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    Mar 09 2018

    ARDC Members blitz CAMS State Awards

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    CAMS NSW had their 2017 State Awards Dinner last month, and it is well worth mentioning the results of ARDC Members at that event. We think it is an incredible achievement for one club to have so many Members attaining such awards.
    Below are the results of the Supersprint, MRC and CAMS Awards, and the ARDC Members are highlighted. What a turn out!
    Well done ARDC… US!

    CAMS Awards

    Club Challenge Australia – North Short Sporting Car Club, Nulon Nationals hosted by Road and Track Drivers Club (held here at SMSP)
    Service Award – Sandra Brand
    Service Award – Andrew Brand #3342
    Service Award – Robyn Fuller
    Service Award – Maurice Fuller
    Castrol State Official of the Year – Glenn Pincott  # 3205
    Burson Future Star Award – Riley MacQueen
    Colin Bond Award – Aaron McClintock # 5349
    Coral Taylor Award – Kelly Handley
    Kevin Bartlett Award – Jordan Cox #9254
    Judith Rae Award – Marion Baxter

    NSW Supersprint Championship

    Unmodified Road Registered Vehicles – Andrew Kendall #12643
    Road Registered Vehicles with Limited Modifications – Chris Kostakis #11581
    Modified Improved Production Cars – Scott McKune #12749
    Modified Group 2F – Prodsports – Valery Muzman #6616
    Time Attack Cars – Mat Wootten #11795
    Clubmans, Racing and Sports Racing Cars – Andrie Tan #11296
    Champion Club – Maxda MX-5 Car Club of NSW

    NSW Motor Race Championships

    Supersports – Class One: Rowan Ross #3598
    Supersports – Class Two: Darren Barlow #3639
    Supersports – Class Three: Peter Hills
    Supersports – Class Four and Outright: Joshua Versluis #1706
    Formula Vee 1600 1st – Craig Sparke #6422
    Formula Vee 1600 2nd – Dylan Thomas #1417
    Formula Vee 1600 3rd – James Horne #4404
    Formula Vee 1200 1st – Bernie Cannon #3707
    Formula Vee 1200 2nd – Michael Gale #3651
    Formula Vee 1200 3rd – Bruce Pearce #11721
    Formula Race Cars – 1st Championship Class and Outright – Aaron McClintock #5349
    Formula Race Cars – 2nd Outright – Graeme Holmes #3566
    Formula Race Cars – 2nd Championship Class – Glenn Lynch #1641
    HQ Holden Racing 1st – Brett Osborn
    HQ Holden Racing 2nd – Duane Cambridge #3711
    HQ Holden Racing 3rd – Scott Walker #11368
    Improved Production Over 2 Litre 1st – Ahmed Baghdadi #11707
    Improved Production Over 2 Litre 2nd – Ben Serifovski #11514
    Improved Production Over 2 Litre 3rd – Graeme Watts #273
    Improved Production Under 2 Litre 1st – Jordan Cox #9254
    Improved Production Under 2 Litre 2nd – Mike Fitzgerald#9230
    Improved Production Under 2 Litre 3rd – Craig Wildridge #2065
    Superkart 1st – Mark Robin #5124
    Superkart 2nd – Paul Campbell #5294
    Superkart 3rd – Alan Dodge #11935
    Formula Ford 1st – Lachlan Gibbons #9221
    Formula Ford 2nd – James Burge #7263
    Formula Ford 3rd – Jackson Burton #12755
    Formula Ford 1600 1st – Keith Brennan #11901
    Formula Ford 1600 2nd – Josh Behn #12899
    Formula Ford 1600 3rd – Mitchell Maddren
    Production Sports 1st – Brad Schumacher #12840
    Production Sports 2nd – Glenn Townsend #2045
    Production Sports 3rd – Marcel Zalloua #5350
    Production Touring 1st – Daniel Smith #13337
    Production Touring 2nd – Jimmy Vernon #3463
    Production Touring 3rd – Adam Gosling #5864
    Sports Sedan 1st – Birol Cetin #158
    Sports Sedan 2nd – Simon Copping #106
    Sports Sedan 3rd – Brad Shiels

    Written by Samantha Stevens · Categorized: News · Tagged: ARDC, awards. state, cams

    May 31 2016

    Event Wrap: NSW Motor Race Championships Rnd 3

    Event Wrap: NSW Motor Race Championships Rnd 3

    Returning to Sydney Motorsport Park for Rd3 of the NSW Motor Race Championships, competitors were forced to pull out their winter woollies and umbrellas for day one of racing. Rain, wind and cool temperatures spoke to the fact that we are entering the winter racing season, after pleasant but unseasonally warm weather lasted through to the end of autumn.

    This dramatic weather change tested race craft thinking and teams preparedness was being challenged. As well, qualifying and first races were run before the track dried out, which gave incentive to competitors to get clear of leading cars as water spray was an inhibitor to good lap times and poor visibility was a very real concern to reaction times. Several cars didn’t make it through this period. Peter Boylan (car #28) suffered a weekend ending heavy impact, so hard in fact that the door popped off on his Porsche 911. Lucky Peter always carries a spare (Porsche, that is!).

    The early qualifying categories were affected the worst, especially the lightweight Formula Vee’s with Pearce, Porter and Pace all skating and losing the racing line in this session. Formula Vee Championship leader Ryan Reynolds had a start to the weekend he’d rather forget. After throwing an oil filter in qualifying and being relegated to the back of the grid, his engine blew up in race one. Working from well behind the eight-ball, frenetic activity in his garage and help from a bunch of people, Ryan recovered in magnificent style with a win and a second in races two and three.

    Without the pressure of Reynolds in the first race, Dylan Thomas was able to take an aggressive race line and led from start to finish to keep his c’ship points ticking over. Not so easy pickings for him once Reynolds returned, and Thomas had to settle for a second and a third.

    After winning rookie-of-the-year Aaron Pace had a splendid weekend. The young man got a “new” car over the summer, (ex- Darren Williams Jacer) and it seems to be paying off. Seasoned veteran and top-field competitor (and Dad) Simon Pace, said: “…its a bittersweet day for me. I’m so proud of Aaron, he’s driving so well, but he’s just beaten me for the very first time.” In fact, by the end of the weekend, Aaron had beaten his Dad in all four outings. Simon beamed with pride as he introduced his youngest son, and soon to be Formula Vee racing rookie, Daniel. Watch that name, as it seems that the Pace family is creating a formidable Formula Vee racing dynasty. In other Vee racing, Jason Thorne was clipped in race two and completely lost his nose cone, causing all sorts of aerodynamic issues for him to contend with.

    Following a heady call-up to be the “Am” in the Pro-Am Carrera Cup two driver format, partnering with Nick McBride ( 2nd place on Championship ladder) several weeks ago, a busy Dylan Thomas also competed in Production Touring. This wasn’t quite as happy an excursion for him. Being used to being up the front of a field, Dylan had to be content with an 8th place start on the grid. Race one was forgettable as a valve stem let go and that ended up DNF. Following a couple of mid field finishes in races one and two, he finally exerted enough competitive pressure on the weekend dominant trio of Oosthuizen, Skinner and Symes (who between them owned eight of the nine available podium places) to take the final weekend top podium spot.

    Superkarts had a four race meeting and got their first race done in a down pour. Open karts give you no respite from the onslaught of weather hurled at you, and with several recent Australian Kart champions vying to relive their past glory, it made for an exciting spectacle. These pocket rockets, elevated off the bitumen only by 4 inch diameter tyres scarily scream down main straight at over 225 kph. So you can imagine that losing one of your tyres would be a rather hair-raising experience.

    This is exactly what happened to race one leader Ilya (Illy) Harpas. Coming into turn 16 on the very last lap, John Dunn moved across Harpas’ race line causing him to execute a fast “tank slapper”. Colloquially named, (Definition: Wobble, shimmy, tank-slapper, speed wobble are all words and phrases used to describe a quick oscillation of primarily just the steerable wheel(s) of a vehicle) for the action required to “get the hell out of the way” of a possible coming together of vehicles. Unfortunately his avoidance manouevre caused him to make contact with a curb throwing his tiny lightweight kart up and coming down hard resulted in it throwing a shoe. Now this would be fair cause for an “all-up” lift and return to the pits on the back of Rescue One, but no, these fella’s don’t give up so easily. As Harpas hit the deck he was still pointing forward. With incredible presence of mind, Illy jammed on the throttle and with two good steering wheels in the front he drove that sloppy jalopy all the way to the chequered flag with only three wheels for a second place finish. True professional or simply crazy? You be the judge…

    Reigning Kart champ Russell Jamieson showed why he is the incumbent No. 1. With classy runs netting two wins and a second, he kept Pecoraro and McIveen in his mirrors all weekend. Harpas made a strong claim as he pushed Jamieson back down the podium with two strong wins and his amazing second place. It should be said that if the wheel incident hadn’t happened only 700m from the finish line he would have had a third victory and been the debutante of the ball with even more reason to celebrate. Stay watching this young Illy Harpas.

    Sports Sedans is like a motorised version of the Big Bash League. Big American cars, big engines, big speed and big sound! Following his season ending major accident late last year, Birol Cetin brought Billy’s Camaro v2.0 out and gave it a big kick in the guts. The weekend leader board bolted Cetins name up there in first place and left it there. That’s the way it ended. How it all unfolded was another story altogether. Laceys run of bad luck continued from 2015. Looking good and his Camaro ostensibly running well with good power and handling, Lacey fought Cetin throughout the whole race, the twin yellow Camaro’s side by side. Twice with passing opportunities thwarted due to parked cars on the side of his favourite overtaking spot, just out of turn 14 under the corporate hill bridge. Third time lucky and Lacey took Cetin and was enjoying the last lap lead up through turn 17. The ground commentator over the loudspeakers nearly barfed a lung he shouted so loud trying to egg Laceys slowing car down as it became apparent that there was a serious problem with the #1 car. Cetin sailed on by to reclaim his lead and the glory while McCready ran down the 16 second gap to the front runners as Lacey glided slowly with only momentum down the agonizing distance from turn 18 to cross the finish line, only to unceremoniously pull up alongside the pit lane track marshall’s cage suffering a broken axle. His inspired drive had gotten him enough of a buffer on the rest of the field for him to still claim third as a consolation prize, a far cry from the result he must have seen in his minds eye as he rounded that last bend before the sickening sound and no go under him.

    Production Sports had their first Enduro of the season, with a Driver A and B race late on Sunday. A ding dong stoush between Matt Turnbulls Lamborghini and a gang of ten Porsches. Eventually the Porsches just outlasted the Lamborghini as it retired with gearbox issues, and Neale Mustons’ relentless pounding out the laps as he fended off fierce racing stalwart Geoff Morgans’ new 991 Cup car. After an hour race only 27 seconds split the single driver pair with the Cook/Meyer team one minute back. Young Andy Harris from Mittagong experienced massive disappointment as his newly purchased Mazda MX3 dropped a metre wide pool of oil from a blown engine under his stationary car. He’d been rotating in the top third of the field doing a good job in his first enduro.

    HQ’s again featured the Baxter-Osborn show As reported before, these two guys are so evenly matched that again this weekends race finish times were as little as three-one hundredths of a second apart. With these two having locked up the two top spots, Molle shared third with King. Newcomer to HQ, but a regular around the local racing fraternity, Scott Walker acquitted himself admirably with a 4th place start off the grid, and a 4th place finish in race one.

    In these difficult financial times for the racing industry, it was wonderful news to hear that Joe Lenthall (Improved Production O2L ) had secured sponsorship from MOTHERS care care products, who’s logos were emblazoned in huge white letters all over his red RX7 this weekend.

    Last year John McKenzie Improved Prod O2L was in a quandry as to how to lighten his cars weight. His Commodore had plenty of straightline power, but was carrying to much weight to be nimble enough to dance through the turns and maximise his power advantage. It seems this year John has found, if not all, surely a part of the answer, as his front grid qualifying and two seconds and a third place have given his championship aspirations an excellent boost. Hounded by the fire breathing twin RX7’s of the Ingram brothers sandwiching McKenzie at almost every turn, it was like a “red rose between two thorns”. Graeme Watts didn’t have it all his own way, but did get a pair of convincing wins.

    Words and pics by Rob Annesley
    www.shotbyrob.com.au

     

    Written by Samantha Stevens · Categorized: ARDC News, Major Events, Race Meetings, SMSP News · Tagged: 3, ARDC, cams, championship, champs, motor, mrc, nsw, race, round, three

    Jun 12 2015

    MEET JIMMY VERNON

    Meet and greet ARDC Member #3463, Jimmy Vernon, one of the front-runners in the CAMS Formula Four Championship. He’s only 17, believe it or not!

    Watch the video here:

    Written by Samantha Stevens · Categorized: ARDC News, News Archive · Tagged: ARDC, Formula Four, race, SMSP, sydney motorsport park, track

    Jun 04 2013

    ARDC Members clean up at Philip Island

    ARDC Members clean up at Philip Island

    The first round of the Australian Manufacturers Championship for Production Touring Cars was run and won on Sunday 26th May. Part of the third round of the Shannons Nationals, the race was a four hour, two driver test in wet and dry conditions around the iconic Victorian circuit. Driving one of the Pro – Duct Mitsubishi EVO Xs, team owner Bob Pearson and co driver extraordinaire, Glenn Seton paced themselves in the early stages then came home with a withering run on the damp track to claim victory by over a lap.

    Bob is a long term member of the ARDC, winning the Club Championship back in 1995. Glenn has just re joined at the urging of Terry Thompson, ARDC Director, who helps out in the Pro-Duct team during race weekends. Glenn has lost none of his wet weather driving ability. The display of car control in slippery conditions during the last stint was awesome to watch. At one stage he was taking up to 7 seconds a lap from the second placed car. He also set a new lap record some 1.5 seconds faster than the previous time. The resurfacing of the famous Island track saw most lap records fall during the weekend. The new control tyre for the series is a Hankook and excellent preparation of the Pro-Duct EVO to suit this tyre played a big part in the win. Some teams seemed to have problems with the tyres but a number of cars sailed through the event with no rubber issues. The next round will be a three hour at SMSP in July, then on to QR in August before Wakefield Park in October with two 200km races – that will be a lot of laps of Wakefield.

    The final will be at Sandown in November.

    – Terry Thompson

    Written by Samantha Stevens · Categorized: ARDC News, Major Events, News Archive · Tagged: ARDC, Philip Island

    May 07 2013

    2013 ARDC Club Championship

    2013 ARDC Club Championship
    Our Board of Directors has overhauled the points scoring system for the annual ARDC Club Champion award.
    The previous point score was based on the top ten drivers in every race at ECIR/SMSP, scoring points if they were current ARDC Members. Because different racing categories competing at different levels did not race each other and took part in varying numbers of races, the only fair way of comparing performances was to work out an average of points scored per race.
    This gave an advantage to competitors in small categories and drivers could “sit on” early good results and not compete for the rest of the year to preserve a good average.
    For 2013 and beyond, ARDC Member competitors will score points in the ARDC Club Champion competition every time they run in an ARDC-organised race at Sydney Motor Sport Park. One point will be awarded to Members for every competitor they finish ahead of, including non-finishers. Then this number will be multiplied by the number of laps scored in each race. This will equalise meetings with lots of short races as compared to meetings with fewer long races.
    We will also be running a separate competition for our Supersprint competitor Members. At each of the three rounds of the NSW Supersprint Championship we are running this year, ARDC Members will score a point for every person they beat in their class. This number will then be multiplied by the number of laps completed on the day. The driver with the most points over the three meetings will be declared the ARDC Supersprint Champion for 2013.
    – Brian “The Guru” Goulding

     

    Written by Samantha Stevens · Categorized: ARDC News, News Archive · Tagged: ARDC, championship

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