MRA Round 1 2012 Programme by Wakefield Park

2011 ALL BRITISH

WAKEFIELD PARK JUNE 26th 2011

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Welcome to Wakefield Park for the first round of the 2012 MRA series. There are a number of categories for you to enjoy including a field of over 30 Super TT cars and a good Mini field with a mixture of Britain's finest against the new model BMW Mini’s.

The MRA series continues to grow each year and with the great support of Categories such as Super TT, Mini’s, Superkarts and Mazda MX 5’s it will continue to grow. In 2012 we have added sports sedans for the first time and we look forward to many sports sedan being dusted off and having a run at Wakefield.

2012 we will have four rounds of the MRA series. The series cater for amateur motorsports drivers who want to have fun racing in a great social atmosphere. Fun is the motto of the MRA and we aim to please everyone that competes.

We hope you enjoy the days racing and we look forward to seeing you at Wakefield Park again soon.

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WARNING: MOTOR RACING IS DANGEROUS Motor Racing is DANGEROUS, and spectators attending this track do so entirely at their own risk. It is a condition of admission that all persons having a connection with the promotion, and/or organisation, and/or conduct of the meeting, including the owners of the land and the riders and owners of vehicles and passengers in the vehicles, are absolved from all liability arising out of the accidents causing damage or personal injury to spectators or ticket holders, except where due care and skill has not been exercised.

ALCOHOL IS NOT PERMITTED IN THE PADDOCK AREA BY ORDER OF AUSTRALIAN AUTO-SPORT ALLIANCE. ANIMALS ARE NOT PERMITTED AT THE CIRCUIT AS PER THE NCR’S.

Organising Committee:

Kayla Edwards, Matthew Ronke, Terry Denovan, Brian Walden

CLERK OF COURSE:

David Firminger

AASA STEWARD:

Terry Denovan

RACE SECRETARY:

Kayla Edwards

CHIEF SCRUTINEER:

Peter Batt

CHIEF TIMEKEEPER:

Lisa Drayton, Eldee Timing

RECOVERY:

Chris Lenihan and Southern Cross Motorsport Fire and Rescue

COMMENTATORS:

Terry Nightingale

FLAG MARSHALS:

WAKEFIELD PARK TEAM

TRACK Preparation:

Sam Gill, Craig Rutherford, Matthew Keegan

MEDICAL SERVICES:

Ambulance Service Australia

OFFICE:

Robyn Ryan, Gail Lewis

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Sunday 29th January 8:15

Drivers Breifing

8:40

Regularity

Practice

10min

Super TT / MX5 Qualifying Group 1

Qualifying

10min

Superkarts

Qualifying

10min

Super TT / MX5 Qualifying Group 2

Qualifying

10min

Racing & Sports / Future Racers

Qualifying

10min

Mini's

Qualifying

10min

Sports Sedans

Qualifying

10min

Regularity

Run 1

6 laps

Super TT / MX5 Group B

Race 1

6 laps

Superkarts

Race 1

6 laps

Super TT / MX 5 Group A

Race 1

6 laps

Racing & Sports / Future Racers

Race 1

6 laps

Mini's

Race 1

6 laps

Sports Sedans

Race 1

6 laps

Regularity

Run 2

6 laps

Lunch

10 min

Super TT Group B

Race 2

8 laps

E10

Superkarts

Race 2

8 laps

E11

Super TT Group A

Race 2

8 laps

E12

Racing & Sports / Future Racers

Race 2

8 laps

E13

Mini's

Race 2

8 laps

E14

Sports Sedans

Race 2

8 laps

E15

Regularity

Run 3

6 laps

E16

Super TT Group B

Race 3

10 laps

E17

Superkarts

Race 3

10 laps

E18

Super TT Group A

Race 3

10 laps

E19

Racing & Sports / Future Racers

Race 3

10 laps

E20

Mini's

Race 3

10 laps

E21

Sports Sedans

Race 3

10 laps

E22

Regularity

Run 4

6 laps

E23

Racing & Sports / Future Racers

Race 4

6 laps

E24

Superkarts

Race 4

6 laps

E25

Invitation Race

Race 1

6 laps

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Sports Sedans No 5 24 27 50 51 96

Sponsors Stevens Security Group P/L Precision Automotive

Driver First Garry Greg Bruce David Andrew Doug

Driver Last Stevens Knight Rooke Loftus Macpherson Moss

State NSW NSW NSW NSW NSW NSW

111 Octane Events, Nja Perform-

Michael

Fitzgerald

151

Ben

Porter

187 All-Systems Electronics

Graham

Cardwell

933 Bright Print Group

Craig

Burgess

24C Walden Motorsport Pty Ltd

Brian

Walden

Bsm

Vehicle Mazda Rx7 Series 3 Ford Falcon Ford Escort Toyota Starlet Lotus Exige Datsun 120Y

Colour Red &White Yellow White Blue Black Orange

Capacity 6000 3900 1300 3175 1800 3400

NSW Nissan Silvia

Black

2000

NSW Mosler Mt900 Mitsubishi Lancer NSW Evolution 6 NSW Mazda Rx7 Series 8 Holden CommoNSW dore

White

7000

White

2000

Red

1300

Black/Orange 6000

What are Sports Sedans? The open rules of Sports Sedans allow for the inclusion of many currently competing cars. Owners of Commodore Cup, Kingswood, V8 Supercars and NASCAR are all welcome to enter and run in our races. Drivers currently competing in Super Sprints with cars that donâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t fit into existing

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racing categories can often find a home in the ranks of Sports Sedans. Recently introduced 4WD rules allow production based (no space frames) 4WD cars such as Nissan Skyline, Subaru WRX, Mitsubishi Lancer EVO, etc. to come and race .

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A Brief History of Wakefield Park The Wakefield Park circuit was built by Paul Samuels and John Carter and was opened officially by John Fahey, the then NSW Premier and member for the Goulburn district in November 1994. It was built with club motor sport firmly in mind and with the control tower and paddock facilities and carports it made some of our existing circuits look a bit out dated. Track days and supersprints were the usual events with race days for cars, motor bikes and go karts also becoming popular at the circuit. At 2.2 kilometres, with an reasonable length straight leading to a section of uphill bends with the loop at the top of the hill and then a downhill run into what became known as the fish hook section and a negatively banked last turn onto the main straight the circuit offered quite a challenge to achieve a quick lap. In 2000 the circuit changed hands for the first time with Rob Hodgkinson and Paul Phillips taking over. Soon after the change over the circuit was re-profiled with changes to the fish hook area and the final turn onto the main straight. Both of these changes improved the flow of the circuit, the fish hook area in particular allowing for a faster run onto the back straight. Under the new ownership the Wakefield Park licensing and permit system was introduced. This gave clubs a cheaper alternative to CAMS for the running of events and members could also purchase a Wakefield licence with which they could compete in events that they may not normally be able to on a level 2 licence. Now the circuit uses the AASA insurance and permit system that which is now being used by a large proportion of motor sport promoters and clubs for events around the country. The Speed off the street days that allowed people to drive their own cars on the circuit under the Wakefield licence system, encouraging speed at the right venue and not on public roads were also introduced and continue today. From 2001 to 2008 the circuit held a round of the V8 development series, this for many years being the only stand alone round for those cars. The pit lane garages were added at this time, once again improving the circuitâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s facilities. In January 2007 the circuit was bought by the Benalla Auto Club, the owners of the Winton circuit in country Victoria. At the end of 2008 a major re-surfacing of the circuit took place and this again has led to better lap times. 2010 has seen the introduction of a lighting system at all flag points that will warn drivers of incidents on the circuit and be operated from race control. With the complex now managed by Mathew Ronke and ongoing improvements happening the circuit is still a great club sport venue. With a great cafe and complete circuit viewing from the spectator areas enjoy todayâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s racing. The current lap record for the circuit is held by Ben Chrithon driving an F3 open wheeler and stands at 54.563 seconds, a fairly quick time. Wakefield Park, just another great part of the Goulburn area. Current lap Record Holder Ben Crighton from New Zealand

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Miniâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s Race No 24

Sponsors Manly Glass Co

Driver First Driver Last State

Vehicle

Colour

Capacity

Chris

Adlam

NSW Leyland Mini

White/Green

1310

Syd

Crawford

NSW Taylorspeed Jem

Red

1330 1600

Arthurs Creek Racing

Henry

Draper

VIC

Mini Cooper S Jcw Red

Ultimate Tunes Act

Santino

Dicarlo

ACT

Mini Sports

Red/White

Wholesale Blooms

Rocky

Canto

nsw

Mini

Yellow

1380

Lee

Evans

NSW Bmc Mini Mini

Green/White

1300

69 72

Hansinsure/ Synchron/ Fmd Motorsoprt

Hans

Riehs

NSW

Windscreens By Jennings

John

Walker

NSW Morris Mini

128

Panorama Air Conditioning Nathan

238

Rob

Bmw Mini Cooper Yellow S Jcw

Stevenson NSW Mini Cooper Byrnes

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NSW

1600

Red/Yellow/Blue 1310 Blue

1275

1964 Morris CooWhite/Red per S

1293

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Regularity Race Sponsors 18

Lorraine Gill Accounting

28 99 111 111

Southern Sporting Car Club

122 237 581 612

Southern Sporting Car Club Pav-Speed Garage

Driver First Driver Last State Vehicle Colour Holden Vb CommoJohn Gill NSW White dore Michael Paterson NSW Commodore Regularit Silver James Rooke NSW Volante Ford Green John Markwick NSW Nissan Pulsar Sr20 White Kevin Allen NSW Volvo 850 T5 Maroon

5700 4457 2 2400

Laurie Martin

Murton NSW Mitsubishi Gto Mcloughlin NSW Torana Lj

Red Purple

2997 3300

Brad Nathan

Bassett Pavett

White White

4000 1800

NSW Ford Falcon NSW Datsun 180B Sss

Capacity 5000

What is Regularity ? it is where the driver nominates a lap time and endeavours to maintain that time over a number of flying laps (usually 6) of a racing circuit. Each tenth of a second away from the nominated time scores penalty points. The driver with the least number of points wins, or the driver with the most points i.e. furthest from their nominated lap time comes last! (You see, you get excited and forget what you’re doing).

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Therefore, you don’t need to buy an expensive ‘rocket’, the family ‘shopping trolley’ can be just as competitive as the latest sports car. A car passing you on the track is not perceived as beating you. This has the effect of competitors not trying to block or ‘dice’ with each other, as in racing or sprinting, and generally much safer competition results. In fact, blocking and dicing is not tolerated and will attract a penalty from the officials of the event.

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2011 Regularity Points POS.

NAME

CAR

TOT

John Gill

Peugot

894

Neil Ruxton

BMW

1307

Geoff Stockley

Ford Falcon

1526

Laurie Murton

Mitsubishi

1673

Gregg Noonan

Ford Escort

1948

Ted Dial

Nissan

2095

Brad Bassett

Ford Falcon

2130

John Rose

Mercedes Benz

2144

David Mackie

Lotus Exige

2344

Mike Basquil

Lotus Exige

2438

Neil Martin

Triumph TR7

Nathan Jackson Holden Gemini

2500

Mike Sharman

Ford

2501

Damian Hartin

Lotus Exige S

2512

Robin George

Triumph TR7

2516

Vicky Rowe

Lotus Elise

2522

Chris Komor

Austin Healey

2531

Dennis Willson Nissan GTR

2558

Dave Mitchell

Toyota Corolla

2588

Ashton Roskill

Lotus Elise

2604

Ryan Boslem

Nissan Skyline R33

2613

Darrel Clayton

Mazda RX7

2672

Troy Fraser

Nissan SX

2693

Peter Bryant

Lotus Elise 2001

2719

Darren Harris

Alfa Romeo GTV 116

2726

Eric Lander

Subaru Liberty GT Sti

2726

27 28

Bryan Young Sean Duddling

Triumph Vitesse Lotus Elise

2775 2789

2451

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Superkarts No: 8

14 16

Sponsors Get Movin Rentals Total Trade Balustrading & Glass Constructions Pty Ltd Toptorque Engines Omd Electrical

Driver First Driver Last State Graeme Taplin NSW

Vehicle Arrow X1E

Colour Red

Capacity 125

Peter

Bryant

NSW

Stockman Superkart

Black

250

Matthew Bill

Bass Wilson

NSW NSW

Stockman Honda Centreline Honda

Red Blue Black/Gold

125 450

22 26

Redback Racepaint Act Colourite Painting

Paul Mark

Campbell Robin

ACT NSW

Avoig Elise Italkart

Orange Red/Black

125 125

36 38 40 55 57 58

Cancian Engineering Stockman Top Torque Engines Anc Health Als Brickcleaning Fitzsimmons Diesel

Robert Alex Greg Ian Allan Greg

Trimmer Soravia Bass Mash Parker Tinsley

NSW Centreline Honda Blue NSW Stockman Blue/Red Victoria Stockman Honda Red Blue NSW Centreline Superkart Red / White NSW Italkart Supersonic 30/32 Yellow/Red NSW Arrow Purple

Labour Options

Paul

Degan

NSW

67 71 75

Str Truck Bodies Guards Australia

Matthew Alan Brian

Palmer Dodge Tinsley

Truck Transmissions &

Jeff

Hanley

85 90 93

Persas

Anthony Mark Goran

Dykstra NSW Vickers NSW Milenkovic NSW

Prancing Horse Drive

Dennis

Gizas

Dlr Racing Dalton Aasa/Mra Superkart RacWayne ing Team

111

125 250 250 125 125 125

Black / Or-

125

Victoria Anderson NSW Arrow Bmax NSW Arrow

Blue Blue Purple/Red

250 125 125

NSW

Black

125

Arrow Ax 8 Arrow Avoig Elise

Red Blue Black/Box

125 125 125

NSW

Arrow Ax8

Black

125

Rowell

NSW

Arrow Ax8

Black/Orange 125

Horswell

NSW

2007 Hypermax

Black/Green 125

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What is Superkarting? Think back to your childhood ... back to your homemade billy-kart, a few pieces of 4x2 which was powered by gravity and a mate or two throw in some wacky steering, some Victa lawn mower wheels and Fred Flintstone brakes. You imagined you were Fangio, Stewart, Senna as you rolled down the driveway. It was heaps of fun eh? Now take the concept to the other extreme ... you’ve got a professionally manufactured Chrome-Moly chassis, sticky racing slicks, 6-speed truesequential shift racing bike engine, four-wheel disc brakes, and wings. Now you have a recipe for the ultimate karting experience! Today’s Superkarts owe their heritage to decades of dedicated research by manufacturers and teams all over the world, pushing chassis, aero, tyre and engine design to the limits in a similar way to how Formula One works ... without the mega-dollar budget.

Because of the awesome speeds these machines are capable of, they are only raced on large road-race circuits – places like Eastern Creek, Phillip Island, Mallala, Silverstone, Laguna Seca, Hockenheim ... Yes, the same tracks all the top race drivers around the world race at. So picture this. You’re sitting in your grid position, amongst 50 other karts, and the Red Light is ON. Bringing the tacho up to 13,000rpm and your heart is beating just as fast as the adrenaline surges through your arteries, and then the lights go out ... it’s time to launch this little rocket! You’ve fired off the line like a slingshot, gotten to about 100kph in 3 seconds, and now you give the gear stick a nudge into 2nd gear. The tacho screams its way back to 13,000 and you just keep nudging that gearstick, 3 ... 4 ... 5 ... 6 ... brake hard. NO ... HARDER!! You’ve brought this monster down from 230kph to just 87kph in

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the blink of an eye (but a lot heartbeats) and you about to guide this missile through a hard 2.5G corner. With your neck muscles struggling to keep your helmet attached to your body, you’re back on the throttle as you hurtle out of the corner in 2nd gear, the speed and acceleration building just like a few seconds ago as you grab 3rd, 4th ... Repeat over and over and over again. Some corners are “slow”, you take them at about 90kph, other corners are “fast” and you can attack them flat out, but the sensation is always the same. Woo Hoo! Sound more like the sort of thing you wanted to do as a kid with that billycart? If not, stop reading now. But if you can imagine yourself doing this for the sheer heck of it, because you can, because it’s the cheapest entry into circuit racing, because there are no more excuses.

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2012 Race Calender Round 1

January 30th Wakefield Park

Round 2

May 6th

Wakefield Park

Round 3 (All British) July 1st

Wakefield Park

Round 4

Nov 25th

Wakefield Park

Wakefield 300

March 3/4

Wakefield Park

6 Hour Relay

July 14 / 15

Wakefield Park

AASA State Champs July 21/ 22

Wakefield Park

2012 Wakefield 300 The 2012 Wakefield 300 is shaping up to be one of the most fascinating races so far. There are more cars and new driver combinations already gearing up for what is one of NSWâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s premiere events. The Wakefield 300 s a 137 lap 300km event around Wakefield

Parkâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s 2.2km circuit.

It has a unique division system that allows everyone competing to be in contention to win their own division.

It is a two driver event with some teams electing to run a third driver. The event is open to many different types of cars Last years winner Steve Ansvery similar based to the falow & Ric Shaw finally won the mous Nurburgring 24 hour in event after a number of tries. Germany.

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Mazda MXâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;5s Race No 0

Sponsors Tampered Motorsport

133

Jrm Quick Dig

Driver First Driver Last State Matthew

Butters

VIC

Neil

Halls

Chris

Quick

Vehicle Mazda Mx5

Colour

Capacity

Blue

1800

NSW Mazda Mx5

Silver

1800

NSW Mazda Mx5

Red

1800

What is the MX5 Challenge? The MX5 Challenge is for Mazda MX5 that fit into 2A, 2B or 2F as long as the retain Mazda power. In 2010 Wakefield Park hosted the MX5 Nationals which was won by Sydneyâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s David Raddatz. The MX5 Challenge can range in lap times from 1 minute 4 seconds for the 2A cars to 1 minute 16 to the 2F cars. Its a class were every MX5 can compete and enjoy their racing.

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Future & Sports Racers Race No

Sponsors

Driver First

Driver Last

State Vehicle

Kaos Racing

Ben

Cathcart

NSW

Pm & Sms

Phillip

Cash

Spax Suspension Concepts Steve

111

Colour

Capacity

Blue

1800

NSW Suzuki Gti

Red

1298

Anslow

NSW Mazda Rx7

Red

6000

Octane Events, Nja PerMichael formance, Sss Automotive

Fitzgerald

NSW Nissan Silvia

Black

2000

124

Tampered Motorsport

Shane

Baker

NSW

Holden ComBlack modore

5700

133

Jrm Quick Dig

Chris

Quick

NSW Mazda Mx5

Red

Mazda Mx5 1999

1800

140

Matthew Windsor

NSW Mazda Rx7

White/Blue 2854

141

Elliot

Wright

NSW Triumph Tr7

White

4600

David

Blyth

NSW Ford Escort

Yellow

2000

Carly

Black

NSW Peugeot 206

Red

1998

NSW

Red

1905

White

1997

200

Diff Technics

206 441

Slotshop.Com.Au

Parry

Anastakis

455

Sonic Interactive

Michael

Hiscoe

733

Bright Print Group

Adam

Burgess

933

Bright Print Group

Craig

Burgess

24C

Walden Motorsport Pty Ltd Garth

Walden

Peugeot 205Gti Mitsubishi Evo NSW 9 Gt Nissan Skyline NSW Gtr R32 Mazda Rx7 NSW Series 8

Green/Silver 2600 Red

NSW Holden Com- Black/

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NSW Super TT 2011 Winners 1st Steve Anslow Mazda RX7

2nd Nick Cancian Mazda MX5

3rd Michael Fitzgerald Nissan Silvia

4th John Street Mitsubishi EVO â&#x20AC;&#x201D; 5th Marty Miller Holden

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QUICK MX5 Chris Quick juggles his MX5 between the Super TT category and MX5 Racing at MRA Events

same year, and with eight rounds spread over Oran Park (GP and South), Eastern Creek and Wakefield it was a full on season, and making it better he won his 2B class, which doesn’t do much for the addiction for which there is no cure.

Chris Quick is an Insurance Underwriter who lives on the Central Coast and like so many others has a passion for fast cars and the opportunity to drive his car He also participated in competitively at speed in a other club days and driversafe and legal environtraining days held with ment. John Boston, so all up throughout 2009 he manThat is why Chris comaged to complete 15 mopetes in the Motor Racing torsport events! Australia (MRA) race meetings, and will be driving in “With the news that Oran the fourth and final round Park was officially closing I of the 2011 championship signed up to do the last at Goulburns Wakefield MRA meeting at the circuit. Park on October 30. – it was my first door to door race meet and as you The 29 year old owned a can imagine I was very, Nissan R33 GTS25t for five very nervous,” he said. years, and has been a member of Skylines Austra- He qualified 6th in division lia since 2006 and the 2 out of 30 cars, and had Southern Sporting Car Club several good battles with since 2008, and did the other cars, learning a lot occasional track day before from the event and most deciding he wanted to take importantly came home in his hobby to the next level. one piece, but with a big-

stone for people wanting to step up from supersprints in an affordable yet fun series. Being held at Wakefield is great – it is a weekend away from work and home and I have met a great bunch of people to race with. “After doing MX5 races I decided I would enter the SuperTT class which has a wide range of vehicles from Escorts to EVO’s to Skylines to Kingswoods and everything in between.

“No matter if you are in the top 5 or bottom 10 – “2010 was a quiet year as I there are always cars to have some battles with got married and bought a while having respect for house. I still managed to each other. head to Eastern Creek twice and also to head “What I love about Wakenorth to Morgan Park in field Park is that you don’t QLD for the national superneed real big horsepower sprint sadly missing out on to get quick times which Wakefield that year.” suits me and my MX5 quite “After searching car fowell. With 75rwkw I need rums for months I found a This year Quick started 1994 MX5 NA8 1.8L that racing with the MRA series to rely on corner speed and handling while getting my had been 95% finished as a at Wakefield Park in the lines right. At a recent CAMS 2F log booked and MX5 class. The first round interclub supersprint I street registered car in was run in January, folmanaged a PB of 1.13.8. A QLD. lowed by others in April and June, and he’s now got lot of people seem to While the MX5 was being the final round this month. struggle with the ‘fish hook’ however turn 2 is my built for circuit racing, he started competing in super- “The MRA series is fantas- arch nemesis! sprints in class 2B in the tic. It’s a great stepping “Looking for cheaper options that can be a lot of fun and fairly competitive I looked outside the square, and after driving Dads 1.6L MX5 on a few twisty roads I decided that the MX5 will be my race car,” said Quick.

ger addiction.

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As everyone is well aware, motorsport is not cheap and he has done everything out of his own pocket, and works on the car when he can, as he said “through blood sweat and tears (and beers!). Mazda MX5’s are a real surprise packet, particularly considering their 75rwkw. Showing how he has improved in the little 1800cc racer, the Quick MX5’s lap times have been dropping considerably since he started in 2009. At Wakefield Park his best lap when he first started in the MX5, his fastest lap was 1m:15:1seconds, then in August this year he had reduced it to 1:m13:8seconds, while at Eastern Creek he has improved by as mammoth 3.6 seconds. “I know I’ll never be a front runner and that does not worry me. I love being at the track especially Wakefield – it feels like a home away from home and a sense of belonging. There is nothing better than 20+ cars with their revs up.” January 29th 2012

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