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Yesterday , Wakefield Park , Goulburn NSW Australia ,very early start to the day because we leave from the Northern Beaches of Sydney to get to Wakefield by 7.00 am , which means cars ready & packed up with whats needed the night before & up at 2.45am to get on the road by 3.30 am , meet up at a rendezvous point at Frenchs Forest with other Porsche club members and drive 2 hours to Sutton Forest( Maccas) for brekky from there to Wakefield , its about the only time of day you can get out of Sydney without being jammed in a traffic snarl .

Perfect motorsport weather at Wakefield Park , 11 deg cel ( 51 Fah ) early morning with mild overcast conditions but dry , excellent Turbo conditions , good turn out of 61 competitors with a good selection of this century & last century Porsche cars ( lots of GT3's) ,during the morning sessions quite a few competitors slid off the track due to cool track conditions & dirt etc blown onto the track from the wind etc

Sean & I could only stay until lunchtime ( other commitments in Sydney ) so Sean Buchanan in his 1986 951 3.0L 16V ( 944 Turbo ) had only two track sessions to get a good time , but watching Sean in his 951 & Mark Bloxham in his 944 Turbo (friend & customer of ours), both in the same speed group ( speed group 1 ), Mark Bloxham in his Mexico Blue 1986 3.0L 8V battled it out on the track with Sean in both track sessions , they were not trying for good track times , they were having fun ( at high speed ) & with Wakefield being a smallish track , overtaking is only possible in a couple of spots & with 10 or so cars out on the track at one time , trying to get a good lap time is not easy , but with other Porsches to overtake its a lot more fun & makes for much more interesting in car video footage

Sean in his 32 year old ( way outdated ) Porsche 944 Turbo road car with road legal "R" spec tyres came 5th in all the outright fastest placings on the day in regards to all the GT3's , including a GT3 Cup car with racing slicks , the 944 Turbo was by far the fastest road going Porsche that drives to work 6 days a week at the track yesterday , below is the top 20 Porsche cars places for the day & the times are very tight in the top 8 places



991 GT3 RS 4.0L 1.04:1670

991GT3 RS 4.0L 1.04:3580

997 GT3 Cup Car 1.04:5010 ( on slicks )

991 GT3 RS 4.0 1.04:8080

944 Turbo 3.0 16V E85 1.05:0270 ( Sean Buchanan )

997 GT3 1.05:1100

996 GT3 1.05:1610

944 Turbo 3.0L 8V E85 1.05:1980 ( Mark Bloxham )

GT3RS 4.0

981 GT4

991 GT3

996GT3

991 GT3

981 GT4

981 GT4

997 GT3

981 Cayman

987 GT4

987 Cayman

987 Cayman

Great effort for a pair of road registered 32 year old ( heavy ) 944 Turbo road cars , could you imagine what these cars would be capable of if there were able to shed 300 Kilos of weight , because as compared to a track dedicated professionally built race version of the 32 year old 944 Turbo ( 951), thats what Sean's car is carrying around in extra road car weight

I nearly forgot to mention , both Sean's 3.0L 16V E85 fuel & Mark's 3.0L 8V E85 fuel engine's both produce between 550 HP - 580 HP ( sometimes more ) and do so reliably with wet sumps , no dry sump , Sean's 3.0L engine has been competing now for at least 5 years ( could be 6 years ? ) this way

Both of the above 3.0L 951's run a Vitesse stage V , very tuneable & great results

Many thanks to all the volunteers who turned up at Wakefield , without you fantastic help there would be no Porsche car club Super Sprints

Regards
Bruce Buchanan
Buchanan Automotive