Motorsport Weekly Roundup - 15th March 2023

Upcoming Events

Club Track Day - Round 2 - Entries open but close soon

Entries are open for our 2nd track day of 2023 at the Pheasant Wood circuit near Marulan, on Sunday 26th March. This is a tight and challenging circuit and is well suited to MX-5s.
For further information and for entering the event see the event page https://nsw.mx5.com.au/events/club-track-day-round-22

Entries will close next Tuesday, 21stMarch.

We need 5 flaggies for this event, so if you don’t plan to enter the event and have 26th March free, please consider helping out. If you can help, contact David at competition@mx5.com.au

MX-5 Multi-Club Track Day at The Bend - Entries still open

Entries are still open for this track day at The Bend on Sunday 23rd April.

There are currently about 60 entries received, with approx 18 from members of the MX-5 Club of NSW, the majority of entries from the Vic & Tas MX-5 club and others from the SA MX-5 club.

Entry is open to all members of Australian state MX-5 clubs.

Further information is available on the NSW club website: MX-5 Multi-Club Track Day

NSWRRC 6 Hour Team Regularity – Entries open

Each year a good number of teams of MX-5 Club drivers compete at the NSW Road Racing Club team regularity on the GP circuit at Sydney Motorsport Park. This year the event is on Saturday & Sunday 29th & 30th April. Entries are open. If you are interested in this event NOW is a good time to call around and put together a team.
More information is available on the NSWRRC website https://www.nswrrc.com.au/nsw6hour

NSW Supersprint – Round 2 – Sunday 2nd April

This event will be run on the SMSP North/Druitt circuit by NSWRRC.

Entries are open: NSW Supersprint Round 2

Completed Events

Club Motorkhana - Round 1 – Saturday 11th March

The first club motorkhana for 2023 was run last Sunday at the Sydney Motorsport Park skidpan, with 35 drivers competing.

Results of the event are on the club website: Motorkhana Round 1 Results

Pictures by Rob Wilkins are available in his Flickr album: Motorkhana Round 1 Photos

Some video snippets were captured by Kaixin Chen: Video snippets on Google Drive

MX-5 Cup – Round 1 – Saturday 11th March

The 1st round of the 2023 MX-5 Cup championship was run at Sydney Motorsport Park GP Circuit on Saturday 11th March. There were 20 entrants, although only 19 presented for qualifying with Sarah Medley’s car having issues after a Friday practice session.

A full report on the event is on the club website: MX-5 Cup Round 1 Report

Pictures by Rob Wilkins are available in his Flickr album: MX-5 Cup Round 1 Photos

NSW Supersprint – Round 1 – Sunday 12th March

No official results have been published yet, but from the results on Natsoft there were 5 drivers representing the MX-5 Club with:

• Ralph Thompson in Class 2S finishing 5th against a bunch of Porsches, a BMW and a Nissan GTR,

• Ken Hardy & Gerald Drechsler finishing 4th and 6th in Class RM, and

• Luke Kovacic finishing 1st in RR with David Alland in the pack.

In winning Class RR, Luke in his Toyota GR Yaris punched above his weight, as usual, beating a Toyota Supra, Mitsubishi Evo VII and a Subaru WRX, plus another 12 cars.

I note that track day regular Jie Ren won Class RM in his Toyota Supra, although he was representing ARDC.

Other News

New Owner of Wakefield Park

Steve Shelley, who is the owner of the Pheasant Wood Circuit near Marulan has announced on the Pheasant Wood facebook page that he has bought Wakefield Park and is keen and motivated to get the track operating again.

Given the progress that has been made with Pheasant Wood since he took over, we can only hope that same momentum can be channeled into reopening Wakefield Park.

His facebook post is here New Owner of Wakefield Park, and there is also an Auto Action article about the sale.