Official Magazine of the North Shore Sporting Car Club Volume 62 | Nov 2014 Summer Tarmac Twilight Rallysprint Becomes a Reality Also in this issue... V8 Supercars Announces 2015 Calendar HSRCA Tasman Revival Meeting Isuzu Motorsports Celebrates ‘Famous Five’ as the Whole Team Completes 2014 Safari North Shore’s Molly Taylor in Funds Chase for Remaining WRC Rounds www.nsscc.com.au Wheelspin 1 November 2014 COMING EVENTS 15 November Mini Dulla Rally (SKDAC) Shallow Crossing 20 November Rd 2 Summer Tarmac Twilight Rallysprint Sydney Dragway 22 November CAMS NSW Presentation Night (RAC Club City) 1 December December Club Meeting Roseville Club 18 December Rd 3 Summer Tarmac Twilight Rallysprint Sydney Dragway 22 January Rd 4 Summer Tarmac Twilight Rallysprint Sydney Dragway 29 November Hills District State Khana Hampton ( contact Hills District) 15 February CAMS General Assembly Wentworth Hotel Sydney 19 February Rd 5 Summer Tarmac Twilight Rallysprint Sydney Dragway 19 March Rd 6 Summer Tarmac Twilight Rallysprint Sydney Dragway 18 April NSSCC Caves Classic DRS Rally 21 June NSSCC State Khana Colo 11 July NSSCC Rally of the Bay Batemans Bay NEXT MEETING MEMBERSHIP Monday 1 December 2014 at 8pm ENQUIRIES Roseville Memorial Club Pacific Highway Roseville Michael Kent [email protected] Dress Requirements Neat casual clothing, collared shirt, shoes, no thongs Ph: 0417 251 253 CLUB CONTACTS ON THE COVER President: Jon Thomson E-mail: [email protected] | Ph: 0418 641 959 Vice President: Brett Middleton E-mail: [email protected] | Ph 0408 261 043 Club Captain: Howard Grove Email: [email protected] | Ph.0408 313078 Club Treasurer: Nigel Walters Email: [email protected] | Ph: 0418 160133 Secretary: Michael Kent Peter Reynolds in full fight at our first Summer Tarmac Email [email protected] | Ph 0417 251 253 Twilight Rallysprint Wheelspin 2 November 2014 FROM THE PRESIDENT’S DESK Jon Thomson It has been a truly hectic time over the very challenging cross country rally and this Australia will continue to struggle to last couple of months at North Shore. we take our hats off to the effort those have real contenders in the World Rally Getting our Summer Tarmac Twilight guys put in. Championship. Lets hope CAMS can see Rallysprint Series up and running and all through the dust and give rallying hopefuls I had the pleasure of spending two weeks of the organisation that goes with that has a leg up. in the bush with Kumho tyre engineers been truly challenging, but tremendously testing and evaluating a new off road A couple of days after the Rallysprint I had satisfying. mud terrain tyre the company is launching the real pleasure of attending the fantastic It has taken four years to get this off the around the world and in Australia next Motorclassica in Melbourne . This is ground, going back and forth with Sydney year. A couple of weeks out there Australia’s biggest classic car Concours Dragway, CAMS, NSWE Sport and Rec. make you realise just how big a country d Elegance filling the beautiful Melbourne and the Western Sydney Parklands Trust. Australia really is and how tough it is on Exhibition Buildings with a myriad of Finally a few months ago approvals were every component in the vehicle, from the delightful cars and motorcycles from given and the Summer Tarmac Twilight driveline to the body and most particularly across the ages. It is a mighty show and Rallysprint Series was go. the tyres. They take a beating from the the outside grounds are filled with an array stones, the washaways the rocks and the of car club’s and their cars . Out of the An entry of 43 cars for the first event mulga roots. Fortunately we did not have blue and quite unexpectedly I was blown was outstanding and I am sure we will a single puncture during our 4500km trip away when North Shore club member and build on that over the next few months around north western NSW from Bourke former NSW Rally champ Miles Sandy’s as the remaining five rounds of the Series tot Tibooburra, up into Queensland across name was called out as a class winner unfold. I have to say a huge thank you to the Strezlecki track and to Innaminka with his beautiful 1971 Ferrari 365 GTC/4 to all the team who put in so much work before heading south into the Flinders taking the floret for best Modern Classic and effort to make the event happen Ranges and back to Broken Hill before a Euro against a brace of other Ferraris, including Col Fletcher, Russell Dixon, Brett dash back to Brisbane. Maseratis, Jaguars, Astons, Porsches and Middelton, Michael Kent, Phil Morley, Brett the like. Well done Miles. Wright, Scott Fletcher, Tom Quirk and Well done to one of our junior club Margaret and Ross Middleton to name members, Kris Muller who had the Well that's about all from me for this but a few, well done, without you the first opportunity to travel to Melbourne in month. Unfortunately I can’t make it to our event would not have been such a huge the recent school holidays to be a part November club meeting I have a family success. of the CAMS young driver development event to attend but looking forward to program. A promising khanacross seeing you all at the next Summer Tarmac Congratulations to Neal Bates who swept driver, Kris has battled hard to get some Twilight Rallysprint at Sydney Dragway on all before him in the inaugural rallysprint in recognition for gravel driving specialists Thursday 20 November. his ARC winning ST205 Celica partnered in the development program and this In the meantime take it easy and enjoy as usual by Coral Taylor, they beat home is a focus that we will be pushing hard yourselves. David Finnimore in his Evo 9 Lancer with with CAMS. Without some focus on Steve Marlin taking third in his Evo Lancer. Molly Taylor partnered with Adrian Coppin Of course the Rallysprint Series is a Single Club event to minimise the fuss and red tape and that has obviously seen an influx of new members to the club and we welcome all of you. We hope you enjoy North Shore as much of the rest of us do and with a mass of new members we hope a few of you will also get involved with our other events and in 2015 we will have a range of motor sport events including our Tarmac Twilight Rallysprints in January February and March, around four or five khanacross events at Colo, a DRS rally round at Hampton, our premier rally, the Rally of the Bay on 11 July and somewhere in there we want to have a supersprint at the new Luddenham circuit in Sydney’s West. It will be a busy year but will be the biggest for NSSCC in many years. At our September meeting we were regaled by Bruce Garland with his exploits in the last WA based Australian Safari. Bruce, along with another NSSCC member John Doble who co-drives for Steve Riley. Both Bruce and Johnny Doble had challenging events. It is no where near as tough as the Dakar Rally but it is still a Miles Sandy and his Ferrari 365 GTC 4 Wheelspin 3 November 2014 DAVE FINIMORE REFLECTS ON THE SUMMER TARMAC TWILIGHT RALLYSPRINT Has it really been 20 years since I was Evo 9 RS a few years ago which has only that got my blood pumping, and then last a member of NSSCC ? done 1 tarmac rally and the occasional seeing the great era of Neal v Possum in hillclimb. the 90’s that kept me inspired to compete. I don’t think there is such a thing as a In the last few years Neal and I became former rally driver, it is just that people When I saw that NSSCC had got the friends and always enjoy a good chat sometimes go on a long transport Day-Night Rallysprint up and running, it about rallying over the years and how stage. It never really leaves your mind was time to rejoin the Club and it really things have changed, both good and bad, for long, the thrill of competition and the was great to see a few familiar, if slightly and it’s especially great to see he and friendships forged in the forest always weathered, faces in the crowd at the 1st Coral back in that magic GT4 once again. stay locked away in the back of your Round. I sure look forward to catching head, and quickly come forward when up more over the Summer as well, as the From the first stage the GT4 pulled you read, see or hear a real rally car. Club holds many great memories for me 3-4 seconds on me, and that gap At the end of 1995, I sold my trusty as a young guy back in the early 90’s, I remained constant on each run as we 1600 after securing a NSW Rallysprint never missed a monthly meeting at the slowly lowered our times into the night. I PRC Title, and basically went on a long Golf Club for about 5 years. thought I might have been able to close transport stage for 10 years until I got my the gap a little on the last 2 stages as hands on a Evo 6 RS and did numerous It wasn’t without a slight bit of irony that at the dark hit hard and Neal had no driving tarmac events around Australia.