HRA Committee News – August 2024

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Presidents Report

Owen reported that he managed to get a meeting with his local member of parliament who expressed strong support for the position of car clubs not losing access to current state forest areas. It was also suggested that any legislation regarding National parks would not be forthcoming in this term of government.

An update to this since the committee meeting is that we have now secured a meeting with the Minister for the Environment to put our case for retaining rallying in all the current state forest areas. Stay tuned for a report from that meeting over the coming weeks.

Other Items of Business Discussed.

  • The committee approved the release of a new Information Privacy Policy and Procedures document. This document will be published on the club website in the very near future.
  • Vice President Tim Shepherd reported on the final motorsport meeting at the Ballarat Light Car Club autocross venue which is about to be re-developed into an industrial estate. There was a large turnout of both competitors and spectators with a healthy contingent of HRA members on hand to farewell what has been a long-term and fondly remembered facility.
  • Progress on the new membership management system is now ‘full steam ahead’. Steve Hollowood is well advanced on the new website component and will start work on trialling the membership module within the next few weeks in conjunction with membership secretary Kate Officer.
  • 2025 event calendar. The VRAP opened applications for events for inclusion in the 2025 calendar. Unfortunately, the online form they used malfunctioned so there is a bit of work to ensure they captured all the applications that were actually submitted.

    If anyone is planning on running an event next year and has not yet let Matt DeVaus know about it, please do that ASAP.
  • The committee is currently working on a proposal to MA regarding the current rally licence structure and dates for equipment and apparel. This is a response to recent concerns raised by a number of HRA members about the spiralling costs and difficulty in compliance which is forcing some members to review their ability and willingness to continue as competitors.

    The committee completed a draft proposal which it will continue to develop with the support of HRA members Dave McAdam and Gerry Bashford. This will then be distributed to other rally clubs in an effort to raise further support for the proposal before submitting it to MA later this year.

    Owen Polanski
    President

    2024 HRA Championships: Progress Scores, August 2024

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    A message from the Scorer

    Many competitors have overlooked the need for Drivers and Co-drivers/Navigators to register individually. In many cases, only one crew member has been scored as they are the only one registered.

    As the registration process is new for this year, we are allowing some leeway in when you register. If you get your registration form in before the end of August, I will backdate your points to the beginning of the year. (Complete the 2024 Series Registration form here.)

    If you enter your first HRA Championship event after the start of September, make sure you register before the event starts. No backdating after the end of August.

    As long as you are registered as an HRA competitor, you do not have to enter events as an HRA crew (although we always appreciate it if you give your points to the association).

    I also need some help in getting copies of results. Most rallies end up on www.results.vicrally.com.au, so I can find them there. Please send results to me if you have them for an event that hasn’t appeared in these progress scores.

    Key members of an event’s organising committee (Clerk of Course, Assistant CoC, Checker, Secretary) are entitled to compensatory points. Ideally, the Clerk of Course for a championship event should nominate which of his/her team is to receive points, in which championship** and the role each played. This should be done by the time the event results are produced. Again, we will allow some leeway while everyone gets used to the new rules. Let’s catch up with this by the end of August—send a new registration form with your request for compensatory points in the “Note to the Competition Secretary” field.

    Nick Wright
    HRA Championship Scorer (clubscorer@hra.org.au).

    ** If the event counts for more than one car category championship for which the competitor has registered, the competitor must nominate which one they want to receive compensatory points. (Masters and Novices will be scored as well as the car category.)

    2024 HRA Club Championships – Progress Scores, August 2024 (pdf)

    2024 HRA Series Registration Form

    Kyneton Autocross, Sunday 18 August

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    Kyneton Autocross, Sunday 18 August
    HRA Autocross/Rallysprint Championship Round 5

    Supp regs are available at https://www.kynetoncarclub.com.au/supp-regs Scroll down for autocross entry and supp regs.

    HRA members should put HRA and their membership number instead of Kyneton member number (unless you are actually a Kyneton member) then scroll down and select HRA in the entry fee field.

    Entries close Friday 6 pm so you don’t have much time.

    Sorry for the late notice.

    Peter Canals
    Competition Secretary.

    1961 Shell Two Day Trial Re-run

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    Round 10 of the 2024 ProRally Standard Car Class
    Round 4 of the 2024 HRA Touring Championship

    Saturday 5 & Sunday 6 October 2024

    Welcome to the 1961 Shell Two Day Trial Re-run.

    Crews for the SHELL Two Day Trial Re-run will be traversing as close as possible the 1961 Event route. We will be using the original versions of the Broadbent’s 3 Series maps as used in 1961.Some of the original roads have disappeared and we will not be using others as there is a time constraint to get all crews to Bendigo for the half-way break on Saturday night.

    We have added to the original event in the form of a total of four relatively short Regularity Stages with two on Saturday and two on Sunday. Some crews may elect to not do these stages, doing the Tour only. There will be by-passes of these stages.

    Our starting point for the event will be the Shell Reddy Fuel Outlet at Taylors Lakes on Saturday 5th October with the first car leaving at 8am.

    We hope to get all crews into Bendigo by 6pm to allow time to get to the Bendigo Club for dinner.

    Rally Headquarters will be at the Best Western Crystal Inn 233 McIvor Highway Strathdale.

    So perhaps try to book accommodation in the area.

    For Saturday night, we have booked a room at the Bendigo Club, 22 Park Street, Strathdale. Bistro Meals will be available

    Sunday start will be at 8am from Bendigo with the finish at The Wollert Community Centre mid to late afternoon.

    The event will be using several of the 3 Series Broadbents original event maps so for event preparation crews could brush up on converting Miles to Kilometres and vice-versa.

    We hope you enjoy this event and gain some sense of what it was like to compete in a 1960’s Trials Championship event.

    The Directing Team

    Documents