Newsletter of the Gippsland Go-Kart Club Inc. Reg A3138F Registered by the Australia Post Publication No. PP349712/00012 Hello members, friends & visitors and welcome to the September edition of the Gippsland Go Kart Clubs newsletter. As next month is the AGM this will be the last edition of the newsletter that Zane, Bodhi & Shannon put out, it s been fun but with School commitments, one looking at starting a possible apprenticeship & heavier work commitment for Shannon it s time for someone else to put their flair into the newsletter & keep the club informed. Another month of racing has passed & what a month it was, Gippsland s members have travelled all over the state to represent the club & bought home lots of trophy s, We now head into October with the great race Bathurst being the main attraction for many people, (for any members attending have a great time) Junior sprints is the following weekend & already a few Gippsland members are pre entered so hopefully another strong showing for Gippsland. The final round of the Country series is being held at Portland the second last weekend of October, good luck to all who attend this meeting. Well done to all Gippsland members who travelled to race. All results of Gippsland drivers can be found below. Don t forget, our monthly meetings are held the 2 nd Tuesday of the month (exact date is in the club minutes from last meeting found in the newsletter) All members are welcome to come along & see how the club is running & also have a say if they have any ideas. (Next Meeting is March) A quick shout out to all the officials who help make Gippsland go kart club the great club it is, without these ladies & gentlemen being there on the day we wouldn t go racing The Gippsland go kart club has a great family atmosphere & welcomes all new & old members to its race days & general meetings, all are welcome & remember if you know any new perspective members pass the word along & invite them to attend a race day & feel the fun atmosphere for themselves. The Gippsland Go Kart Club recommends the services and products of our sponsors. Club such as ours cannot exist without the support and assistance of our sponsors. All numbers and contact details either listed on this newsletter or are displayed around our track, check them out and give them a call, let them know where you come from! Support your sponsors that support our club!!!!
President s Report.
Meeting Name Club Supp Regs July 26 Club Day September August 31, September 1/2 Australian Kart Championships Round 5 Go Kart Club of Victoria 9 Country Series Round 5 Hamilton 15/16 Golden Power Series Round 5 Swan Hill 14/15/16 Rotax Pro Tour Round 6 TBA 23 Australasian Kart Title Goulburn Valley 30 Club Day October 6/7 Bathurst 13/14 Junior Sprint Classic Eastern Lions 20/21 Country Series Round 6 Portland 28 Club Day November 3/4 Golden Power Series Round 6 Eastern Lions 18 Junior Challenge Geelong 25 Club Day December November 30, December 1/2 Victorian State Cup 8 Karing Victoria Presentations Mildura
Below are the results of the August club day, congratulations to all who attended & raced. Australian Kart Championships Round 5 We had members compete at the final round of the Australian Kart Championship at the Go Kart Club of Victoria on the weekend. Our members had a great outing and should be pleased with their results across this weekend and their season. Thank you to everyone that competed and represented our club at these events. Special mention goes to Troy Alger who come home with two heat wins and a 5th in the TaG 125 Final, and also Jake Spencer Motorsport who bought home a 2nd place finish in the X30 final. Congratulations to all
Golden Power Series Round 5
Congratulations to our members that make the journey up to Goulburn Valley Kart Club this weekend for the Australasian Kart Titles. Check out these podium photos by Pace Images! Full results and photos to follow!
Pace Australasian Kart Titles. Our Members had a good weekend at the Goulburn Valley Kart Club for the 2018 Australasian Kart Championships. A special mention goes out to Bailey Collins who took home the prestigious Red Plate in the KA3 Junior category! Congratulations to all members on their results! Photo Images Once again congratulations to all our club members who travelled away to race & showed what a strong & friendly club Gippsland Go Kart Club is.
WORKING BEE Saturday 29th September. We are holding a working bee on the 29th of September at 9:00am. It would be great to see as many members attend and help out around the club. It should be a great day of fun and entertainment. We will provide more details on what to bring closer to the date. Hi Members, as our year progresses we head towards our AGM in October, if any members would like to see how your club is run, get along to the General meeting on the second Tuesday of each month held in the clubrooms at 7pm. This will also give you the chance to talk to your committee & maybe even put yourself forward at the AGM to help your club move forward. Hi Members, As we draw closer to the AGM we are looking for someone to take over the newsletter, Shannon, Zane & Bodhi will be ceasing there involvement in putting the newsletter out as Work, Possible apprenticeships & senior high school have all of us busy. All the relevant information such as past newsletters, newsletter email account username & password, full contact list of members will be provided. Our last newsletter will be the September newsletter, ready for someoe to take over at the start of the new club year following the AGM in October. Cheers
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- 95mm front hubs - Medium IPK axel - Size 1+ IPK standard seat - IPK gold wheels - Exhaust Brackets - (Trolley not included) $2000 Contact Mick Alger on 0401905 510 Gippsland Go Kart Club Inc. General Meeting. 11/09/2018. The general meeting of the Gippsland Go-Karts was held at our clubrooms, on Tuesday 11 th September 2018 was declared opened at 7.05 pm by President Peter Richards. Present: Anita & Barry Stratton, Geoff Medew, Ross Miller, Andrew Broadbent. Tony Correa. Lorraine & Peter Aitken, Peter Richards, Graeme & Jeanette Monds. Russell Frost, Kelsee Correa. Apologies: Glenn Wall, Lynda Richards, Phil Lane. & Mitchell Correa. New Members: NIL. Minutes from last Meeting. The minutes from the November meeting were read by members present, Moved by Graeme Monds and second by Lorraine Aitken that they be true and correct. Treasurers Report: No Report. Business Arising: Security Cameras. To be installed hopefully by the end of the month. Delegates Report: The delegates report was given by Andrew Broadbent. Andrew reported from the delegates meeting which was held was a hook up for the delegates. State President/Executive Commissioner: 2018 Victorian Sporting regs inform all clubs how club days are to be run and who they can have etc.
Sporting regs for 2019 any clubs that want changes to race meetings please put them as soon as possible. ie: Girls classes Junior sprint classic ( so we don t need to get permission from KA before the meeting it is all done). Different classes to suit your club days. Question asked by Ballarat if they could start by green light. This is not in the manual and should have been put in as a rule change. Congratulations to Go Kart Club of Victoria on a successful City of Melbourne race meeting of approx 301 entries. State Technical Coordinator: Need to get Karter s to ensure they are putting wheels on correctly had a couple come off at the weekend. Using a rattle gun is not good too much torque for the bolts. State Scrutineering Coordinator: KA100 2 x O ring in the carburetor. Weight for the TaG classes changes. Can the clubs please have their club scrutineer convey this to their members. 1. The wheels coming off are a concern. 2. Safety wires on exhaust must be on, number of karts need to be clear to read on the kart correctly. State Track Inspector: Nil report. State Officials Coordinator: (please see attached paperwork) Report 14 DPE VCS Report 15 City of Melbourne Number of competitors with penalties for not slowing down, very hard to slow down the karts after the formation line. Reports accepted: Moved Albury Wodonga. Second: Wimmera. Agenda items: Item 1. GKCV is seeking approval from Victorian Clubs to run an Endurance event at Go Kart Club of Victoria Todd Road, Port Melbourne on the Saturday 15 th December, 2018. It will comprise 3 events as follows. A TaG endurance race for Seniors 4 hours A endurance race for Juniors one hour A endurance race for Cadets forty minutes. All events to be run in the Clockwise direction at Todd Road using the full track of 1004 metres.
Re Fueling Club to speak to Tony Manson re regards to this as he has concerns with this. Moved: GKCV. Second: Albury. Carried. Item 2. 2019 Race calendar discussion. Discussion on club days- Do clubs want to re structure these dates of the last Sunday of the month Only have club days x per year?? Have a club day prior to a race meeting?? We need to have the KA calendar to assist us with the planning of KV s calendar. Trevor s calendar are clubs happy with the structure of the club days etc.? GENERAL BUSINESS: Option tyre any news with this yet. -- No news yet from KA. Ballarat Delegate: State Cup: the club was wondering why the club that has held the biggest Country series to date, cannot hold a state cup. The state voted the track capacity with the reason being that there were no oversubscribed classes. Sending people home etc. Should clubs wish to change the criteria need to put this forward as an agenda item. Wimmera Delegate: Goulburn Valley judge of facts that Trevor completed have they all been received for accreditation? All done just a couple are required to forward more information. A Grade 2 steward can they accredit judge of facts at race meetings? Yes, as long as they have a current working with children s card (not a receipt). Rochester Delegate: Informed delegates that they will not be running the 2019 State Cup. They will go behind Bairnsdale on the list. Bairnsdale to be offered the State cup for 2019. Ballarat Delegate: Timing officer accreditation. Discussion on relieving accredited person.
The accredited person trains up anyone wishing to do timing once they have knowledge of the system they will be assessed for accreditation. The timing position is just that, no other duty is to be held with it at a race meeting. Many thanks again Andrew for a thorough and complete report. Delegtes report was moved by Russell Frost and second by Graeme Monds. Correspondence In & Out: Correspondence was moved by Geoff Medew and second by Tony Correa. General Business: Geoff Medew: Drop down bumpers. Can the karters who have one still use them. Yes. Track map with stewards. C & D. OK used it. Andrew & Lorraine. Thank you for getting their heads around getting the computers working great. AGM. Notice Express? nominations. AGM. Staggered nominations. Nomination forms or open Geoff moved a motion that we nominate another driver for the Gippsland Awards. Andrew Broadbent: Re Bairnsdale State Cup. A discussion on the State cup for 2019. Andrew gave his ideas how we/them should help/run the event. Question re tyre for club day. (Hard) option. Lorraine Aitken: End of year photos or trophies. Only 5 keys left. 2018 last C & D s change it to another name. (Planning). A discussion on this item will be held. Everyone can have some ideas. Yamaha S & J motors (engines) last club day meet. GIPPSLAND GO KART CLUB; November club meet FEATURE will be the YAMAHA S & J classes. So dust them off, tune them up and BE THERE. All karts must comply with KA. Rules. Ross Miller: Congratulations to all our driver who did great at the Todd Road AKC. The drivers were: Curt Sera, Troy Alger, Clay Richards, Elly Morrow, Sam Downing. Jake Spencer, Matt Smith, Blaine Densley, Bailey Collins and Caleb Spence. Trivia night 15 th September. Ross has been arranging this. More tyres. About 300 from Ross s contacts. Thank you Ross for arranging the tyres.
Peter Richards. Move alfarno strip, timing loop. Hard wire for internet. First aid and log book. Fire extinguisher. Outside toilets. (Peter to see about this). Working bee 27 th September. See Tony Correa what needs to be done, may have to bring shovels, rakes, whipper snippers. Please come and lend a hand even for an hour, it would be greatly appreciated. Message from Lorraine. Members Entries must be closed by 8.30am. MEMBERS DO NOT FORGET OUR AGM WHICH WILL BE HELD ON THE 9 TH OCTOBER. COME ALONG AND SEE HOW THINGS ARE DONE, MAYBE HAVE SOME NEW IDEAS, Drivers: Please read the following carefully. WHEN YOU COME IN FROM RACING AND you HAVE TO HAVE YOUR KART CHECKED, THERE IS ONLY TO BE ONE PERSON WITH THE DRIVER. NO extra people to be in the scale shed. Some changes to the Tech shed, a tape or rope across. Personnel for 30 TH September, 2018 Clerk of Course: Stewards. Scales. Lap Scorers; Grid Marshall. Lights Operator: Announcer: Andrew Broadbent. Ross Miller, Graeme Monds, Phil Lane. Glenn Wall Jeanette Monds. Lorraine Aitken, Wendy Wyhoon. Rob Bumpstead Lynda Richards. Geoff Medew.
Starter: Scrutineer: First Aide: Peter Richards. Tony Correa Dean McCort If any of the above personnel cannot do the allocated job they are named for, could they please ring Anita on 51 74 3870 or 0407 74 3870 before 26//09/2018 Meeting closed 9pm. Next meeting 9 th October, 2018 commencing 7pm. MEMBERS PLEASE REMEMBER THAT OUR MEETING ON THE 9 TH OCTOBER IS OUR A. G. M. COMMITTEE MEMBERS President Peter Richards 51661655/0408542126 Vice President Ross Miller 0407 982184 Secretary Anita Stratton 51743870/0407743870 Treasurer Phil Lane 0408346849 Race Secretary Lorraine Aitken 0417302023 Licence Secretary Jade Correa 0439 769 866 VKA Delegate Russell Frost 97397109/0412321135 VKA Co Delegate Andrew Broadbent
Committee Tony Correa 0402903400 Russell Frost 97397109/0412321135 Kelsee Correa 0411 727 027 Mitchell Correa 0418 181 188 Track Inspector Tony Correa 0402903400 Geoff Medew 51342267/0413443122 Grievance Officer Kevin James 51653356 Duty of Care TBA Public Officer Anita Stratton 51743870/0407743870 Publicity Officer Curt Sera 0412 020 042 Grant Wicks 0412051886 Steve Dansie Canteen Kelsee Correa 0411727027 https://www.facebook.com/gippsland-go-kart-club-575432429222799/?fref=ts The Gippsland Go Kart Club inc. on behalf of all contributors and advertisers disclaim any liability for any statements or representations contained within this newsletter. We will not be responsible for any loss or damage incurred as a result of any items printed or omitted from this publication