Wakefield Park NSW Club Class Records

[Charlie Brown]

Set out below are the current MX-5 Club of NSW Class Lap Records for Wakefield Park
dating from July 2004 for Club run events including State Supersprints.

Standard road registered on Road Tyres (excluding R-spec)

NA6____1:15.80___Bryan Shedden______ 29 July 2012

NA8 No record available

NB8A___1:15.50___ Ian Vickers ________ 29 July 2012

NB8B___1:15.50___Keith Monaghan_____ 31 May 2015

NBSE___1:15.09___Dave Hammon_______ 8 July 2006

NC_____1:12.99___Luke Kovacic______ 31 May 2015


Standard road registered on Treaded Tyres (including R-spec) (as per Supersprint Type 1)

NA6____ 1:14.978___ Bryan Shedden______ 30 July 2011

NA8A No record available

NB8____ 1:13.883___ Bryan Shedden __ 7 September 2014

NB8B___ 1:15.368___ Glenn Thomas_______ 3 June 2012

NBSE No record available

NC___ 1:12.99___Luke Kovacic___________ 31 May 2015


Clubman - Limited modifications for NA’s & NB’s on Road Tyres (excluding R-spec)

NA6____ 1:15.80___Bryan Shedden______ 29 July 2012

NA8____ 1:16.87___ Allan Cruz_________ 4 September 2011

NB8A___ 1:15.45___ Bryan Shedden _____ 8 September 2014

NB8B____1:14.53___Gus Elias__________ 8 February 2015

Modified road registered on Treaded Tyres (including R-spec)

0-1600cc (as per Supersprint 2A)

NA6____ 1:12.4921___ Scott McGarry ____ 8 September 2014

1601-2000cc (as per Supersprint 2B)

NA8____ 1:12.11___ Phil Munnings____ 8 September 2014

NB8A___ 1:10.75___ Andrew Irwin____ 6 December 2009

NB8B___ 1:09.35___ Mark Hellmund___ 9 May 2011

NC_____ 1:09.52___ Ralph Thompson__ 2 February 2014

Turbo/SC (as per Supersprint 2C)

NA6____ 1:07.03___ Patrick Bramston___ 3 July 2011

NA8____ 1:12.97___ Chris White_______ 4 December 2011

NB8A___ 1:07.21___ Verne Johnson____ 8 September 2014

NB8B___ 1:13.74___ Glenn Thomas____ 4 July 2014 (Nulon Nationals)

NBSE___ 1:06.12__ Cameron Macarthur_ 31 May 2015

NBSP___ 1:09.75___ Hayden Tilley_____ 29 July 2012

NC (S/C)_1:09.10___ Russ Maxwell_______ 31 May 2015


Non road registered Race Cars (as per Supersprint Type 3) normally aspirated, turbo or supercharged on treaded tyres (including R-spec)

NA6____ 1:11.05___ Chris Gough______ 8 May 2006

NA8____ 1:10.81___ Colin Moore_____ 24 October 2010

NB8A___ 1:09.26___ David Raddatz____ 21 June 2010

NB8B___ 1:06.93___ Mark Hellmund ___ 3 November 2013

NBSE___ 1:08.95___ Chris Gough______ 7 May 2007

NBSP___ 1:08.56___ Pat Rooke_______ 3 May 2009

NC_____ 1:09.34___ Daniel Deckers___ 29 July 2012

Non road registered Race Cars (as per Supersprint Type 4) on slick tyres

NA6 (N/A)_____ 1:09.23___ Peter Browning___ 22 June 2008

NA6(Turbo) ___ 1:05.87___ George Vergotis___ 4 December 2011

NA8____ 1:05.03___ Todd Herring ___ 31 May 2015

NBSE___ 1:08.81___ Joe Macare_____ 17 September 2007

NBSP___ 1:05.50___ Brian Anderson___ 3 May 2009

NC_____1:07.05___ Daniel Deckers___ 29 July 2012


Fastest MX-5 around Wakefield – non club event

NB8B turbo__1:03.0198___ Nick Cancian__28 February 2015 during Wakefield 300 Shootout

[Hammer]

Great stuff Phil! Very informative.

Is there a general consensus on how much quicker/slower the newer versions of the MX5 over the previous one (ie. NC over NB8B over NB8A over NA8 over NA6 etc) on Class 1 specs if dríven by the same driver on identical conditions? Then there are of course the two factory turbo models (ie. SP & SE).

For instance someone told me a standard NC is about 2 seconds quicker than a standard NA8 on street tyres @ Wakefield. Is this accurate?

[Charlie Brown]

Great stuff Phil! Very informative.

Is there a general consensus on how much quicker/slower the newer versions of the MX5 over the previous one (ie. NC over NB8B over NB8A over NA8 over NA6 etc) on Class 1 specs if dríven by the same driver on identical conditions? Then there are of course the two factory turbo models (ie. SP & SE).

For instance someone told me a standard NC is about 2 seconds quicker than a standard NA8 on street tyres @ Wakefield. Is this accurate?

I punted my stock NC around (1:15.07) 2.5 second faster than my stock NB8C (1:17.76) with the same tyres, so yes the NC is faster. Also there was no difference in times between the stock NC and a stock SE with similar drivers on the same day.

I don't have a time for a stock SP on stock tyres. I have one for Peter McAulay on road tyres but his SP is not stock at a 1:13.68.

You can see from the figures that the NB8A is quicker than the NB8B by a whopping 0.2 seconds.

The main problem with getting good stock times now for the older NA models is that most are modified. If some members ran these stock NA's earlier than the date I've started and had better times, let me know and I'll chase the archived records.

[Guran]

AWESOME work Phil. Thanks for posting this list. Is there are particular reason that your records date back to only July 2004? Is that just what you had ready access to? I'm new to the MX-5 scene, so I've no idea when the club started holding track days at Wakefield Park. What's their history?

[evil_weevil]

Out of interest,
I take it you have to be part of mx5 club nsw and do those times @ an mx5 club day or mx5 sprint?

Reason I ask is Im going to wakie on sunday for a different club thats all!
wanna have a crack at class 4 - NA8 modified.

[Guran]

Phil I spotted a few things that you might like to update or comment on ...

1) William Mewett's best time in Class 1 was set on 4th May, rather than 4th April.

2) Class 2 SE best time is on the old surface if that 2006 year is correct. Suggest you add some ** to that record.

3) Some of these records appear to have been posted at supersprints rather than club track days (eg Class 7 and Class 8 NBSP on 3 May 2009). Is this why they don't appear on the records list of the club website?

4) The modified NA's of Peter Browning and Kevin Addison, are they 1.6L or 1.8L? I guess they're so modified it doesn't really matter!

[Hammer]

Out of interest,
I take it you have to be part of mx5 club nsw and do those times @ an mx5 club day or mx5 sprint?

Yes, you have to do it at a MX5 Club Track Day for your time to be on the list. You don't have to be a member to get timed. Though non-members' times are not included in the MX5 classes.

[Charlie Brown]

Is there are particular reason that your records date back to only July 2004?

Yes, I imposed on a couple of people to go and dig up the information and rather than take up their valuable time I asked for the last 5 years. As Wakefield has been resurfaced, 80% of the records will be after December 2007.

Out of interest,
I take it you have to be part of mx5 club nsw and do those times @ an mx5 club day or mx5 sprint?

Yep, El Presidentee.

Times are taken from Club days or members attending State Supersprints representing the Club.

Sure have a go at breaking the Club record but it won't count. Sorry, bragging rights only, needs to be a Club event.
The NA8 record is lower than that shown. I know Craig has a lower time and he wasn't the quickest but time prevents me fom investigating further that's why I asked for anyone who has information to forward it. I would expect that the modified NA8A record would be around the low 1:13s. Mactype might know as he had a very quick Clubman which really is in a different Class again.

The Club is holding an event at Wakefield later this month. Use Sunday as practice and come down and try at the Club meet for your record.

[Hellmun]

4) The modified NA's of Peter Browning and Kevin Addison, are they 1.6L or 1.8L? I guess they're so modified it doesn't really matter!

Neither of those 2 cars are road registered which disqualifies them from most of the competition leagues. Peters is a 1.6 but Kevin runs a 1.8.

[evil_weevil]

Well, the weather looks to be el crapolla for this sunday But still going to have fun!

Yeah I really should join the club, and do that day!

[Guran]

So when did MX-5 Club NSW first start organising these track days at Wakefield Park? Does it date back to when the track was first built in 1994? Or is it a more recent phenomena?

[Guran]

Does the MX-5 Challenge qualify as a "club run event". If so, would Daniel Decker's qualifying time of 1:05.3495 on 1st February 2009 count for this list? Actually, now that I think of it, probably not because these times were recorded with the normal start/finish line on the main straight rather than the club's start/finish in the fish-hook. I think I've answered my own question!

[Hellmun]

No that doesn't count as you said it's not an mx5 clubday. Most of those Ballistic Mx5 missiles that go in Prod sports and in the Mx5 challenge don't come to the club days except when developing/trialing something new on their cars. The FAST fast cars are significantly more expensive to run per day, I used to be surprised how often we saw the Mania car when I started in club events. Me and Irwin actauly go in all the wakefield events for the mx5 challenge now and we're pretty much mid-pack with the Atmo 2F cars. Well...depends how often we go rallying per lap

[evil_weevil]

managed a 1.15.19 on a dampish/cold track on sunday!
plenty more in it!

[marcusus]

managed a 1.15.19 on a dampish/cold track on sunday!
plenty more in it!

Damn that's quick! You running semi's or road tyres?