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NSW Motor Race Championships – Round 7

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open wheelersAnother year of racing excitement came to a close for many of the NSW Motor Race Championships regular contenders on Sept 17/18th. The very large and enthusiastic field of 237 entrants filled SMSP’s garages, carports and the skid pan with teams bustling with activity and good camaraderie.

The Spring weather brought blue skies to practice and qualifying, but Sunday was wet, wet, wet! At one point the mid-afternoon races were shuffled around and the SuperKarts final race was abandoned due to standing and running water. Anyone in an open top got a drenching. In the Formula Cars it was noticeable that the water was playing havoc with electricals as a couple of not so insulated cars spluttered and lost power.

This weekend the super quick Radicals joined the festivities as well as the SuperKarts. Lucky for some, and not others, as the Radicals finished all their races on Saturday, and the unlucky Super Karts drew the short straw and had to race in the wet on Sunday.

Aaron Cogger went into the weekend holding a commanding lead on the championship, and with three straight wins across the weekend he put a lock on this year’s silverware, followed by previous state champion, John Pellicano.

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Aussie Cars aren’t seen at SMSP very often, but they brought the most vibrant paint jobs and well presented midget cars seen here. It is hard-fought racing, with race one seeing two simultaneous accidents on different sides of the track taking out five cars. James Duckworth is obviously the gun driver of this category, taking out all three wins in his “Nissan Altima”.

Supersports Neale Muston impressively sped round the GP track layout in the 1:27s during qualifying . He could only take one race win, however, finishing with a DNF in race 3. Mixed fortunes for his final spin of the year. John Moyes similarly looked the goods in early qualifying, but ended up with exactly the same diagnosis and result as Muston.

In 2013/14 Cetin dominated the Sports Sedan championship, in 2015 Doulman and Lacey fought it out. This year Birol Cetin has had more top three finishes coming into this weekend to once again claim the ASSA club championship as well as the NSWMRC State Championship for 2016. His final weekend finished with a 3-6-1 and the two podiums helped to keep him once again ahead of Steve Lacey who picked up second.

The HQs always give a great show, and it’s been the Osborn and Baxter show during 2016, with Brett and John swapping the lead whilst racing side by side, and even though they still hogged the top step of the podium between them again this weekend, the field has responded to their quality driving and set up a challenge of their own. Scott Walker, 2016 debutante, has spent the year doing his “time” in B grade, however he grabbed a pair of thirds and wasn’t far off the rear bumpers of both Osborn and Baxter. He has gained a great deal of confidence and experience this year, and showed it in his 1st in B-grade and 4th place overall  in the association championship. As well, Deering and Cameron  stole a 2nd place each from the masterful pair, and showed excellent adaptive driving skills in the wet.

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Sydney Motorsport Park- the fastest track in Australia!

Australian Formula One driver Mark Webber has smashed the lap record at Sydney Motorsport Park by more than five seconds at Top Gear Festival Sydney (March 9 – 10).

Webber, in his Red Bull RB7 Formula 1 car, clocked a best time of 1:13.6060 around the original GP Circuit, easily besting the previous, long-standing record of 1:19.142 set by Nico Hulkenberg during the A1GP in 2007.

Webber cut the record down to 1:15.218 on the Saturday, and promised to cull it further in his next attempt for day two of the weekend Festival with some overnight ride height and suspension changes. He did not disappoint, taking a further two seconds off in his second and final attempt.

Webber also set another record over the weekend, during the Aussie Speed Showdown race on the North Circuit track. During the race, which also featured Casey Stoner on a motorcycle and Jamie Whincup in a V8 Supercar, Webber lapped the North Circuit track in 49.277 seconds, making his average speed an astonishing 209.74 km/h.

An Australian circuit is considered fast when the average speed is over 160km/h, and no track has ever seen average speeds peaking over 200km/h. Sydney Motorsport Park and the Australian Racing Drivers’ Club are confident that Webber’s weekend lap record has made the North Circuit track the fastest racing circuit in Australia.

Sydney Motorsport Park V8 return offers great value

The Australian Racing Drivers’ Club (ARDC) has announced a one-off, celebratory ticket price to mark the return of the V8 Supercars to Sydney Motorsport Park on August 25 and 26.

To be known as the Sydney Motorsport Park 360, it offers tremendous value for fans and kicks off a week of major celebrations for the ARDC’s 60th anniversary, with the eighth running of the Australian Muscle Car Masters on the following weekend. The Sydney Motorsport Park 360 will offer a sensational, action-packed weekend of motor sport entertainment, with a single $60 pass providing general admission access – including paddock pass – for the entire weekend.

A grandstand upgrade is available for $35 and special limited on-site parking for $15.

Free parking will also be provided at the adjacent Sydney Dragway, with a shuttle bus delivering spectators to the main gate. In line with all V8 Supercar events, kids under 12 receive free admission with a paying adult. This means that a family of four with two children under 12 will be able to enjoy the two-day race meeting for only $120.

Tickets go on sale to the general public on July 9 via ticketek.com.au.

Spectators will be treated to a huge weekend of racing across two packed days, headlined by a 140km race for the V8 Supercars on Saturday and a 220km race on Sunday, with practice and qualifying both days.

While there will be plenty of V8 Supercar action, four support categories will also run across the weekend, including Aussie Racing Cars, Formula Vee, Production Sports and Improved Production/Production Touring.

This means that there will be 25 sessions of on-track action, including 14 races, across the weekend. Each support category will race once on Saturday and twice on Sunday, with much of their practice held on Friday.

ARDC CEO Glenn Matthews says that the return of the V8 Supercars in the ARDC’s 60th year was a time for celebration of Australian Motorsport, and that ticket prices for the Sydney Motorsport Park 360 reflected this celebratory mood.

“These prices come as the ARDC marks its 60th anniversary, and we are making a one-off gesture to the motor sport-loving public of Sydney to celebrate the return of the V8s and kick off a massive week of motor sport in Sydney, with the eighth Muscle Car Masters to be held the following weekend,” said Mr Matthews.

“We are very excited about the return of the V8 Supercars to Sydney Motorsport Park, and we want to share that excitement with the people of Sydney.

“We think that the amount of racing on offer, including 360km of V8 Supercar racing and four support categories, plus the fantastic ticket prices make for an unbeatable weekend of sporting entertainment. “We’re very much looking forward to it, and we hope the fans are too.”

V8 Supercars to run sprint format for Sydney Motorsport Park

The return of V8 Supercars to Sydney Motorsport Park will become a weekend race meeting with a two-race format on the traditional 3.9km Grand Prix layout.

The newly renamed and refurbished Sydney Motorsport Park, formerly Eastern Creek Raceway, will host the V8 Supercar round on August 25-26.

Sydney Motorsport Park was recently upgraded in a $12m investment by the NSW State Government and Australian Racing Drivers’ Club (ARDC).

The two-day meeting format will be trialled at Sydney Motorsport Park, promising a condensed weekend loaded with a full V8 Supercar card and support class action.

The V8 Supercars Sydney weekend will consist of two V8 Supercar 30-minute practice sessions, a qualifying session and 140km race on Saturday, while Sunday will host one morning practice session, qualifying and a longer 220km race.

Teams will use a combination of hard and soft tyres in both races.

CEO David Malone says V8 Supercars is very interested in the new section at Sydney Motorsport Park should the category return after the one-off 2012 event.

“We will be watching the first few race meetings on the extended layout with great interest.

“In the meantime, the 3.9km Grand Prix layout at Sydney Motorsport Park is a proven, known quantity and distance for V8 Supercars and the teams,” Mr Malone said.

“It has been the scene of some amazing events across 20 years, including Marcos Ambrose’s first two championships and the infamous Mark Skaife and Russell Ingall incident in 2003, right back through to the very early days of V8 Supercars.

“Given the standard of the racing and the drama of our two races at the fast-flowing Phillip Island layout last week we are in for a great two days of racing.”

ARDC CEO Glenn Matthews said he was very confident the Sydney V8 Supercars race meeting format will be successful at Sydney Motorsport Park.

“Taking an already exciting race meeting and condensing it into two days can only mean one thing – more on-track action, and more excitement for the fans,” said Mr Matthews.

“We’re very proud of the facility we’ve built here at Sydney Motorsport Park, and the Grand Prix circuit is one of four configurations now available.”

Additional announcements regarding support categories, ticket pricing and on-sale dates will be made in coming weeks.