superkarts Race 1 8 laps Improved Production Over 2 Litre Race 3 12 laps RX8 CUP Race 3 10 laps Historic Touring Cars Race 2 7 Laps Sports Sedans Race 3 14 laps Lunch 30 mins Superkarts Race 2 10 Laps Improved Production Under 2 Litre Race 4 14 Laps HQ Holdens Race 3 14 laps Historic Touring Cars Race 3 14 Laps Improved Production Over 2 Litre Race 4 14 laps Superkarts Race 3 12 Laps RX8 CUP Race 4 14 Laps Historic Touring Cars Race 4 7 Laps Superkarts Race 4 14 Laps 6 2020 Motorsport Australia NSW Motor Racing Championship Rd1 From the Race Secretary Ruth with in terms of scheduling, garage Walsh allocations or anything I can do to make sure your race weekend experience is as Events Administration Officer enjoyable as possible, please don’t hesitate Wakefield Park Motorsport to get in touch with me. Hi everyone! For all Wakefield Park competitors, make sure you LIKE the Wakefield Park Race Hope you’re all excited for this weekend’s Secretary page (separate from the main race meeting, which is our first major Wakefield Park page), as I will be using event under the new Motorsport Australia this to post information about upcoming branding. events, including links to online entry forms, regulations and other essential things you I’m back for another season as the Events need to know. Administration Officer here at Wakefield Park, which means I’ll also be the race Have a fun weekend, and I look forward to secretary and the direct point of contact seeing you at the track throughout 2020! for all Wakefield Park-promoted race meetings. Cheers, As always, if there’s anything I can assist Ruth :) 2020 Motorsport Australia NSW Motor Racing Championship Rd1 7 NSW Motor Racing Championships Round 1 Event Preview Something Old, Something New This weekend’s opening Motorsport Historic Touring Car Series is the Mazda Australia state championship round RX8 Cup, which makes its first appearance includes a mixture of old and new cars as a on the Motorsport Australia State and categories. Championship program. At the oldest end of the scale, the Historic With last year’s champion Aaron Prosser Touring Cars will stage the opening round not defending his title, the field of potential of their 2020 championship as part of the contenders is wide open, with two of last event. The Wakefield Park track lends itself year’s big improvers - Jake Lougher and well to entertainment, with the relatively Lachlan O’Hara - among the favourites. short main straight allowing the smaller and less powerful, but more nimble cars Other contenders are likely to include to challenge the high-capacity, high- speedy Victorian Matt Butters and the horsepower V8 machines. consistent Ben Silvestro, while Jackson Noakes makes his debut in the category Driving his Ford Mustang, experienced after a high level of success in the Excel production car and historic racer David Racing Series. Stone will come into the weekend as the driver to beat; also entered in a Mustang is Other debutants in the category include Ben Wilkinson, while Kumho V8 Touring Car Jack Pennacchia, Ryan Gorton and Mark regular Jason Foley is entered in an XY GT Alder, while Andrew O’Keeffe, Aidan Riley, Falcon, as is Chris O’Brien. brothers Lachlan and Alex Cook return to the series, as does female racer Maisie Flying the flag for the smaller cars are Jerry Place after a crash at Sydney Motorsport Lenstra (Ford Cortina) and David Gray (Mini Park last year. Cooper S). The Improved Production field has been At the opposite end of the scale to the divided into categories for Over and Under 2 8 2020 Motorsport Australia NSW Motor Racing Championship Rd1 Litre cars; the Over 2 Litre division includes John Baxter and Scott Walker will both be some familiar faces like David Worrell fast, Luke Harrison has been a big improver (Commodore) and Stig Richards (Mazda in recent seasons, and another notable RX7) but also a number of newcomers. addition to the field is Layton Crambrook, a former series champion who achieved The main contenders in the Under 2 Litre success in other categories including the V8 field include Kurt Macready (Nissan Silvia) Utes Series. and the experienced Justin McClintock (Honda Civic), while former champion Ryan The yellow Camaros of Steven Lacey Jagger should also be fast in his Holden and Birol Cetin will resume hostilities in Barina. Long-time Improved Production the opening NSW Sports Sedans round; racing brothers Mark (Renault Clio) and Phil their closest challenger looks to be Grant (Honda Integra) Larmour are on the grid, Doulman in his Falcon while the Trans Am as are Craig Wildridge (Ford Escort) and Corvette of Stuart Inwood will also be fast, Graham Bohm (Honda Civic). as will the ex-HRT VZ Commodore V8 Supercar of Warren Millett. While the Holden brand may depart the Australian marketplace at the end of the In Superkarts, the outright front-runners will year, a quality field of 20 HQ Holdens be the 250cc National Class entries of John shows there is plenty of life left in the long- Dunn and Tony Moit; in the 125cc Gearbox standing racing category yet. Class, Mark Robin and Aaron Cogger will be the primary contenders, while the 125cc Multiple champion Brett Osborn will enter Non-Gearbox Class is shaping up to be the weekend as the favourite, but he will no closely fought between Mark Vickers, Alan doubt be seriously challenged by brothers Dodge and Anthony Dykstra.