Willoughby Track nights!

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Rolling in the gates of SMSP is always an exciting experience, but a night arrival is next level! I'm waved into a pit garage and park my 1973 sports purpose Porsche 911 T behind a 2021 Porsche 992 911 Turbo S. Stepping out of the car I feel like a time traveller from the seventies, I'm surrounded by impressive new Porsche 911 GT cars, Turbos, Carreras and 718 Boxsters and Caymans! I feel like I've brought a knife to a gun fight.

Still I know my old car is no stranger to this place, the car's previous owner had achieved a Senna like moment by winning a wet Porsche Rennsport festival Regularity race in 2016! So it was just the driver who needed help.

On this evening PCW shares SMSP with a mix of car marques sectioned in other groups running in timed sessions. All the Willoughby drivers were in the Porsche group, meaning a mix of driver abilities, experience and car performance. The driver briefing explains overtaking happens on the straight, no waving past. My advice here is just start where you are, all drivers are on a journey, all are climbing the ladder, and some are above you and some below. It is the taking part and the willingness to be coached that moves the experience forward.

Peter who was driving the stunning Gentian Blue 992 911 Turbo S parked in front of me, shares: "In many ways the Willoughby track nights are better than the day events, because, for me, I don't have