Ojay Clark (Born 28th July 1992) is a Simracing driver from London (UK) in the GPVWC, he has raced for Williamson Dynamics and Synergetic Motorsports in 2011. Clark drives with an unusualy low steering angle of 128 degrees with a very high steering lock. His
preferred style is to turn the wheel as little as possible and to take the corner slowly and stamp on the throttle for the best exit. As a result many of his rivals find his setups to have too much understeer.
Early Years
WCS Clio Champion Ruud Heesterbeek (left) momentarily takes the lead from Ojay Clark (right) in a race long battle that sees Clark take his first win at the F1 Legends British GP
Clark driving for Maltese Thunder at the ERLGP Mexican GP
Clark started simracing on keys 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. He developed into a faster more consistent driver scoring podiums in every race including wins at Silverstone and Monza. At Silverstone he battled a superb Ruud Heesterbeek and a race later took his first pole by one second in Monaco. Once again the season was cut short and Clark was the unofficial champion. Clark joined ERL in January 2010 after a break from simracing. 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 finished 8th in the championship on 59 points.
Superleague Career
Kieran Ryan (left) gets stuck on the curb at the 2011 Superleague Monaco GP and Clark (right) on his way to 2nd place narrowly avoids him Leaders Morris and Consiglio aren't so lucky
Clark (left) overtakes De Vos (right) round the outside of Tosa at the 2011 Superleague San Marino GP for 5th place
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.
Clark is one of the main focuses of the GPVWC "Silly Season", there is much speculation concerning whether or not he will be participating in the 2012 season and if so, for what team?
Supercup Career
Clark crosses the line at the 2011 Supercup Brazilian GP to win his first GPVWC event
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 then made the switch to Synergetic Motorsports and had prepared for his maiden race with them 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.
Masters 2010
Clark's first appearance in GPVWC was at for the Masters Series at Cadwell Park in December 2010. Clark missed the feature race and with the reverse grid started in P1 for his first event. He led the first few laps before PC issues caused him to spin and get beached, as a result he finished 10th. For the next race Clark qualified 8th and was running 4th before an engine failure. He was taken out no less than four times by other drivers in the Sprint Race and finished 12th. He again qualified 8th at the next round and was taken out at turn 1. He came back from last place and still managed to finish 8th in the feature race and 10th in the Sprint Race. Clark's results were unspectacular but his pace was fairly good.
Masters 2011
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. The next 4 rounds consisted of a string of lack of practice and disconnections. Clark scored another podium in round 7 at Istanbul only to be given a ten second penalty and pushed down to 5th.
GPVWC Superleague Results
British
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