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Ojay Clark

Superleague Career
Nationality	British
Active Years	1
Team(s)	Synergetic Motorsports Williamson Dynamics
Grand Prix	17
Championships	0
Wins	0
Podium finishes	1
Pole positions	0
Fastest laps	0
First Grand Prix	2011 Australian Grand Prix
First Win
Last Win
Last Grand Prix	2011 Singapore Grand Prix

Ojay Clark (Born 28th July 1992) is a Simracing driver from London (UK) in the GPVWC, currently racing for Williamson Dynamics in the Superleague and Synergetic Motorsports in the Supercup

Early Years

Clark started simracing in December 2008 and was immediately asked to join "Pro Drivers League" Clark was on his way to winning his maiden GP before a refuelling error forced him to hand the victory over to Jason Muscat. Pro Drivers was rebranded as F1 Legends and Clark took podiums in Australia, Turkey and a wet Silverstone before the season was cut short and he finished unofficially 6th. The second season of F1 Legends was much more successful for Clark as he developed into a faster more consistent driver scoring podiums in every race including wins at Silverstone and Monza battling a superb Ruud Heesterbeek and taking his first pole by one second in Monaco. Once again the season was cutshort and Clark was the unofficial champion. Clark joined ERL in January 2010 after a break from simracing and was less successful. Clark's season got off to a good start but turned sour and he left after five races. The second season was better as he missed only one round and finished 8th in the championship on 59 points.

Superleague Career

After participating in the last few events of the GPVWC Masters Series for Draig Racing and showing decent pace, Clark was accepted for a one year deal with Williamson Dynamics for the 2011 Superleague season. Clark managed to score points in eight of the first ten races including a 2nd place in Monaco where he was rewarded for a clean and consistent drive. Clark then made the change from driving with keys to driving with a wheel and has been known to say while his performance has increased massively as a result of this, a decline in the car's performance has led to low key results compared to what he was achieving earlier in the season. Clark was harshly disqualified from the San Marino Grand Prix for corner cutting. With five races to go Clark resigned from Williamson Dynamics and raced for Synergetic Motorsports at the Italian GP where he was running a solid 5th before a steering wheel malfunction gave him a stuck throttle resulting in a huge crash for the Englishman. The incident was set to mark the end of Clark's superleague season however two more on the spur appearances for Synergetic gave him 3 more points and allowed him to finish 7th in the championship on 55 points, one point behind Pavel Loknovski and one ahead of Mark Wicks and Nick Rowland. As a result of his top eight finish in Superleague he will be competing in The Race of Champions fought with competitors from the GPVWC and GPO Leagues.

Clark was awarded the top prizes for Best Rookie of the Season and Overachieving Driver of the Season.

Supercup Career

Clark's first Supercup race was at the 2011 Monaco Grand Prix driving for Williamson Dynamics where he crashed out of 3rd at Ste Devote. Later on in the season he would make two on the spur of the moment appearances which led to a DNF and a 7th place finish. However Clark had prepared for the next race in Brazil and dominated qualifying setting his first GPVWC pole by 0.5 seconds before dominating the race to take his first win from championship leader Bart De Vos. The next race at Monza saw Clark take 3rd place followed by an early retirement in Zandvoort several races later before being disqualified with two other drivers after finishing 3rd at the Singapore GP. Clark finished the season joint 14th with 29 points.

2011 Masters Series

Clark is currently racing in green and white livery for the new No Fear Racing team alongside Jason Muscat and Abdel Damghi. Clark qualified 2nd out of 41 competitors at feature race for round 1 of the Norisring but retired. However he came from 6th on the grid to win the Sprint Race. After 1 round he lies joint 3rd in the championship on 25 points.

GPVWC Superleague Results

Year Team AUS UAE JPN CHN RSA AUT FRA MON GBR BHR RSM TUR MEX CAN BRA ITA ESP BEL NED SIN Position Points 2011 Williamson Dynamics Synergetic Motorsports 5 5 Ret 8 4 11 6 2 8 10 DQ 8 8 9 Ret Ret 8 7th 55 GPVWC Supercup Results Year Team AUS UAE JPN CHN RSA AUT FRA MON GBR BHR RSM TUR MEX CAN BRA ITA ESP BEL NED SIN Position Points 2011 Williamson Dynamics Synergetic Motorsports Ret Ret 7 1 3 Ret DQ 16th 19