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Post by kaktus on Jul 12, 2007 17:35:54 GMT 10
I was wondering if the next few races are to be held at Wakefield or if the club is going to go to other race tracks. I have no problems going to other tracks be they city or country. Perhaps some combined meetings with other clubs on race days would allow us to race against new people, see new tracks and have new challenges. Could someone please fill us in a bit about what has happened at Wakefield with costs and stuff. I think the club needs to do whatever is in its best interest to keep it going.
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Post by GKRC Publicity Officer on Jul 12, 2007 18:47:40 GMT 10
The plan at the moment is to join a few other clubs for their club days. Basically Wakefield increased their fees this year and the club has decided to pursue other venues rather than lose money at the meetings. It is not a matter of the club being in a dire situation, it is simply a matter of being priced out of Wakefield Park.
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Post by kaktus on Jul 13, 2007 17:34:35 GMT 10
Thanks for the reply. This is what I thought had happened but it is good to get confirmation. I think it is a great idea to race with the other clubs on their days with us at their tracks. I hope the club can come up with some sort of agreement with the other clubs to get a cut of the entry money from the Goulburn club members who enter. This sound like a winner for both our club and the other interested clubs. Thanks for coming up with the idea of the forum. It allows us to keep in touch with what is happening with our club and to give us some sort of voice in our club.  It is also great to see the club getting the web site up again. It saves us all trying to find info out from other people. The only thing I would like on our web site is, if the club could try to keep the points tables as up to date as possible. I undrestand this is a new site and it will take time. Thanks. |
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Post by GKRC Publicity Officer on Jul 18, 2007 13:18:17 GMT 10
Hey thanks for your comments,
Once I can get the results for the meetings so far, I will post up results and championship points. This is one thing that will be a priority for the new site.
It looks like the next meeting will be on the 12th August at Wollongong. Once this is confirmed I will post this on the website and should be communicated by other means.
Please feel free to make suggestions or criticisms of the website, the website will be updated again in the future, the current look is just an interim thing until I can get a decent program to build it with.
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Post by are on Jul 22, 2007 7:40:32 GMT 10
Great to see forum up and running and discussions going back and forth between members.
I have also become involved with some 4 stroke enduro karts (non aka-subaru robin run out of picton) and they may be racing at Canberra track and Wollongong in the future it would be nice to see these guys somehow incorporated into the program even if it was held at a country track and a 2 day schedule was held and say Saturday was open practice and a qualifying session for 4 strokes and the afternoon was say a 4hr enduro for the 4 stokes.Sunday aka racing as normal.
What about a mini enduro for jnr max,rotax lght / hvy and or tag incorporating a compulsory tyre change or driver change.If only one driver is running then he must come in stop kart exit kart and then is allowed to get back in and continue as per if there was two drivers entered in the one kart.
rules and weights etc as per aka as most of the rotax or tag karts are probably already set up to run aka.
Also maybe we could look to these mini enduro to drag some recreational karters out into the mainstream of racing by showing them that it is fun and you dont need to have the latest gear or be a up and coming world champion to have fun.Maybe look at the 4 stoke guys series where it is a team event and most of those teams have 3 - 4 drivers per kart this also makes it very cost effective as costs are split 3 - 4 ways.This might be a avenue to look at for the mini enduro concept.
How many recreational karts do you know of sitting around doing nothing or only being taken out occassionally?We need to attract these people into the sport somehow?
Anyway enough of my ramblings-just thought I would suggest some ideas.
regards ARE
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Post by Chris Parks on Jul 29, 2007 20:46:58 GMT 10
Are we going to hold a meeting at all to map the future? This has all been very sudden and not all may even know about it. I found out through a 3rd party.
On the subject of 4 stroke, I made approaches some years ago to one of the enduro organisations and it was never acknowleged by them. I suspect it is all a bit late now unfortunately.
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Post by GKRC Publicity Officer on Jul 30, 2007 11:02:13 GMT 10
Are we going to hold a meeting at all to map the future? This has all been very sudden and not all may even know about it. I found out through a 3rd party. Chris, The decision was made at the AGM, which all members were invited to. The result of the meeting was immediately posted on the website. The plan is to race at other venues until a possibility of a permanent circuit arises, whether that be a new track or returning to Wakefield Park if a better arrangement can be sought. At the moment, the club is in a strong position and these decisions were made to keep it that way. |
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Post by grasshopper on Aug 4, 2007 17:48:53 GMT 10
are the grenfell and canberra meetings 2 day events?
Great Idea, this club forum.
I think it was a good move to leave wakefield because of pricing, although it is a good track, we need to keep race fees to as low as possible to attract more entries.
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Post by GKRC Publicity Officer on Aug 8, 2007 14:34:24 GMT 10
The Grenfell meeting is a 2 day event, but I believe the Canberra meeting is a one day event.
We have discussed that there might be some trouble with the Grenfell round with accommodation, so this date may change.
A problem we are having is that many members have not provided phone numbers or email addresses on their membership forms, so it's hard to contact members apart from posting details on the internet.
If you know any other Goulburn members please inform them of the dates and find out if they have any concerns.
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Post by neville on Aug 14, 2007 10:27:43 GMT 10
What I don't understand about karting is this. We have two tracks, one at Picton and one at Windsor. Neither track is offiliated with the AKA, yet they run several kart meetings of their own volition. Both operator tell you that the reason they don't have meetings that are sanction by the AKA, is the insurance would price them out of operations. How is this so? I would have thought that running a meeting under AKA guidelines would be ran under tighter safety measures. How then does the insurance premium sky rocket because of AKA involvememt?
We now have a situation where Oran Park may be under threat due to it moving, Wakefield Park is under threat due to increased costs, talk that the new operators at Wollongong are not happy with having the WKRC run meetings there, as it costs them money?
Perhaps now is the time to debate all clubs in the greater metro area, combing as one, obtaining land somewhere in or near to the Sydney basin and building a new track, made of various configurations, so that racing does not become menotenous.
Does anyone have any thoughts about this?
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Post by GKRC Publicity Officer on Aug 14, 2007 15:42:31 GMT 10
You make some good points there Neville.
I'm not sure about Windsor, but Picton built their track without AKA input, and tried to get AKA affiliation after building the track, but run-off areas were too small. They were going to extend the track and fix these problems, but didn't for one reason or another.
There are definitely concerns about the clubs in the area having to find venues to race at, and this was discussed at our AGM.
I don't see how Wollongong City Raceway can say that they lose money on a day when the club hire the track. They may lose profit because they can't run hire karts on those days, but surely having official AKA racing is good for the track's image and exposure.
The best solution would be a new track between Goulburn, Sydney and Wollongong that the club(s) have exclusive use of.
Somewhere in the Southern Highlands maybe?
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Post by neville on Aug 14, 2007 23:01:44 GMT 10
Somewhere in that vicinity I guess. Maybe around Camden or Wilton. Maybe someone could suggest something near those areas. Anyway it would have to be a multi configuration track.
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Post by Chris Parks on Aug 15, 2007 11:57:52 GMT 10
Chris, The decision was made at the AGM, which all members were invited to. The result of the meeting was immediately posted on the website. I didn't receive any notification and did not know the website had been given a new life. I am told I am not the only one who missed out. Can we have another one to follow up and map out the future? Give me the member mailing list and I will organise it. |
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Post by GKRC Publicity Officer on Aug 15, 2007 16:05:10 GMT 10
Chris, The decision was made at the AGM, which all members were invited to. The result of the meeting was immediately posted on the website. I didn't receive any notification and did not know the website had been given a new life. I am told I am not the only one who missed out. Can we have another one to follow up and map out the future? Give me the member mailing list and I will organise it. Chris, it's under control, Mark will post out the final information when it's confirmed. There may be a problem with accommodation for the Grenfell round, so that date may change also. Thanks for offering though. I'll let Mark know you're interested in having another meeting. |
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Post by neville on Sept 11, 2007 9:13:53 GMT 10
I have recently been made aware of land in the Darkes Forest area that may be suitable for the proposal of building a go kart track. This land is owned by the 'Water board', but is not used for any specific purpose. As it is part of a non -residential area, and is basically waste land, there maybe a possibility of acquiring or using some of the land from the water board for the purpose of building a track. May have to be a small rental on the land per annum, but do others believe this may be an agenda to pursue?
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