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Kings Cars, Begonia Rally
2011 Series Results
Club Driver Champion and Motorkhana series reults now available for download here
2012 Young Officials Program
Presidents Report, January
Well folks welcome to 2012. Happy New Year one and all! I hope you all had a good break and are back at work all bushy tailed and fired up. I also hope you are looking forward to another years motor sport.
CAMS 2012 Officials Training Calendar
Shave The Dave, for mens health
At our Movember club night we saw Dave Stewart lose all his facial hair to the razor in the name of men's health and in doing so raised around $360 which was a great effort. Thanks Dave for being a willing lamb to the slaughter, Wayne Sanders for being the impromptu barber and Ann Robson for lending us the utensils. Thanks to all who donated and got involved in something other than cars for a change.
Ballarat Festival of Motoring
Over the Easter break a series of events were held in Ballarat to commemorate the anniversary of the 1961 Formula 1 Victoria Trophy Race. It was fitting that the Ballarat Light Car Club, who in conjunction with its parent club Light Car Club of Australia, ran the '61 event at our airfield. As in the past, an enormous amount of planning, organisation and the help of many volunteers was required. President Noel, his committee and members supported, bhelped plan and professionally ran the motorsport event on Easter Sunday, with many accolades from competitors and spectators. Event organisers John Emery and Gary Grant hope to visit a club meeting soon.
Phone Book Fling 2011
Your help urgently needed!
It's that time of year again when the Ballarat Light Car Club has its MAJOR fundraiser for the year in the form of the Phone Book Fling.
This year BLCC will deliver solely to residences and with an almost immediate start, we need your help now.
Many hands will make short work of the task. Even if you can only spare a couple of hours here and there, that is also of great help to the effort
Contact Club President, Noel Peers
Phone or Text your details.
0408 033 895
2011 Come & Try & Training Day
Like Julius Caesar and his Centurions, they came, they saw, and they conquered.
The fear of a manual gear change at least was conquered by around 25 beginner drivers on the Club’s Motorkhana area at our 2011 Training Day. As well, around 20 people gave Autocross a go for the first time. And three of our City’s Councillors were here to support us, including one whose kids got fully immersed in the driver training.
To be frank we got overwhelmed with the response from learners and people wanting to participate on the day. Continuing the frank theme, we could have done with some more helpers, but we coped (just) and people had a fantastic time.
Much appreciation goes to those who did become involved, and by the looks on your faces as well as the newcomers it was a pretty enjoyable day for you as well. If you weren’t there, I’m sure you’ll hear from someone who was, and so please consider some involvement next time the club runs one of these days. Everybody has something to contribute on days like this, and the rewards – to members as well as the club - are tangible and worth the effort. It’s my view that they are critical to the club’s longer term future and should be a regular calendar event. Perhaps even with some rally driver training thrown in.
The club’s Autocross advanced driver training was also well attended, with some quite impressive outcomes during the afternoon’s Club Autocross Round 1. (see results elsewhere in The Bulletin) – one driver found nearly 10 seconds, another 6, and most others at least 2. So that was ten bucks well spent, hey girls and guys.
Training was capped off by a new approach to Autocross Demonstration laps, and I will leave final judgement to others, but from my perspective as Director, officials managed and monitored the requirements and accountabilities for this more open approach quite clearly and quite well, and club members who drove were responsible in their driving. We will leave it to Sports Sub-committee to determine if this could be an appropriate way to conduct demonstration laps in the future.
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2011 Rules for Club Events
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