July 2018
2. Thanks Guys, what a great day at The
Bend, unfortunately group 3 only had 10
competitive laps all day due to red flag inci-
dents.
Normal procedure would be we line up in the
pits and when the track is clear we continue.
Something to consider next time.
Cheers
Malcolm Ebel Alfa Club SA
FEEDBACK RECEIVED
to....Wes and Murray,
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Peter and I got the whole NSW team back
to Sydney last night after a little drive from
Hay in some drizzling rain. Our round trip
was about 2,600 - 2,800 kms, and one kan-
garoo. I am not looking forward to washing
tow car, trailer and MGC before another
supersprint this coming weekend, at Wake-
field park!
Many thanks to you and your club for put-
ting on such an enjoyable weekend at
Collingrove and Tailem Bend over the long
weekend, and for collating all the results
very quickly.
Peter did notice that the list of modified
MGBs was only three at the events, but
then there were four on your pointscore -
was a car re-classified?
Peter and I thoroughly enjoyed ourselves,
and both exciting sporting venues. You are
lucky fellas to have The Bend as a new
track being a world class venue. We cer-
tainly enjoyed driving on some very fresh
and perfect bitumen, although Peter had
some fuel delivery problems which slowed
his runs when the engine room was calling
for more!
Please pass on our sincere thanks to all
your members and volunteers who helped
to make this all happen, as we know from
running our supersprints in NSW how much
time & effort this takes.
Maybe we can double our NSW contingent
again next year, if we can round up a few
more drivers before they all retire.
Unfortunately we are progressing to being
more of a social club as all get on in years!
Luckily young (at heart) blokes like us are
still competing, and prepared to do some
highway driving to get there.
In the '80s our club used to host large race
meetings!
We shall be writing an article for our club
magazine.
Best regards,
from Peter Rose and Steve Perry NSW
(and hope to catch up again next year)
3 G’day Murray,
Just a quick note to you, and all who were
involved in organising and staging the
Challenge, to say thanks for a great week-
end. I know you all faced some incredible
obstacles along the way, and in spite of all
thrown at you, you pulled off a great event.
Congratulations to all of you and be very
proud of a job well done!
I want also to add my thanks to all who got
involved in helping to rescue my weekend
after suffering a rear disc failure at Collin-
grove. After discovering the problem after
lunch on the Saturday of a long weekend,
and making a few unsuccessful calls to local
MX-5’ers I knew, I resigned myself to pack-
ing up and not taking part in the remaining
competition. However the word spread
quickly that I was in strife, and the commu-
nity sprang into action., and in a relatively
short while, replacements were found and I
was on my way to collect my parts. I appre-
ciate the efforts of all of them and can only
say thankyou very much!
Finally a special thanks to one individual in
particular. Jason Edwards offered me the
use of the Lotus so as I could continue to
compete. This, in my opinion, was an ex-
tremely generous offer, but one I felt I could
not take up. As things turned out, my car
was resurrected and Jason’s offer was not
required. I must say that the generosity
shown by a fellow competitor and rival in
Jason, was enormously appreciated by me,
and again demonstrates the community
spirit of these events.
For me, Jason gets the Man of the Match
award!! Kim Cole Victoria MX5
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