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News and Updates
Checkout what's happening in the club at a glance
Added a results page to the site. I hope to supply you with all club event results from now on for your info.
Triangle Autocross Series
– now has 4 parties. Name at present Central Victorian Autocross Challenge. CVAC. Bendigo, Ballarat, Kyneton and Geelong are all in.
Concept will be as follows. 4 autocrosses at each of the clubs involved respective Autocross tracks. Each Autocross will have 80 Car fields. 20 entries per car club will be given priortory up until 1 week prior to the event then entries will be received on receipt of entry. The 4 clubs involved to be invited clubs only.
The Local Club will run the event at their track and also is responsible for trophies for local event.
Road tyres only will be allowed . Entries will close on the Friday night prior to each event.Trophies will be presented at following event. Mick Goossens will score the series. All 4 events to count towards series so no drop a round. Competitors must do 50% to get series trophy. In the interclub challenge part there will only be Class Points only. Top 5 in each class will be given points as follows 5,4,3,2,1 points from 1st to 5th. The club score will be the aggregate sum of all those points.
There will 6 Classes. The capacity classes will be BLCC’s standard and modified classes amalgamated with different capacity breaks. There is also slightly greater freedom on lightening vehicles by removal of seats and trim etc. The juniors will be for kids less than 18 years of age with cars that conform to the Junior Pentathlon series rules.
A 0-1800cc, B 1801-2500cc, C Over 2500cc, D 4WD & Specials
L Ladies, J Juniors - <18years with 2WD <2000cc Naturally Aspirated vehicle.
Autocrosses will be scored as best 3 runs on the day. 8:00 am Scrutiny, 9:45 Driver Breifing. 10:00 am start.
Entry fees will be $45 Seniors and $25 Juniors.
This used to be great series that we haven’t had for some time now. Please try to be involved so we can keep the trophy in it right place in our club rooms. We need a Directing team for our event. See above for the dates. Kyneton’s event will be early in Feb next year. 2011 as the later stages of this year get pretty busy.
Calendar changes
Jul 3rd JDP Saturday- Ben Davis
Jul 4th AX Rd1 Rescheduled. TEAM REQUIRED
Jul 11th MK3 TEAM REQUIRED
25th July Barney’s Double Banger. No practice. Double laps timed. Supp Regs already available.
8th August MK4 CDC7 TEAM REQUIRED
1st Aug GMSC Rd 1 CVAC Round 1 – Central Victorian Autocross Challenge. (Replacement for old Triangle Series) Geelong’s Round
15th Aug AX Come and Try Day followed by AX2 Rescheduled.
27th-29th August Winter Classic.
4th Sept BCC Rd 2 CVAC Round 2 At Bagshot Bendigo’s Round
12th Sept Stapos Khanacross
25th Sept Working Bee and KX at BLCC complex.
9th Oct Bagshot Rally Sprint & Bathurst at Mt Panorama
17th Oct Sandown Sprint CDC 8 Maserati Car Club
24 Oct AX Come and Try Day.
31 Oct BLCC R3 CVAC. Central Victorian Autocross Challenge. Ballarat’s Round.
6th & 7th November – Cogs Carnival MK, KX & AX. 1 Car for 3 events.
27 Nov Ararat Hillclimb (CDC Reserve if Mt Leura in June doesn’t happen)
12 Dec GFMAX & Christmas Breakup.
6th Feb 2011 KCC AX CVAC Final Round. Kyneton’s round.
A request from Peter Ellis
Bill Prowse, a founding member of our club drove an Elfin 300 sports car at the inaugural Golden Mile hillclimb at Ararat, winning his class with a single pass in the Ford BDA engine machine. This is the only car Bill ever competed in which he doesn’t have a photo of. The Elfin was a distinctive red “CanAm”styled car so if you know of photos from this event, please call Peter Ellis on 0419002007. Bill raced at the Ballarat Airport in 1947 and continues competition to this day in historic events. He would be thrilled if you could help to literally complete the picture.
Sports Sub Committee News
State Round Hillclimb – Mt Leura- 10th & 11th April. CDC Round 1
This important event is fast approaching and entries are coming in quickly. Please remember it is the first round of our Club Drivers Championship. Please by all means enter if you are doing the CDC . If however Hillclimbs aren’t your driving fancy but you can help by sitting on one of the corners for either or both of the 2 days please speak to Rod Hall 53313546 or 0438313546. We will feed you during the day and keep you busy so you don’t go to sleep. You will also see the cars up close so what more could you ask. It’s the weekend after Easter so please if possible make contact before Easter but anytime is OK. This will be one of a reduced number of major events that help our coffers this year so your assistance would be greatly appreciated. If you would like to have your
CAMS officials licence upgraded at this event whilst doing your duty please talk to Rod before hand so we can get the paperwork in hand. Supp Regs and entry forms for this event are on both BLCC and Vic Hillclimb websites. Entries close on the 31st March because of Easter shutting down the postal system.
Autocross Survey
Thank you to all those who responded to our recent survey about the preferred time to run Autocrosses. Thanks to Barney Haddon for his work in distributing the survey over the Challenge weekend and encouraging you to respond The results are now in. Daytime scored 34 votes, with Day/Night a close second on 22 votes with night-time a very distant third on 7 votes. The preferred day was Sunday with 36 votes with Saturday coming in second on 23 votes. To this end the next Autocross will by on Sunday 2nd May and will be a daytime event. Please show your support by entering this event to support the poll numbers above. VOTE WITH YOUR FEET PLEASE by entering.
We will be considering the responses to the question why the recent Autocross was poorly patronised at our next few meetings in hope that we may be able to address some of the issues. Please note that the event wasn’t cancelled but postponed. We will try to squeeze it back into the calendar at our next meeting
New Scoring Team
Rob Schenk has taken on the scoring of 3 of our series on a trial basis. Rob will score the Autocross, Motorkhana and Club Drivers
Championship series. Rod Hall will be responsible for scoring the Club Trials Championship. If you go to one of the away events
that are not run by BLCC can you endeavour to make sure Rob or Rod get the respective results to allow them to score these series.
Water and the Autocross Track
The Good Lord provided us with some handy moisture over the Challenge of Clubs weekend interspersed with some not so handy bolts of lightning which meant we didn’t need to water the Autocross track.
Please be advised that an Autocross that uses the water truck like we used to (before the water restrictions) can empty one of our tanks so we don’t have an infinite supply.
We are however prepared to run events during the day whilst we can with water available. If someone has a quick and easy way to get water to the track then please talk to us.
We have some generous offers of water in tanks and dams but have a bit of a problem getting it to the
track. The truck holds approx 4000 litres which is about 4 tonnes so its not a simple task getting it to the track. A registered truck
with or without a big tank would be really useful.(We have access to 4 1000 litre containers if you have the truck).
Tag Team Directors
Please be advised that CAMS have relaxed the requirements for the organising team when we are running events. We can now name two people as the Clerk of Course and allow both of them to compete as long as they are not both driving simultaneously. Ben McKee, Darren Wythe, Keith McElroy and Damian Faulkner have all run events under this system recently. We can also relieve the Chief Scrutineer of his duties and also allow him/her to compete after the scrutiny job is done. The only person who cant compete is the Steward. This only pertains to Club and Multi-club events and does not pertain to higher level events like State Championships.
So apart from the State round Hillclimb at Mt Leura and the Begonia Rally VRC round we can now use this system to allow you all to compete and organise/run our events. Please contact a Committee member or Sports Sub committee member if you are interested. First available event is the Autocross on 2nd May. Get in quick and beat the rush.
BLCC in Begonia Parade
The ballarat light car club to celebrate 60 years of motor sport recently took part in the Begonia parade for 2010. More info and photos can be found here
Website
After a short absence the BLCC Web site is back and hosted on a new server. The committee wish to apologize for any inconvenience this outage may have caused.
Club Memorabilia
As the club celebrates its 60th year, we are
appealing to all members to look around
your home, in all the storage places you
have forgotten, for club memorabilia.
Old photographs, programs, results, minutes,
passes, badges, shield or trophies, apparel or
anything else you think might be interesting.
These items will help to tell the story of the
club.
Please hand the items to the President or a
committee member.
Stacey Noonan
The committee and members wish to congratulate Stacey Noonan on her election to the committee of the Ballarat Light Car Club.
Event dates changed
Some date shuffling has taken place with events such as the Mt Leura Hillclimb and Coghlans Carnival, so keep an eye on our calendar of events to avoid disappointment.
More Officials Needed
If you can help with either of the events below please contact Peter or Peter / David.
Begonia Rally August 15th 2009.
Please contact Peter Stapleton on 5339 2780
Winter Classic Rally & Tour
August 28th, 29th and 30th 2009. Please contact
Peter Marmo on 5330 2838 (ah) or 0405 611 180
David Marmo on 0402 646 760
Get up close to the action!!!
Mr Brakes Winter Classic 2009,
Supplementary Regulations / Entry form available here
Renewal of Memberships: Change of System
All memberships in the Club will once again expire on 30th June. The club will not be sending individual reminders.
Members who first joined part way through the year will receive credit for the months unused. You will still need to re-join on July 1, but will only need to pay an amount calculated at $7.50 per “missing” month for the new membership year.
New members will pay pro rata at $7.50 per month to make their membership valid until June 30th. Previous members re-joining part way through a year will need to pay for the complete year.
Officials Wanted
Begonia Rally August 15th 2009.
Please contact Peter Stapleton on 5339 2780
Winter Classic Rally & Tour
August 28th, 29th and 30th 2009. Please contact
Peter Marmo on 5330 2838 (ah) or 0405 611 180
David Marmo on 0402 646 760
Get up close to the action!!!
Sponsorship
Mick Goossens is the sponsorship administrator as this has been shown to be a necessary position. It is now necessary to run your sponsorship thoughts past Mick before approaching potential sponsors. This will solve the problem of different members calling on the same businesses regularly.
Ballarat Light Car Club in the news
Begonia Rally is back in Wombat State Forest
Ballarat Light Car Club's Begonia Rally charges back to our forests
Vale Peter Jacobs
The President and members of the Ballarat Light Car Club offer their heartfelt condolences to Wendy, Vicki, Eleanor and family on the passing of Peter on 31st march, 2009.
Peter, former BLCC Committee member and Secretary, was a vibrant, intelligent and enthusiastic member of the Club, with a special concern for younger members. His generosity and friendliness towards fellow members will be sadly missed but never forgotten and his spirit will live on in the activities of the club.
Bush fire Appeal Car Show
A very successful car show was held at the City Oval on Sunday 1st March. This show was a combined effort by the car clubs of Ballarat and a very large number of vehicles were on display. The range of machinery was very diverse; race and rally cars, display cars, vintage and classic cars, hot rods, muscle cars, dragsters and all sorts of interesting road cars. Live bands and sausage sizzles added to the atmosphere of the day. Quite a good crowd seemed to be in attendance, but I have not heard the financial result of the day. The BLCC contingent contributed more than 30 cars and we played our part well. Thanks to Frank Devine, John Bourke and Trevor Ryan for willingness to organise and to all members who took part.
Editor
Philip Coghlan
The BLCC family is saddened by the passing of Philip Coghlan, Life Member, Past President and very active and dedicated member in every aspect of Club life. At the Celebration of the Life of Philip at St Patrick’s Cathedral the packed congregation were privileged to hear, as part of the tributes, a most moving tribute from Philip’s sons Richard and Stephen. Richard and Stephen spoke alternately.
(Editor).
This Month the Meeting...
...will not be the Annual Trophy Night as previously advertised.
The Committee has postponed this night until April. Book your
tickets with Frank Devine as previously arranged.
Event Photos
Added photos to the image gallery from the Mt Leura Victorian Hillclimb Championship Round 3, Saturday at the start line and sunday on the hill.
Hillclimb's in 2009
31 January State Series Rob Roy MGCC
21 & 22 February Australian Masters Games Mt Leura BLCC
21 &22 March State Series & CDC Mt Leura BLCC
28 Feb & 1 March State Series Bryant Park GCC
11 April MG National Mt Leura MGCC
19 April State Series Phillip Is PIARC
14 June State Series DECA Shepparton CC
12 July State Series Bryant Park MCC
5 & 6 September State Series & CDC Ararat or Mt Leura ACC
5 December CDC reserve Ararat ACC
Challange of clubs Trial Postponed
The Directing team are formally announcing that the 2009 Challenge
of Clubs Trial is Postponed.
Further discussions with the NCCA committee and then the VRAP will
determine whether the event will be rescheduled as a standalone
event or Cancelled.
The fire in the Muskvale area which started yesterday and grew
overnight has not yet impacted the rally route. However taking into
account the potential damage to the Rally Community if we did
compete, whether an incident occurred or not, is in our view too
great.
Winter Classic: Help Wanted
A team is getting together. Your help is requested. Please call Chris Hall on 5342 4397
Bushfire Appeal
CAR SHOW
Hot Rods
Muscle Cars
BLCC Cars
Bikes
Live Bands
Raffles
Sausage Sizzle
And Lots More
1st March 10am – 4pm
Ballarat City Oval
We need 30 or so BLCC cars
(The special ones, the old, the interesting,
or current competition cars.
They need to be neat and presentable
but not necessarily concourse if the
are a working competition vehicle)
Call Frank Devine on 5339 3999
or talk to John Bourke or Trevor
Ryan, before they need to call you.
New Website launched
To all members and other visitors, welcome to the new look Ballarat Light Car Club Web site & Forum. As President I hope you find the information offered here helpful and informative. I also encourage you to take advantage of the resources offered like the Chat Forum, with a little more utilization the forum could become an invaluable asset in your motor sport arsenal. If you have any comments or suggestions for the site please feel free to e-mail the appropriate person from the contacts page.
Russell McKenzie
President
Officials Needed
Due to a lack of officials a recent Motorkhana had to be postponed. Without the support of members who are not competing in the event we cannot physically run them. It seems we have the same set of volunteers helping out time after time. This is a call for anyone who has not done any officiating in the last 12 months or at all to check out our chat forum officials wanted section and contact the director(s) calling for help. Remember we can’t do it without you.
Photographer(s) Wanted
Photographer or Photographers are needed To take digital photos at club
events, for inclusion in
The Bulletin and Website. You don't need to be professional just handy with a camera is fine.
If you are interested, please talk to
Bulletin Editor Steve |
Webmaster Wayne on |
Motorsport Complex Sub Committee 2008
Barney Haddon is looking for expressions of interest from members willing to become part of a Sub Committee that will assist in the general running of our Motorsport Complex, track maintenance, layout, design, bookings, etc. If you are interested, please contact Barney Haddon on: 5335 5112
2008 Rule changes for Autocross
Cars must have Mud flaps on all driven wheels,
Exhaust must exit rear of car
Each competing car must have a BLCC or CAMS log book presented at scrutineering.
2008 Club Rule Books available from club rooms 29th Feb.
Bulletin Mail Out
This month we have introduced a mail out of our club news letter in electronic format to read direct from your computer or print in colour to view in all its splendor :)
Any members who are interested in receiving the bulletin in electronic format instead of a paper copy please e-mail the membership secretary and let them know your name and e-mail address