Nationals 2011

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First of all Ive got to thank the Nsw Club for putting on yet another fantastic Nationals event under some trying conditions.

As far as the weathers concerned,
this is a risk no matter where or when Any Motorsport event is held,

Theres only been one of the seven I have attended that didnt have a result.

as Phil has said if it was held at Willowbank or Warwick in Qld on the same weekend it would have been totally washed out,

and its probably always raining in the deep southern states!

Im pretty sure I did over 50 laps this year from Thursday to Sunday so I feel the trip was worthwhile as Wakefield is a fantastic track,
way better than Qr or Mp...Not as good as Bathurst Tho..

I think it would be a mistake to give up the Weekend the nationals is run on at Wakefield,as you would never get it back!

Where else can you do a hillclimb on the same circuit?

All the Australian circuits are getting busier as the years go by and Trackdays increase in popularity,

its hard enough getting a suitable date for a single Weekend day for practice at Morgan Park thats not Late November/December when its too hot for everyone..

You cant Dispute the fact that Wakefield is the Most Central as possible to hold a National Event,

and I believe this Event should always be our "Grand Final" so to speak,

It has a good mix of driving events to test out everybodys Driving and Cars strengths and weaknesses...

And to have some Car fun with like minded people...

Yes I agree the Show and Shine aspect should be an important part of a national event and given more consideration and time..

Having the cars in town on the main street Sat morning was a great part of the event a few years ago....I guess time and costs have stopped this...

It has been discussed at length about running an event in Queensland,

Im not sure we could pull of a Standalone event like the Nationals sucessfully which is why its easier to piggyback onto events like the Musclecar shootout at Qr,

which is really just a sprint event I think we got 20 cars for 4 x 5 lap sessions this year,two each day which wasnt enough tracktime IMHO.

One thing done with this event is I score a regularity within the running of the Sprint,

with fastest induvidual time run from each session per driver automatically used as their nominated "regularity time" for that session.

This allows Drivers to improve their times over the weekend without penalty and stop Sandbagging to some extent..

Winners of Sprint Trophys are not Eligible for Regularity trophys to encourage attendance of drivers with slower cars or on street tyres etc,

and after two years so far this has worked a treat with nobody actually Winning both anyway!

And for all you Qld guys that posted it would be a good idea to run an event up here you have all been automatically posted into the Qld Motor sport committee to help out for future events for trying to give me more work!

Cheers Peter..