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Bucolic Broadford welcomes us back for the second time this year! The two-hour drive from the suburbs of Melbourne was wet and slow, contrasting with the overall high speed across all classes on the day.

The weather improved as the day unfolded, with the track staying dry and the air staying cool, allowing drivers to push hard on this tight and technical circuit. With the season well underway, all classes were well represented, and extremely close times were recorded across the board. It was a smashing weekend at Broadford (luckily not literally).

Something was in the air, you could say, as class records fell quicker than Jeremy Clarkson’s recent career!

Adam Stafford and Stefan Wojceichowski have been sharing the honors in the GT1 Class Record, with Stefan setting it in 2016, breaking his own record in 2017, and Adam taking it in 2022.

Stefan took it back in 2023 and then beat the record again on Sunday! Stefan (991.1GT3RS), Adam (991.1GT3RS), and Anthony Bulloch (991.2GT3) were all faster than Stefan’s 2023 record on Sunday!

In GT3, James Moyle (991C2S) beat Simon Dunn’s record from April 2017, just edging out Richard Thompson, who also beat the record in his 996GT3. In A1, Peter Jordan (981 Cayman S) capped it all off by beating Jamie Lovett’s 2016 record.

In B Class, Danny Loypur (Cayman 987) put in a stellar drive, only 0.391 seconds away from taking Rick Moscati’s 2014 B Class record. While he missed the record, he was comfortably faster than the benchmark and earned 107 points for his day’s work.

Competitors will know that if a record is more than five years old, the benchmark increments from that point by 0.5% of the time per year.

A funny anecdote is Bill Toohey, now called “Wrong Way Bill,” who forgot to turn right at the end of the back straight and ended up in the run-off area, facing all of the oncoming traffic! (I think it was a sneaky reconnaissance!)

The only incident of the day was Daniel Reynolds losing a headlight on the back straight during his warm-up lap. (Luckily, it wasn’t a night race!) Lastly, what a day!

Many thanks to the officials and marshals whose seamless work to make these race events happen is universally appreciated.