Paperwork submitted to CAMS today, hopefully they will turn it around a lot quicker than the hillclimb paperwork I just ran.
In any case you will have at least 3 months to get your entry in. If you arent entered a week before the event you will pay a $30 late fee as was the case last year. The first couple of years you called my bluff because I am a sweetheart, last year you paid and the shock was evident on some faces and tones of voices. It makes it easier for me if entries are in early. If you are struggling to get your car ready in time, enter anyway. If you withdraw before the day you will get your money back. When it is easy for me, it is better for you, the racing will start earlier and be better organised. Pre entrants also go into the draw to win their entry fee back (as per last year).
A couple of things that will be different this year based on feedback from last year. 2 major issues getting cars on track on time, 1 your fault, 1 my fault.
Firstly, in accordance with the above, there will be 3 queues at checkin. If you are pre-entered, paid up, have your CURRENT licence and CURRENT club member card you will go into the priority one gold class express line and you get ticked off in 30 seconds. Go grab a coffee. If you are pre entered, paid up but are doing your licence or membership on the day you will go into business class queue. It will take you a little longer. If you dont have everything in order when you get to the front of either of those queues then you will be sent to cattle class. You will get served once all the people who have done the right thing have been served. You may or may not get out on track on time. Its the fairest system I can think of. Let me know if you have other ideas.
Secondly, the colour grouping for your car will be attached to your entry form. The scrutineers wont be making it up as they go. It will be based on your previous years times or a best estimate based on similar cars. There will be running order sheets at the tower and at scrutineering. That way everyone will know when they are due to go out. Hopefully I wont cop gobs of abuse first thing that ruin my day.
So yeah, keep an eye out for paperwork in the next few days hopefully. I think we should have all bugs ironed out and it will be the best ever. I may not have any nuts left because that is the week of my wife's 40th, but we'll see how we go. Nothing gets in the way of VW's and car racing.
I'll be at WSID on Saturday if anyone wants to bring entries / cash. Shouldn't be too hard to find the white polo with body kit in my sig.
turboty ·
So what is this? An open race day? How is the day run, can I bring my convertible 911 kit car?
1303Steve ·
Its a a Supersprint you can run whatever you have
Jak Rizzo ·
1303Steve wrote:Its a a Supersprint you can run whatever you have
We can also race in the wet................
grinderman ·
My son wants to race his near stock 2002 1.4l polo, can he purchase a CAMS licence on the day? What else would he need besides helmet?
turboty ·
So I dont need a roll cage? It does already have a hoop that is reinforced.
vw54 ·
No you dont need a roll cage but its a good safety item if fitted to your car
HappyDaze ·
I don't think you would be able to run at Wakefield Park in an OPEN car, without some form of roll-over protection.
amazeer ·
Go here to read ALL the info follow the links to all you should ever need including a link at the bottom which explains what a supersprint is. http://www.clubvw.org.au/2013supersprint
If the car is road registered you dont need a rollcage. If you DO have a roll cage it must be CAMS approved. If its not approved you may not be able to run. Stupid rule, but I dont make em. If you DO have one and it IS CAMS approved then it must be 50mm above your helmet when you are seated normally. Stupid rule... uh huh. A road reg car without a cage is eligible, road reg car with one is potentially not. It will depend on how many hours sleep a scrutineer has had.
amazeer ·
You can get your licence on the day but bring your already completed form and photo with you.
All money paid on the day must be cash. There is no eftpos available. If you dont leave something of substantial value as security then cant accept cheques either.
PAZZAN ·
what if you have a road registered buggy with a roll cage all road legal does that pass for the day??????
turboty ·
Can one driver enter more than one car? What would the extra cost be?
MISS VDUB ·
Hey Guys, Chris is just having some login issues at the moment so he's asked me to post this on his behalf...
"Should be OK, we've had buggies run before
Can have a maximum of 2 drivers per car. Entry fee is per driver."
turboty ·
turboty wrote:Can one driver enter more than one car? What would the extra cost be?
Can 1 driver have 2 cars?
amazeer ·
Thanks Ash.
Nobody has ever asked about running 2 cars before. You would have to check with Club VW committee but I would imagine it to be two payments. I dont recommend you try. Jim Richards is the only person I have seen who can really pull off driving 2 cars at the same meeting. Logistically you would probably find that it is impossible to get your full run quota. You cant be out on track in one group and at the same time be lined up in pit lane ready for the next group.
HappyDaze ·
You would obviously need 'someone' to get the other car to the track. They could have the 2nd car lined up, ready for you to jump in, and go.
Who would drive home?......You'd be to buggered.🙂
HappyDaze ·
Chris, you may need to re-classify my No.8 Beetle. Hope to have the 'new' 2276cc motor [ex Ben R.] by then. 👍
lou0060 ·
Hi Chris, I did mine on line last week, can you check it went thru ok, I did get the email reply saying it had gone thru. thanks, Lou
amazeer ·
Hi Lou, you also need to send me through a paper entry form.
amazeer ·
I'm staying in the Wakefield Park cabins on Friday night. I'm thinking that to speed things up on Saturday morning I might do some licence/documentation checking on Friday night. Not sure where I would do it. Maybe at the Paragon or a pub/club. How many would take up that offer?
Entry list is starting to look a lot healthier. We need a few more F Vees or clubmans to fill up that group.
Type 3 over 4000cc
31, Alex Holzl, Skyline
151, Len Cowan, Toyota Supra
311, Deiter Holzl, Skyline
Type 4 1601-2000cc
56, Paul Wright, VW Golf
Type 4 2001-4000cc
44, James Russell, Golf VR6
54,Lloyd Davies,Audi S4(B5)
88, Andrew Kemp, Mk3 Golf
96, Rudi Frank, VW Beetle
154,Peter Davies,Audi S4(B5)
Luis Guevara,VW Beetle
Type 4 over 4000cc
141, Ben Seehusen, BMW M3
Type 5 0 - 2000cc
22, Craig Hughes, Formula Vee
258, Stephen Hooker, Jedi MkIV
Type SV 1601-2000cc
00, Tim Eldred, VW Beetle
5, Damien Pell, VW Beetle
111, Jamie Clapham, Beetle
Type SV 2001-4000cc
4, Guy Harding, Golf R
11, Paul Zanello, J/S Buggy
77, Gary Dower, Golf R
82, Arno Breutmann, Golf GTI
106, Jak Rizzo, Superbug
303, Steve Carter, 1303 L Bug
Matt Berry, TBA
1303Steve ·
Hi Chris
You can do my documentation Friday night, the field is looking a bit better now.
Steve
amazeer ·
List of entries as sent to the timing contractors tonight. Yep I'm aware I have two car #11's. Someone will need to change to 111. There maybe a couple more entries in the mailbox and its not too late to enter. If you know of any missing cars from the list please let me know. I dont know if the Paragon will appreciate it but I will do some simple licence and membership checking on Friday night. If you have them both and they just need to be sighted drop on in. My mobile number is 0423 189 679 if you want to send me a txt to confirm I am there. Paragon cafe is on the right as you head south on main street, orange neon sign out front. Good food and licenced.
71 Ayden Cowley 1B CLUBVW SEAT Ibiza
24 Martin Lanza 1C BMWDC Skoda Octavia
- David Johnson 1C CLUBVW Skoda Octavia
114 Justin Holden 2A WSCC Honda Civic
0 Tim Eldred 2B CLUBVW VW Beetle
28 Russell Sheffield 2B CLUBVW VW Golf GTI
353 Aaron Hawker 2C CLUBVW VW Golf
1721 Danny O'Leary 3A WSCC Honda Civic
8 Greg Mackie 3B CLUBVW VW Beetle
13 Martin Fox 3B CLUBVW VW Beetle
131 Troy Traeger 3B MGCC VW Beetle
268 John Ladomatos 3B CLUBVW VW Beetle S
- Boris Orazem 3B CLUBVW VW Beetle
- Rene Felkl 3C SCCSA VW Beetle
31 Alex Holzl 3D ARDC Nissan Skyline
151 Len Cowan 3D WSCC Toyota Celica
311 Dieter Holzl 3D ARDC Nissan Skyline
17 Joanne Bell 4A WSCC Morris Mini
172 Robert Bell 4A WSCC Morris Mini
56 Paul Wright 4B WSCC VW Golf
108 Miguel Pires 4B JSCC Diahatsu Charade
44 James Russell 4C CLUBVW VW Golf VR6
88 Andrew Kemp 4C CLUBVW VW Golf VR6
96 Rudi Frank 4C CLUBVW VW Beetle
141 Ben Seehusen 4C BMWDC BMW M3
721 Warren Bell 4C WSCC Datsun Stanza
- Luis Guevara 4C HRCCQ VW Beetle
55 Ronald Tapp 4D WSCC Holden Commodore
154 Lloyd Davies 4D PIARC Audi S4
154 Peter Davies 4D PIARC Audi S4
22 Craig Hughes 5A FVAQ Hughes Vee
258 Stephen Hooker 5C WSCC Jedi Mk4
5 Damien Pell SVB CLUBVW VW Beetle
11 Jamie Clapham SVB CLUBVW VW Beetle
4 Guy Harding SVC PORSCHE VW Golf R
11 Paul Zanello SVC CLUBVW J&S Buggy
77 Gary Dower SVC CLUBVW VW Golf R
82 Arno Breutmann SVC CLUBVW VW Golf GTI
86 Andrew Cassie SVC CLUBVW VW Golf R
106 Jak Rizzo SVC CLUBVW VW Beetle S
303 Steve Carter SVC CLUBVW VW Beetle S
- Steve Muller VW Golf
- Greg McKinley VW Golf
- Nathan Fellows VW Golf
- Matt Berry
matberry ·
Time to start my journey to Wakefield Park and the VW Nationals. Haven't been to the Nationals since about 1998.........SWEET 🙂
See ya there.
Water Boy ·
Super keen!
amazeer ·
Woot home again! Beer o'clock!
Hope you all had a great day. Hope we addressed all the issues from the feedback given last year. Most people pre entered and that made it so much easier this morning. Thankyou everyone for helping make this our best supersprint yet. (Well I'm pretty confident that this was our best)
Not sure why our results arent on the natsoft site yet. They usually go up before the guys leave the circuit. They "should" be available here: http://racing.natsoft.com.au/results/ and then click on circuit racing.
well done Chris and the team, great day and great weather
PAZZAN ·
👍👍
OZ Towdster ·
Holy hell , Paul Zanello must have been peddling hard in J & S buggy to pull a 1.13
OZ Towdster ·
And Mr Berry a 1.21 is very respectable considering your on 135's on the front and no sway bar
Subarugears ·
OZ Towdster wrote:Holy hell , Paul Zanello must have been peddling hard in J & S buggy to pull a 1.13
It was that 5th gear and LSD he now has Andrew....😂
amazeer ·
Results are up on natsoft now. the times as posted are official times but there are quite a few cars in wrong classes. I picked up a couple with my unofficial results but I know I have missed at least one. Will have to have a closer look, probably tomorrow as I am brain dead after all the vw action. Not sure if any of those will affect winners. I hope not.
I forgot to draw the "win your entry fee back as thanks for pre-entering" at the drivers briefing. It has been drawn now, I will announce it after I get in contact with the person.
HappyDaze ·
Organisation.......Tops👍
Weather..............Tops👍
My miss-firing Beetle........Crap👎
Oh well......next year.🙄
sander288 ·
pretty brisk group of cars this year! Congrats on the event👍
PAZZAN ·
no wasn't pushing to hard just need more than 6 laps to get used to it ,heaps of grip and power untill i lost a cylinder 👍
matberry ·
Thanks for a great event to all those behind the scenes. I was happy with the way Bluey went when all's considered. Unfortunately I had reduced track time, kept loosing the fan belt on the straight, 3rd gear pulling to 150km/h 7000rpm was too much for a stock diameter pulley and belt. 🙁
OZ Towdster wrote:And Mr Berry a 1.21 is very respectable considering your on 135's on the front and no sway bar
Thanks Andrew, but I did fit a narrowed stock swaybay before the event. 😉
Craig Torrens ·
PAZZAN wrote:no wasn't pushing to hard just need more than 6 laps to get used to it ,heaps of grip and power untill i lost a cylinder 👍