November 2014
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NOVEMBER 2014 P O Box 27063, Mt Roskill, Auckland, New Zealand 1440 Phone: (09) 620-9797 Facsimile: (09) 620-5247 Auckland Car Club’s Monthly Magazine, Race, Rally, Clubsport and More… AUCKLAND CAR CLUB CLUB INFORMATIONCONTACT LIST President Ted Jarvis 021-635-031 [email protected] 579- Mark Sheehan 021-112-9175 [email protected] 6611 Vice President Steve 477- 021-635-439 [email protected] Melhuish 2156 486- Secretary/Treasurer Craig Holmes 021-889-488 [email protected] 1970 Membership John (Larry) 846- [email protected] Secretary Lawton 1746 Clubsport [email protected] Race [email protected] Club Captain Aaron Clarke 021-485-272 [email protected] 579- Chief Scrutineer Mark Sheehan 021-112-9175 [email protected] 6611 835- Club Rooms Hire Steve Morris 021-278-9373 [email protected] 9515 Kirsty or 021-0252- Club News [email protected] Martyn 8531 416- Mike Dias 027-483-5550 [email protected] 6765 Ross 815- 021-487-205 [email protected] Henderson 5089 834- Committee Members Brett Davy 027-250-1505 [email protected] 9300 Martyn Wells 021-0252-8513 [email protected] Natalie Waite 021-319-900 [email protected] 834- Brett Davy 021-250-1505 [email protected] 9300 MotorSport New 835- Aaron Clarke 021-485-272 [email protected] Zealand Licence 4794 Examiners 837- Peter Borman 021-442-700 0488 Web: www.aucklandcarclub.org.nz Facebook: www.facebook.com/race.rally.clubsport Note: All calls to the above numbers are to be BEFORE 9:00pm The Club thanks the Club News Advertizing Rates following for their Single Issue 12 Issues Paid 12 Issues Paid in support: Monthly Advance Quarter Page $50.00 $37.50 $371.25 Half Page $100.00 $75.00 $742.50 Full Page $200.00 $150.00 $1,485.00 Rates include display on the club’s website. Contact: Kirsty or Martyn at [email protected] AUCKLAND CAR CLUB General Clubrooms 44 Stoddard Road, Mt Roskill, Auckland Licensed Bar, Lounge, Large Screen TV Regular Club Night The club rooms are open every Thursday night from 7:30pm until 10:30pm. License examiners are usually available to assist new Members with license exams. Several members of the Executive Committee are usually available to discuss any issues or provide assistance. Club Rooms Hire Rates The Members’ Lounge and the larger hall upstairs are available for hire for special events such as birthday or anniversary parties, meetings, bingo/housie, quiz nights, training courses, etc. The Members’ Lounge has a fully equipped bar and the upstairs hall has a complete kitchen available for both venues. Special hire rates are available for Club Members. Commercial organisations and community groups receive discounts for multiple events or long-term commitments. Please direct enquiries to Steve Morris [email protected] .Special Announcement: Auckland Car Club Race Series – New Race Entry Close Off & “Payment on the day”. Hi all, We are now three rounds into our 6 round Summer Series. As you would have all seen, we have had a large number of entries at our meetings. Please appreciate that there is a lot of “behind the scene” work that goes on to ensure that we have a well-run event. To ensure that we have sufficient time to administer all of our entries, the new close off time will be WEDNESDAY 4.00 PM prior to the race date. Late entries can be made after this date but these will incur a late entry fee. Recently, we have experienced lengthy documentation at our meetings. Part of this is due to some of our members making payment on the day (race day). It is a requirement that payment for the meeting is made at the time that your entry is done on - line. You are also able to carry out your paperwork on the Thursday night before the meeting at the Auckland Car Club clubrooms along with payment if necessary. Effective for our November 2014 meeting, any late payments that are made on the day will now incur a late payment fee of an additional $30.00. Please note, this can be avoided by simply paying for your entry when you enter on line (N.B the new close off day Wednesday 4.00 pm). We understand that there may be circumstances that require late payment but it is imperative that we process our documentation in a timely manner. We thank you in advance for your assistance/cooperation with this. Kind regards, Steve Melhuish, Race Chairman Auckland Car Club. Nosey Neighbour Natalie Waite How many years have you been an Auckland Car Club Member? 6 years Do you have any nicknames? GM GIRL What was your first road car? MAZDA - then quickly followed by a trade in to get a Holden!! What hobbies do you have outside of Motorsport? Gardening, Cooking, Fishing, What’s your biggest achievement? Buying a house What’s your biggest disappointment? Buying the wrong lotto ticket each week!! haha What motivates you? Good Friends and Family Who’s your racing hero? Peter Brock What’s your worst habit? Talking too fast!! haha The Greatest Person you have ever met? ? What’s your Favourite Movie? Talladega Nights: The Ballad of Ricky Bobby Favourite Article of Clothing? Jeans & T-shirt Favourite TV Show? Bearing Sea Gold, Deadliest Catch Favourite Holiday Destination? Anywhere ! Blondes or Brunettes? Either or Favourite Colour? Black Favourite Song? Too many to list ! Favourite Drink? Bourbon Please keep your eye out for next months Nosey Neighbour and continue to find out more about your Executive Committee and people of interest. 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PHOTO TO BE CHOSEN BY PURCHASER AND A FINAL PROOF WILL BE MADE UP FOR SIGN OFF, IF CHANGES ARE REQUIRED TO THE IMAGE, BEFORE PRINTING COMMENCES. PAYMENT AT TIME OF ORDER VIA BANK TRANSFER AUCKLAND CAR CLUB HEIMGARTNER REPORT Taupo motorsport park is three and a half hours drive from Auckland slap bang in the middle of the North Island. From the outset it looked like a good weekend to practice wet weather driving! Some real Australian talent here to race. Shane Van Gisbergen, Tim Slade, Steve Owen, Jack Perkins and Paul Morris. Johnny Reid, Murphy and the usual top NZ selection were here also. Paul Morris flew in with his family, our crew arrived with the car and we all settled in on Friday. Dad bought some new pit garage partitioning which looked very pro with all our sponsors’ logos and yellow and black theme. Taupo Motorsport park was built to run the A1GP series, so is a good quality venue. It is 3.4km long with a challenging infield and a long fast straight leading into a sharp 90 degree turn and a chicane. It’s a track you either love or hate, usually starting with hate and turning to love once you master it. I like it and hold the lap record here. SATURDAY We had a busy Saturday with two practices, qualifying for both drivers and a race. Practice went well with Paul and I getting up to speed with the car and track. Paul’s qualifying session went smoothly but he deserved better than the 7th spot out of the co-drivers. Next up was my go, I went out first on used tires to get my eye in then came in and put new tires on. I managed to qualify on pole by 2 tenths. The car felt fantastic and the whole team was buzzing. RACE 1 Race 1 was a dry 30 lap race with Paul starting the car from 7th on the grid. He did a good job and managed to hand the car over in P7 after a fairly good driver change. I had to race hard to close some massive gaps and managed to get to P3 before the flag. SUNDAY Race 2 The weather was much worse, with showers coming and going making things interesting. I started the race on wets from the front row alongside Shane Van Gisbergen. The track almost straight away started to dry up! I started to struggle 5 laps in when my tyre pressures got to high so we made the decision to come in early and change to dry’s. This would prove to be a good move as a few laps later everyone else came in for tyres as I blasted around on dry’s affectively putting me 3rd.