2025 Motorsport Development Program

2025 Motorsport Development Program

 

Event Number	Date	Objectives	Location
1	9th February	Car Preparation	Simply Sports Cars, Artarmon.
2	16th February	Student car scrutineering and car preparation/technical lesson	Arcadia
3	16th March	Driving Techniques Instruction Day	Arcadia
4	30th March	Supersprint Round 1 Basic racing line	SMSP Gardner Circuit
5	12th/13th April	NSWRRC 6Hr Students paired with a team & Motorsport Australia officials	SMSP Gardner Circuit
6	15th June	Supersprint Round 3 Racing line and cornering skills	SMSP North Circuit
7	5th July	Motorkhana Training	SMSP Skid Pan
8	10th August	Supersprint Round 5 Consistent lap times on a familiar circuit	SMSP North Circuit
9	Sun 7th September	Huntley Hill climb. Exposure to Hill Climbs	Huntley Hill Climb Dapto
10	Sun 30th Nov	Small car Cup. Driving an unfamiliar and technical circuit	Pheasant Wood Circuit
11	6th Dec	Christmas Party and Graduation	West Pymble
12	31st Jan	Fun Go Karting sessions against the coaches	Entertainment Park, Bankstown

 

 

Included was:

• a Motorsport Australia speed license worth $170, and
• a yearly NSWRRC club membership worth $115.

 

The New South Wales Road Racing Club (NSWRRC) motorsport development plan was established some time ago as a pathway into motorsport for women who had an interest in motor racing but had no previous experience and, perhaps, very little mechanical knowledge but were willing to learn.

The 2025 program continued from the program last year, and before that, the tradition of encouraging women in motorsport, but it has also been broadened to include juniors and, slots permitting, adult male students.

The program had a limited number of student positions available as the training has to fit in with the motorsport events on the training days and with the number of driving mentors available. 

What did you need to participate in the development program? Your own car and a willingness to learn as well as accepting the challenge of driving your car out of your normal comfort zone. The students were supervised by an experienced driving mentor who has a significant amount of race car driving experience under their belt. They received practical car maintenance and race car preparation training as well as a theoretical lesson on optimum racing lines and race driving techniques early in the program.They also received Motorsport Australia L2S Speed Licence to participate which the NSWRRC was able to help them obtain. 

The development program ran  concurrently with the NSWRRC’s motorsport program from February till October with students participating in some of those events. The program was designed to be flexible as the training and mentoring is limited by track capacity and availability of driving mentors. The student did not have to attend all the track training days in order to receive the necessary skills to drive their car around a race track in a capable and proficient manner. However, if the student attended all training events they would receive both theoretical and practical track driving training under the supervision of driving mentors as outlined in the table below.