Jake Williams To Race In Hq's At Bathurst

As close to 60 HQ Holdens roll out along pit lane on their formation lap for the HQ Holden support races at the Armor All Bathurst 12 Hour Race on the weekend of 12-14 February, there will be a 17 year old Bathurst Light Car Club member among them.

For the past three years Williams has done a lot of traveling over the Blue Mountains with his father, former champion racer and Bathurst 24 Race class winner Steve Williams to compete in BLCC club events where he learnt his racing trade with other junior members of the local club.

Williams had a busy 2009 with his racing interrupted by the HSC, but he did several meetings, enough to obtain his full National CAMS Licence so he can compete at Mount Panorama.

Like most race drivers right around the nation, Jake has dreamt of racing on the iconic mount Panorama circuit, and very soon that dream will be fulfilled when he rolls out onto the grid in an angry pack of tyre squealing, door banging HQ race cars.

The 17 year old drove the Holton Spares HQ in the NSW HQ Holden series for several rounds and got up to 3rd at the second round of the series at Wakefield Park.

He also raced in a round of the Group N Historic championship in the HQ, and won his class in what was a very good effort.

He also did regularity events throughout the year, and posted some good results, finishing in the top three each time he entered.

Following the HSC and subsequent trip north to the annual ‘schoolies’, he snapped up an offer to test a Formula Ford for Anglo Racing at Wakefield Park where he did an exceptionally good job, so good in fact that Anglo Motorsport offered him an opportunity to continue testing during 2010, and he has agreed.

Whilst preparing for the HSC and during his period away, his father Steve Williams another BLCC member and very experienced race driver filled in for him in the HQ at two meetings, one in a HQ meeting at Oran Park the other in group N at an Eastern Creek historic meeting, and on both occasions performed extremely well, showing he had lost none of his touch.

Jake may be looking at a second event at Mount Panorama in 2010, for the ex Bob Holden 2 litre Ford Escort he crashed at Oran Park after a brake failure, is getting close to being finished after a mammoth rebuild following the accident, and Jake hopes to be able to race it in the Group A & C races at the FoSC Easter meeting.

He has done well to come back at all from the Oran Park accident. For it could have killed him it was so serious. But he is back and excited about the prospect of returning to where his career began, and the youngster will take on an angry pack of hard tough seasoned HQ Holden competitors come February 12-14, and he is sure to acquit himself well.

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