Club Track Day - 19th August 2013

04 November 2013 / Words by David Lawler, Picture by Bryan Shedden

The Monday 19th August track day was challenging for everyone, with a temperatures around 9 degrees for most of the day coupled with winds up to 57 km/h, and intermittent showers throughout the day. A typical winters day at Wakefield Park!

For drivers, the track conditions could change each lap leading many to make off track excursions. For officials and spectators just keeping warm and dry was a challenge.

There was a good turnout for a weekday with 62 drivers, many of them having helped with running the club's NSW Supersprint event the previous day. There were 6 runs during the day, although numbers fell off over the last few runs as people left for home to escape the cold and rain.

Mark Hellmund ran his newly turbocharged NA, which while not fully sorted yet, ran strongly all day, and entertained spectators and a few other drivers with demonstrations of power trumping grip.

The much anticipated appearance of Glenn Thomas in "Clubman" class 4 did not disappoint, and he took the class win with a time of 1:15.95. Only 0.76 seconds covered the top 4 contenders in class 4 and this promises even stronger competition in this class for the rest of the 2013/14 competition year.

Fastest on the day was Patrick Bramston in class 9 with a 1:06.92.

Most entertaining driver of the day however was Mike Corbett visiting from Victoria, who consistently demonstrated the ability of his Morris Cooper S to lift the inside rear wheel on most corners of the track.

Full results from track days are available on the results page here.