March 2013 Mighty Mustangs dominate Classic * Calder Fun Day Sprint * Phillips Island Classic * Targa Tas preview * Big eligibility news * New Club Plate rules * And the usual bollocks... Pic courtesy Phil Wisewould General Meeting 8pm Wednesday Apr 24 Bells Hotel Sth Melbourne Torquing Heads 2012/2013 Work Ph Home Ph Fax Mobile Email President Chris Ralph 0418 318 934 [email protected] Vice President Jervis Ward 9690 4321 9690 4323 0409 137 629 [email protected] Secretary Dean Bryant 0417 012 526 0417 012 526 9551 5859 0417 012 526 [email protected] Treasurer David Floyd 9574 7733 9877 2243 9561 8731 0402 257 541 [email protected] Competition Nick Cascone 0409 959 072 0409 959 072 [email protected] Membership Jervis Ward 9690 4321 9690 4323 0409 137 629 [email protected] Club Plates Gordon Cox 9467 8900 9435 5235 9467 4590 0418 506 650 [email protected] Committee Nick Cascone 0409 959 072 9859 1186 0409 959 072 [email protected] Eligibility David Twigg 0414 875 922 9466 9737 9702 9635 0414 875 922 [email protected] Eligibility Len Read 5977 8771 5977 8771 0408 548 133 [email protected] Engine Sealing Ken Zinner 9568 0363 9568 0363 0412 171 603 Are you joking.com.au AHTCA [email protected] Editor Chris Ralph 0418 318 934 [email protected] Club Mailing Address PO Box 16 Chadstone Centre Victoria 3148 2013 Competition Calendar Championship point score rounds for your best 5 Event Organisers Location Date Type Round 1 State Series PIARC Phillip Island April 6-7 State Round 2 State Series MG Car CLub Sandown May 18-19 State Round 1 Golden Oldies Austin 7 Club Winton Short May 25-26 Historic Round 3 State Series ASSA Sandown July 20-21 State Round 2 Golden Oldies August 10-11 VHRR Winton Long Historic Round 4 State Series VMCI Phillip Island October 21-22 State Round 3 Golden Oldies November 8-10 VHRR Sandown Historic Island Magic PIARC Phillip Island November 23-24tbc Other Plus one interstate round of your choice And as well: Graham Slater Fun Day (non-champ) Calder February 24 Phillip Island Classic (non-champ, >3ltr cars only) Phillip Island March 8 -10 Australian Historic Touring Car Challenge (Muscle Car Masters) Sydney Motorsport Park Aug 30-Sept1 Sick of Playboy & Easter Bunnies? Why not spend Easter with your Race car & Crew? With all but a couple of spaces left for Easter Bathurst, Easter Mallala looks like a great alternative for those barred from Phillip Island! It’s a tight small car circuit, and you can do Collingrove Hillclimb as well should you wish. The HTCASA is running 2 grids at the Easter All Historic meeting at Malalla. The proposed format is Over and Under 3000. Free garaging for the Interstate Competitors. Stay tuned for more info earlier in the year or contact Darren Holliday at [email protected] You need it? Call Coxys! 31B Clements Ave, Bundoora & great Club pricing Ph 9467 8900 or 0418 506 650 Coxy’s Revolution Racegear. Whatever you need he can get it and at great Club pricing. Page 2 March 2013 Historic Touring Torque PresEditoro and club reg, plus a bit more… the meeting was not part of our Club Club meetings and guest speakers Championship. But that didn’t stop a big rollup of club members coming to watch Part of the changing ways of the world and help at this ever-growing event. mentioned above seems to be a drop off in attendance at monthly club meetings, so to Driving standards, our focus last year, help that we’ll be having some high profile were not an issue. There was virtually no car guest speakers this year. It’s been a Catch-22: to car contact, save for a smack on a car nose it’s embarrassing to bring a hero along to talk to a mere 25 people, but we have to start somewhere… Committee members David Brown and Nick Cascone have some good contacts Grubby Pit Monkey. between them, when we announce the names and dates, please support these meetings! Welcome to another year for Historic Touring Car racing in Victoria. Our The Calder situation competition year hasn’t started in earnest Our Calder family day – the Graham yet, but there’s been a lot going on… Slater Fun Day Sprint – was held on Feb The magazine is approximately a month 24th on a very hot day. We were all holding later than usual: those who receive email our breath a bit regarding entries but in updates will have read that this year we the end we were relieved to find it well- are doing bigger, full colour magazines, supported, even returning a $500 surplus. You’ll read in David Floyd’s Calder article but fewer of them and timed to report on Eeeww! The things crew have various events. who the club heroes were, it was a huge effort to get it up and running in three to put with . The evolution of this plan is mostly to weeks after getting the final go-ahead. do with the changing ways of the world, and even though we are an historic club we have The back story is curious. We booked to keep up with the Joneses and the timeses. and paid for the event in October last closely following one that died coming out year to Bob Jane’s company, Calder Park of a corner and a small ‘racing incident’. Fast Once upon a time, the magazine was Promotions P/L, which was removed as cars coming through the pack did not skittle a newsletter, sent out before the general Calder management just before Christmas those in front, all in all good driving from meeting each month. The newsletter and and replaced by Rodney Jane’s company, everyone. the meeting were the only two ways of Calder Park Raceway P/L. communicating. Today we have new- I spent the weekend as a pit monkey fangled things like the website containing No effort was made to repay the money, for the Jervis Ward M3, which had a few all the info and emails that can whizz out we will ask Bob for it nicely and if that small issues such as a woof in a rotor, a new urgent news in an instant. At the same time doesn’t work we’ll probably join with the radiator made too small and a diff ratio too the magazine has become something of a other clubs (most much more out of pocket short to stay with the V8s down the straight. showpiece with lots of colour pix, ads and than we are) in some sort of class action. Good grubby fun and I was grateful to be in articles. We had to decide on hearing of the the shade. The reaction to the full colour Xmas problem whether to step back and minimise Outside was my trusty tredley, which I edition was so positive that we’re making losses or to go ahead, pay again and put really needed to slip down to race control them all colour for your reading pleasure the event as a service for our members. We for the Group N races and further down to (and please don’t forget that considerate took the braver route, which although not the green paddock to our tents. Apparently courtesy flush half way through…). If you without its hiccups, proved to be a good elderly gents on treds need a helmet only get the mag in printed form, yet have decision. David Floyd’s article has more… pedaling at walking pace through the pits. an email address, please tell us what it is so Phillip Island Bah humbug to OHS, if a straw hat is good enough for Ted the Tred Brewster, its good you can receive the updates. Because the Under 3-litre cars were enough for me. So in this edition we have articles on rostered off racing this year (full fields next Calder, Phillip Island, news on eligibility year, Over 3-litre rostered off in 2015) Speaking of Ted, he and Margaret each Historic Touring Torque March 2013 Page 3 year put on a terrific spread of nibbles and Knowing full well the terrible effect the Get well soon… liaise with getting the booze, er, drinks in smell of racing fuel and exhausts on a hot Just heard that old friend and mad Mini for the after parties on Saturday and Sunday. day can have on a delicate constitution, I punter Barry Devlin was caught up in the This year they were aided and abetted by can understand their reluctance. (Having bushfires recently and spent some time in Clubman-of-the-Year Handy Dave with narrowly avoided the dreaded heaving-into- hospital… Hope that beard didn’t catch a club trailer that now boasts even more helmet syndrome myself some three decades on fire, mate, and that your injuries are cleverly tailored storage space for club stuff. ago, and a decade before that experienced repairing themselves rapidly. Well done and thanks to all. standing in a drivers’ briefing when the Many thanks to the usual: Our first State Round, the first of the whole paddock seemed to somehow rotate poinstcore events, is now just a few weeks I think these new-fangled random breath Jervis Ward for his indefatigable art away and at the time of writing we have 16 checks in the paddock may have something direction and assembly of the mag, Phil entries for the and first entries are Under going for them…) Wisewould for the pix (FaceBookers can 3-litres, obviously missing their crack at the Anyway, our congratulations to Lenny now see his shots of our cars, go to HTCAV Island.