Club Trackdays 2018-19 - Rounds 1 to 3

24 November 2018 / Words by Joe Kovacic, Photos by Rob Wilkins

Round 1 - Saturday 18 Aug 2018 SMP Amaroo

A sunny winters day greeted an oversubscribed full field of 75 motorsport competitors for our first round of 2018-19 Club Trackdays at SMP Amaroo South Circuit. A competitive battle has already started to emerge in most classes. Welcome to all 6 of our nervous first timers. Thank you to all my fellow officials for another successful trackday. We managed 7 groups to get 6 runs each. Congratulations to all the drivers on their results as follows.

Class 1 1st Place Keith Monaghan 1:10.84 2nd Place Gregory Unger 1:10.89
Class 2 1st Place Bryan Shedden 1:05.90 2nd Place Mark Virgona 1:09.15
Class 3 1st Place Luke Kovacic 1:05.43 2nd Place Jie Ren 1:05.82
Class 4 1st Place Jamie Martin 1:08.60 2nd Place Chris Veitch 1:10.33
Class 5 1st Place Mat Fraser 1:06.25 2nd Place Matt Tarrant 1:07.46
Class 6 1st Place Dan Szwaj 1:05.42 2nd Place John Karayannis 1:06.10
Class 7 1st Place Andrew Digney 1:05.76 2nd Place Ken Hardy 1:06.95
Class 8 1st Place Josh Fitzgerald 1:05.86 2nd Place Dave Alland 1:09.67
Class 9 1st Place Gus Elias 1:04.41 2nd Place David Phillips 1:05.80
Class 10 1st Place Matt Johnson 1:01.77 2nd Place Russ Maxwell 1:03.00
Class 11 1st Place Keith Bridgement 1:06.06 2nd Place Jason Atkins 1:06.71

Click here for all of Rob's photos.

Round 2 - Sunday 26 Aug 2018 Wakefield Park

A cold crisp sunny winters day greeted a small enthusiastic field of 50 motorsport competitors for our second round of Club Trackdays at Wakefield Park. The weather conditions were ideal for many personal best times today and the competitive battle continues in most classes. A special mention to our resident husband and wife team of Greg and Lesa Bunn on their competitive track times. It looks like it won't be long before Lesa overtakes Greg. Another special mention to our competitive father and son team of Peter and Ross Barnwell. Congratulations to my daughter Aimee Kovacic on her personal best time of 1:14.90 in a Kia Ceed GT. Thank you to all my fellow officials for another successful record trackday. Since we had only 5 run groups some drivers managed to get up to 60 laps of record track time. Congratulations to all the drivers on their results as follows.

Class 1 1st Place Gregory Unger 1:17.69 2nd Place Gregor Lochtie 1:21.10
Class 2 1st Place Bryan Shedden 1:12.13
Class 3 1st Place Jie Ren 1:10.98 2nd Place Luke Kovacic 1:11.17
Class 4 1st Place Jamie Martin 1:15.47 2nd Place Josh Jones 1:15.55
Class 5 1st Place Sean Byers 1:15.88 2nd Place Jonathan Fox 1:15.99
Class 6 1st Place Dan Szwaj 1:11.72 2nd Place John Karayannis 1:12.25
Class 7 1st Place Greg Bunn 1:10.61 2nd Place Lesa Bunn 1:12.37
Class 8 1st Place Josh Fitzgerald 1:11.74 2nd Place Lindsay Green 1:16.58
Class 9 1st Place Stuart McFadyen 1:08.69 2nd Place Ralph Thompson 1:09.55
Class 10 1st Place Russ Maxwell 1:08.86 2nd Place Alan Rewell 1:12.92
Class 11 1st Place Peter Barnwell 1:07.95 2nd Place Ross Barnwell 1:09.99

Click here for all of Rob's photos.

Round 3 - Monday 17 Sep 2018 Wakefield Park Club

Another cold crisp sunny winter morning greeted an enthusiastic field of 55 motorsport competitors for our third round of Club Trackdays at Wakefield Park. The weather conditions were ideal for many personal best times again today and the competitive battle continues in most classes. Welcome back to Club Trackdays Mike Kelsey. It was good to see your car up and running again. A special mention to another competitive husband and wife team of David and Gaynor Lawler who placed 1st and 3rd in Class 9. Another special mention to Jie Ren and Luke Kovacic who are having a very competitive ding-dong battle in class 3 with their standard NDs and respective times of 1:10.80 and 1:10.96. Thank you to all my fellow officials once again for another successful trackday. Since we had only 5 run groups some drivers managed to get up to 50 laps of record track time. Congratulations to all the drivers on their results as follows.

Class 1 1st Place Keith Monaghan 1:16.32 2nd Place Gregory Unger 1:16.70
Class 2 1st Place Robert Muir 1:15.15 2nd Place Roger Palfreyman 1:16.75
Class 3 1st Place Jie Ren 1:10.80 2nd Place Luke Kovacic 1:10.96
Class 4 1st Place Jamie Martin 1:15.37
Class 5 1st Place Gerardo Martin 1:14.43 2nd Place Matt Tarrant 1:14.89
Class 6 1st Place Gus Elias 1:11.20 2nd Place Dan Szwaj 1:11.64
Class 7 1st Place Peter Feutrill 1:12.04 2nd Place Tony Smithers 1:13.52
Class 8 1st Place Allan Gibson 1:15.15 2nd Place Anna Fraser 1:15.58
Class 9 1st Place David Lawler 1:07.94 2nd Place Anthony Carter 1:12.35
Class 10 1st Place Mike Kelsey 1:09.90 2nd Place Russ Maxwell 1:10.03
Class 11 1st Place Keith Bridgement 1:10.29 2nd Place Ken Howarth 1:11.14