Motorsport Development Program

2026 Motorsport Development Program

 

Event Number	Date	Objectives	Location
1	28th Feb	Meet and Greet Car Preparation	Entertainment Park
2	15th March	Race car & Driver preparation & scrutineering	Simply Sports Cars
3	TBA	Racing Simulator Training	TBA
4	18th April	Skid Pan Training Day	SMSP
5	Thu 23rd April	Supersprint Round Two - SMP GP Circuit - NIGHT EVENT	SMSP
6	21st June	Huntley Hill climb. Exposure to Hill Climbs	Huntley Hill Climb Dapto
7	27th - 28th June	NSWRRC 600 -  MDP Students embedded with teams	SMSP
8	TBA	Small car Cup. Driving an unfamiliar and technical circuit	Pheasant Wood Circuit
9	TBA	Graduation day Go Kart Challenge against coaches	TBA

 

 

You will also get:

• a Motorsport Australia speed license worth $174, 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 2026 program continues from the program in the last 2 years, 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. Don’t worry you will be supervised by an experienced driving mentor who has a significant amount of race car driving experience under their belt. You will receive 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. You will also need a Motorsport Australia L2S Speed Licence to participate which the NSWRRC will help you obtain. 

There are only minimal costs additional to the program. This includes a helmet (which can be found for as little as $200), tow hooks at the front and rear of the car, and a 1kg fire extinguisher ($33 at SuperCheapAuto) and a metallic mount, to the inside of your car. We can help guide you with all this.

The development program runs concurrently with the NSWRRC’s motorsport program from February till August with students participating in some of those events. The program is designed to be flexible as the training and mentoring is limited by track capacity and availability of driving mentors. The student does 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.

If you are interested in enroling in potential future motorsport development programs with us, please email the NSWRRC at race@nswrrc.com.au or use the contact links on the website.

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