MX5 Challenge at Shannons Nationals - WITH TV!!

[mx5racing]

MX5 Challenge NSW has been invited to be part of the Shannon’s Nationals series to be held at Wakefield Park on March 6th & 7th.

Competing at the season opener will be Formula 3 Australian Drivers Championship, Commodore Cup, Sports Sedans, Future Racers and OzDrift GP.

Cost of the entry is $275 and includes 20 minutes qualifying on Saturday and 2 x 8 lap races. Sunday will consist of 3 x 10 lap races.

Additionally Simone has managed to negotiate 10 minutes of TV time for MX5 Challenge and this will be part of the usual 1hr Shannons series as shown on Speedweek and Pay TV.

We have about 16 entries from NSW competing. As this will be at Wakefield Park where the MX5 Nationals will be held in October, it might be a good chance for others to do some laps at this circuit.

If you want to enter please email simone@mx5mania.com.au and we will forward an entry form with payment details. The National series charge per category and we need to do a one of payment direct to Shannons Nationals so all payments need to be send back to us ASAP.

We apologise for the lateness in letting you know however this deal was only just finalised.

If there is anyone else you think might be interested please let them know.

[Boyracer]

Green Machine is there...

[tbro]

Hey Chris,
AASA or Cams license??


Terry

[Boyracer]

CAMS unfortunately...

[tbro]

Ahhhhhhhhhhhhhh! BUGGAR!

Thanks Lou.

Only one more AASA meet and then CAMS can't knock me back

Terry

[mx5racing]

TV has now been expanded to 20 minutes!! In car cameras are also available from the TV production company for that drivers view of the excitement

Should be a great weekend of racing!!

[Hellmun]

I've got no CAMS license and already booked into a supersprint.

Make sure someone records the TV time

[mx5racing]

Latest list of entrants -

Chris Tonna
Matilda Mravicic
David Raddatz
Chris Gough
Joe Macare
Dennis Brady
Rob Hay
Shane Otten
John Metham
Colin Moore
Jeff Parsons
Nick Cancian
Neils Halls
Lou Iezzi
Daniel Deckers
Col Faulkner
Brian Ferrabee (coming out of his self imposed exile )

Saturday

1000 Practice 1 Mazda MX5 Challenge 20 mins
1310 Qualifying 1 Mazda MX5 Challenge 20 mins
1450 Race 1 Mazda MX5 Challenge 8 laps
1545 Race 1 Mazda MX5 Challenge 8 laps

Sunday

1130 Race 3 Mazda MX5 Challenge 10 laps
1300 Race 3 Mazda MX5 Challenge 10 laps
1545 Race 3 Mazda MX5 Challenge 10 laps

Will be heaps of track time!!

Still time for a late entry - so dont miss out!!

[SKYHI]

Well done on organising such a great value weekend. Only wish I could make it down, but I need to save some cash for Bathurst

Have fun!

[mx5racing]

Credit must go to Simone from MX5 Mania who has done a massive amount of work to get this off the ground in just a couple of weeks.
Will be a great turn out and really looking forward to it.
See you at Bathurst, if not before

[mx5racing]

Final entry list -

Chris Tonna
Matilda Mravicic
David Raddatz
Chris Gough
Joe Macare
Dennis Brady
Rob Hay
Shane Otten
John Metham
Colin Moore
Nick Cancian
Neils Halls
Lou Iezzi
Daniel Deckers
Brian Ferrabee
Adam Dodd
Ed Cory

[Boyracer]

Huge...

Qualified 2nd. 1.06.7
Finished 2 and 3rd and 2 4ths...

Green machine was flying...had some great races with Shane Otten and matilda and CT...

I chickened out in the last wet race...5 year old half worn semi slicks are a bit too scary for wet driving, I'm too old for that.

Thanks Simone and the MX5 Mania crew for a fantastic weekend.

[neil d]

I was watching all weekend on Natsoft.

Well done to Matilda, CT and Lou looked close up the front.

Front 3-4 were flying.

Looking forward to the TV coverage, do you know when it will be shown?

Neil

[mx5racing]

You can catch all of the action from Wakefield Park on SBS Speedweek next Sunday, March 14 at 1:00pm, check your local television guides for broadcast details.

As it turned out it was being streamed live on the internet..... We weren't aware of this until Sunday.

Should be some good footage as we had all sorts of conditions, from rain on Friday to a fairly warm Saturday and overcast Sunday. By mid afternoon the showers began and the track was very, very slippery. I loved the last race and trying to stay ahead of David in the conditions was testing to say the least

Great driving by everyone and some cracker dices going on across the field.

A write up of the full event can be found here -

http://www.thenationals.com.au/story.asp?id=462

[Cal]

What was wrong with David's car?