Club Track Days

The Mazda MX-5 Club of NSW arranges track days at Sydney Motorsport Park Amaroo Circuit (South), Pheasant Wood and occasionally at Winton Raceway in Victoria. We will be returning to One Raceway (formerly Wakefield Park Raceway) in 2025.

Club track days are mostly held on a Sunday (sometimes Saturday or Monday), for the "weekend racers". The events are organised so that there are a limited number of cars on track during each run, and those cars and drivers are selected to have similar lap times and/or driver experience.

For 2024, the club track days will include the same sprint competition we have always had, plus a separate regularity competition. Drivers can enter for either the sprint or the regularity, but not both.

In the sprint competition, drivers are competing against the clock to be fastest in their class, while the regularity drivers are trying to achieve lap times as close as possible to an individual target time which they have set. The result of a regularity competition is more dependent on the skill of the drivers than the speed of their cars.

Racing against other cars is strictly forbidden.

Newcomers are always welcome at our track days. You can have as much fun in a standard road car as those with dedicated race MX-5s. There is always a sprint session for first timers where experienced drivers will advise you.

2024 Club Track Days

This season will run for 12 months from January to December 2024. One drop-round is excluded from the championship point score.

Results from all club track days are HERE.

Motorsport Championship - Sprint

Trophies are awarded to members of the Mazda MX-5 Club of NSW only, based on performances recorded during a Competition Year, from Jan to Dec. Trophies in each sprint Vehicle Class are awarded for the annual point score whereby points will be awarded at each event in the sprint classes.

Results in all Club track days are counted towards the annual point score (including Interstate Challenge rounds in Victoria), except that each driver needs to drop one round. Drivers must compete in a sprint class at a minimum of two rounds in a competition year to qualify for an award. The Club reserves the right to add other awards at its discretion.

Motorsport Championship - Regularity

Trophies are awarded to members of the Mazda MX-5 Club of NSW only, based on results recorded during a Competition Year, from Jan to Dec. Trophies are awarded for the Regularity annual point score which is based on the points awarded at each event for placings in the Regularity class. Rules for the regularity competition and championship can be found in the Regularity Championship Rules.

Results in all Club track days are counted towards the annual point score (other than Interstate Challenge rounds in Victoria), except that each driver needs to drop one round. Drivers must compete in the Regularity class at a minimum of two rounds in a competition year to qualify for an award. The Club reserves the right to add other awards at its discretion.

Regularity competitors at a track day will have one practice session, and a number of regularity sessions called "trials". The regularity drivers must nominate their target time after the practice session and before the first competition session. Each regularity session will be twice as long as a sprint session, but there will be half the number of regularity sessions. The number of trials at and event will be chosen to have equivalent track time available to both sprint and regularity competitors at that event.

What you need at an MX-5 Club track day:

• Helmet (must be appropriate Car/Motorcycle Helmet with stickers certifying it meets Australian Standard:- Helmet- AS1698, Goggles/Visor- AS1609).
• Non-synthetic clothing – neck-wrist-ankle
• Non-synthetic footwear
• Blue triangle, 150mm on each side mounted to indicate the battery location.
• Motorsport Australia Speed licence or above. (AASA licence is not accepted).
• Fire extinguisher to Motorsport Australia requirements that is fitted within reach of the driver.
• Secondary method of securing the bonnet. Road-registered cars fitted with the original manufacturers two stage bonnet locking system is considered as having two securing systems.
• All forward facing glass lenses to be completely covered by a protective film. For standard MX-5s, this only affects the headlights on NA models.
• Tow Hooks or a similar devices fitted front & rear which are easily visible, to allow for the speedy removal of the vehicle from a "sand trap"

Always check the Supplementary Regulations for each event for full details of all requirements.