Club Torque Spring 2021

MOTORSPORT

WAKEFIELD PARK TRACK DAY REPORT ROUND 7 7 November 2021

Words and images: Joe Kovacic

A pretty damp and wet Spring day greeted a medium field of 66 enthusiastic motorsport competitors, to the final round 7 club track day at Wakefield Park. This was our first track day back post COVID-19 lockdown. Thanks to our Clerk of Course, Ian Combes, for organising this event which entailed a lot of behind the scenes work. Because of COVID-19,

there was no sign in registrations and scrutineering. After a short first timers drivers brief, we sent out this group at 9.30am for a familiarisation session, to dry the track out behind the pace car driven by Luke Kovacic in his dad’s NC2. We had a total of five run groups, managing to give everyone a six eight minute sessions, resulting in 45 timed laps. The track temperature was cold and wet in the

morning with run-off at turns two and ten.

This resulted in plenty of spinoffs at turn two in the first session, for all five run groups. As the track dried out, there were plenty of great lap times particularly in the afternoon sessions. Once again, the track day was run under a new simplified class system comprising of five classes including, standard, clubman, super clubman, modified and open class. Benchmark times are used

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