Hi from the president

Will the rain ever stop, at the moment every time I think of going to the track it is wet outside, I know we need the rain though. Last Sunday was a wash out and even though the rain was falling it didn’t dampen the turnout too much, I am not sure of the exact number of people that turned up but it didn’t look to me to be far short of a full race day. We still had a good day even though the track never really dried out, bacon and eggs for breakfast and also a BBQ lunch before packing up and going home. I had a chance to do some wet weather testing with my new F104 with rubber tires on it and for an out of the box car it was nothing short of awesome, just a little under steer was evident but considering the conditions it made the car very easy to handle.

Our new transponders are on the way and should be here in time for the next race meeting and then after we have put the new set through a bit of testing to make sure all is good we will send the other set back to have the batteries replaced so the club will have two full working sets of transponders, hopefully in time for the Models & Hobbies 4 U Dandy Cup.

The working bee was a brilliant success with a dozen people in attendance, thank you for all those that came to lend a hand. We got through a lot of tidying up both inside and outside the container, painting and sorting through rubbish it was well over due for a tidy up, thanks again.

Round seven for the Autumn series is fast approaching basically every class is so close points wise that it is too early to tell who the winners are so this last round is going to be the decider, let’s hope for good weather and that I don’t leave my car sitting on the couch.

An addition to the existing track at the end of the pit straight has been designed and this will be used at the Trophy dash, also the trophies for the Autumn Series will be presented at the trophy dash. The Trophy Dash is designed to be a fun day as a bit of a wind down at the end of the autumn series it doesn’t matter if you win or lose it is all about driving your car and having fun.

Just a reminder about the table in front of the container at race meetings and cars and radios are to be placed on this table after each race and the driver is to go straight out to marshal, this is to enable us to find any transponders that haven’t been returned to the rack, and also hopefully help marshals to be at the marshalling points prior to the start of the following race. After the drivers have marshaled the race they can get their cars.

Upcoming events are on the 4^th of July we are having a Midyear trophy dash, then on the 28^th&29^th of August we are hosting the inaugural Models & Hobbies 4 U Dandenong  Cup, a two day for details see the leaflet online or email me and I will send you a copy. Please note Saturday night we will be having a BBQ after racing finishes and also the drag races will be holding a meeting under lights with all welcome to enter and join in.

The last major event for the year will be the Ron Wilson Memorial on the 5^th of December this will be a different format to normal meetings and hopefully be an enjoyable day of racing, details will be posted soon.

Always keep them shinny side up,

Darren Watts

Hi from the President,

The second of May was another great race meeting 29 entries and Super Stock ran as a separate class for the first time and showed some extremely quick lap time with the fastest lap by Gab being 10.579. The weather was looking very threatening at the start of the day however it held out until after everyone had gone and just as I was leaving after locking the gate it started to rain a little, perfect timing.

Greg is staring to pull out a bit of a lead in Lola with 84 points between him and Trevor in second place, Trevor has missed racing one round so it will come down to the last round in the series to see who’s going to win. The Legends are starting to get close at the top with only 20 points between first and third place, the track record was broken again with the first 13.935 second lap by a legend the previous fastest lap was 14.025, Shaun’s Legend is proving to be hard to stay in front of, he won two races on Sunday making it a draw for the day between Shaun and me, with only six points between us it’s going to be a fun series as it could go either way.

The drag racers will be back again on our next race day the 16^th hopefully I will get a chance to do a few passes with my Pro Stock car and find out how fast it is. Sunday the 16^th will be round five out of the seven round series, classes we are running currently are

On the Sat the 8^th of May we will be having a working bee with the main task being sealing the roof of the container. There will be other tasks such as painting, going through the boards pulling out bent ones and a general tidy up of the container.  If a few people turn up it will make the work load a lot lighter, and we might be able to get in a tuning session after all the work is done. We will be getting there at 10:00 in the morning and there will be a free BBQ lunch for those participating. Please not if power tools are to be used the person using the power tool will need to have an OH&S red card or proof they have participated in OH&S training.

One other change I would like to talk about is we are going to be setting up a table in front of the container at the next race meeting and cars and radios are to be placed on this table after each race and the driver is to go straight out to marshal, this is to enable us to make fund any transponders that haven’t been returned to the rack, and also hopefully help marshals to be at the marshalling points prior to the start of the following race. After the drivers have marshaled the race the can get their cars.

Upcoming events are on the 4^th of July we are having a Midyear trophy dash, then on the 28^th&29^th of August we are hosting the inaugural Dandenong  Cup, a two day event the details for this event will be announced on this web site over the next few weeks. The last major event for the year will be the Ron Wilson Memorial on the 5^th of December.

Always keep them shinny side up,

Darren Watts

Hi again from the president

The third round for the summer series was on Sunday and what an awesome day for racing it was, perfect weather and a huge turnout 30 entries in total including half a dozen new drivers. It was surprising how fast Jason Ercegovic was on his first time out driving a nitro car after running VRC, he could really make that car move, the guys running nitro clars will have to watch out for Jason in the future. It was also good to see the great job that Jessica did in legends, I am tipping I’ll have to watch out in a few weeks as she will be flying past me. Shaun was flying along in his legend and in one of the races joined the elite Legends 14 second club so far there are only three drivers that have done 14 second laps with a legend.

Drag racers were running next to the track and I saw some ballistically quick cars run through the 40M strip I heard rumors some cars were doing a standing 40 metres in 1.8 seconds, that sounds fast to me. Drag racing will be held on the second race day each month so bring down your drag cars and join in the fun.

The next race meeting is on the 2^nd of may I look forward to seeing everyone at the track for another day of racing.

On the 8^th of May we will be having a working bee with the main task being sealing the roof of the container. There will be other tasks such as painting, going through the boards pulling out bent ones and a general tidy up of the container.  If a few people turn up it will make the work load a lot lighter, and we might be able to get in a tuning session after all the work is done.

Upcoming events are on the 4^th of July we are having a Midyear trophy dash, then on the 28^th&29^th of August we are hosting the inaugural Dandenong  Cup, a two day event the details for this event will be announced on this web site over the next few weeks. The last major event for the year will be the Ron Wilson Memorial on the 5^th of December.

Good luck to anyone from our club that is running at the Mini nationals this weekend; it looks like it will be a great event.

Always keep them shinny side up,

Darren Watts

Again, burning hot weather gave Bendigo Classic players a fantastic weekend.  Coming second in Stock I was happy my new speed controller was worth the money, first place went to Luke Gunnell.  The satisfying thing was I managed to bet Matthew Guidotto who won the TAS State titles a month earlier…

 Jason Morris STOCK 2nd Place A Main

Trevor Waye STOCK coming a respectful 8 place A Main

Darren Watts in Mini came 2^nd place in B Main

            Plus Super Stock 3^rd place in B Main.

 These events are open for anybody to race in, great opportunity to learn more about our fantastic hobby.