Trackside August 2015

Hello and welcome to Trackside for the month of August.

Results for Round 2 on 21st June were as follows:

ANDREW SCADDING 01:21.90
JUSTIN WANZEK 01:22.36
DALE ASHBY 01:26.21
MICHAEL KATSIKITIS 01:26.58
JOE GRILLI 01:28.04
CHRIS CROUCH 01:29.44
PETER AXFORD 01:30.80
MALCOLM EBEL 01:33.42
DAVID PARKEN 01:26.61
NEIL HAYWOOD 01:35.96
BOB DAVENPORT 01:44.23
MARK THOMAS 01:38.19
PAUL CONNELLY 01:24.62
IAN CROUCH 01:25.79
ANDREW POULSON 01:26.08
KEITH WONG 01:24.25
DARREN FIELD 01:33.83

We were able to hold over my article until after Round 3 was run on Sunday 19th July.

We had 12 Alfa Club members competing on the day and the results are as follows:

ANDREW SCADDING 01:21.55
PETER AXFORD 01:23.84
MICHAEL KATSIKITIS 01:25.50
JAMES WILTSHIRE 01:27.49
CHRIS CROUCH 01:28.59
MALCOLM EBEL 01:34.73
ADAM SAVIS 01:31.16
NEIL HAYWOOD 01:35.88
MARK THOMAS 01:36.39
PAUL CONNELLY 01:23.72
IAN CROUCH 01:25.93
KEITH WONG 01:24.49

It was a freezing cold morning with frozen grass around the paddock area to show just how cold Mallala mornings can be. However, it turned out to be a beautiful sunny day with fabulous track conditions and several of us achieving new personal best times.

Plaques for winners of Round 3 will be handed out at the August general meeting.

The MSCA requires 82 entries to break even and as you may have realised over the past two years numbers have been declining. Therefore, effective Round 4,announced at round 2 Drivers briefing, on the 16th August, 2015, MSCA entry fees have gone up to $95.00 for members and $115.00 for non MSCA members. This is still extremely cheap compared to any other Club here and our interstate counterparts.

The trophy dinner is over for another year. A huge congratulations to all circuit sprint winners for the 2014 season.   They are as follows:

RACING UNDER 3L

FIRST             ANDREW SCADDING

SECOND        DALE ASHBY

RACING UNDER 2L

FIRST             PETER AXFORD

SECOND        CHRIS CROUCH

THIRD           MALCOLM EBEL

MODIFIED UNDER 2L

FIRST             PAUL KLOPPERS

STANDARD UNDER 3L

FIRST             IAN BARRIE

NON ALFA OVER 2L

FIRST             PAUL CONNELLY

SECOND        IAN CROUCH

SPRINT DRIVER OF THE YEAR      ANDREW SCADDING

ROOKIE OF THE YEAR            ADAM SAVIS

 

As you may know, I will not be standing again as Competition Secretary, however, I am hoping another passionate and enthusiastic club member will consider helping out in this role.

Other activities for the month of August include:

2nd August                   Hillclimb Winter Cup Round 3                       Collingrove

2nd August                   Superkart and Mod. Regularity                      Mallala

State Championships

9th August                   Motorkana Big W Series Round 4                  Monarto

22nd/23rd August        Master of Mallala Series Rnd. 3                     Mallala

30th August                 Hillclimb Wintercup Rnd 4                             Collingrove

30th August                 Motorkana Come and Try/Practice                Big W Monarto

I would like to say thank you to the rest of the committee for their help and support and also to my wife, Marlene for her unwavering enthusiasm as we work as a team.

ANDREW SCADDING

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