Ojay Clark

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England Ojay Clark
Ojay Clark helmet.png
Nationality United Kingdom British
Superleague Career
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
Supercup Career
Active Years 1
Team(s) Williamson Dynamics
Synergetic Motorsports
Grand Prix 7
Championships 0
Wins 1
Podium finishes    2
Pole positions 1
Fastest laps 0
First Grand Prix 2011 Monaco 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

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 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 taking 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.

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. At the next round in Goldenport he finished 10th after a grid penalty before a disconnection meant he was unable to take part in the sprint race. Clark disconnected again from the feature race in the next round and failed to score points in the sprint race. He came back with a solid 3rd place in the Istanbul feature race before failing to score in the sprint race.

GPVWC Superleague Results

Year Team AUS
Australia
UAE
United Arab Emirates
JPN
Japan
CHN
China
RSA
South Africa
AUT
Austria
FRA
France
MON
Monaco
GBR
United Kingdom
BHR
Bahrain
RSM
San Marino
TUR
Turkey
MEX
Mexico
CAN
Canada
BRA
Brazil
ITA
Italy
ESP
Spain
BEL
Belgium
NED
Netherlands
SIN
Singapore
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
Australia
UAE
United Arab Emirates
JPN
Japan
CHN
China
RSA
South Africa
AUT
Austria
FRA
France
MON
Monaco
GBR
United Kingdom
BHR
Bahrain
RSM
San Marino
TUR
Turkey
MEX
Mexico
CAN
Canada
BRA
Brazil
ITA
Italy
ESP
Spain
BEL
Belgium
NED
Netherlands
SIN
Singapore
Position Points
2011 Williamson Dynamics /
Synergetic Motorsports
Ret Ret 7 1 3 Ret DQ 16th 19

GPVWC Masters Results

Year Team LAG
United States
BIR
United States
SNE
England
NOR
Germany
CAD
England
ARG
Austria
SIL
England
Points
2010 Guest Driver /
Draig Racing
Ret 10 Ret 12 8 10 13
Year Team NOR
Germany
GOL
China
ZOL
Belgium
KNO
Scotland
WAT
United States
BAT
Australia
DON
England
Points
2011 No Fear Racing Ret 1 10 DNS 31