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At our previous HRA meeting we arranged very special guest speaker Bruce Garland to drop in from lockdown in NSW. It was a huge success and Bruce’s stories (and their delivery!) was well worth the effort.
Spurred on by this ‘Guest Speaker experience’, we have again organized something very special.
Continue reading HRA October meeting
Hopefully Victorian movement restrictions will allow us to visit this stunning exhibition that goes behind the scenes of Australia’s most important industrial design studio and birthplace of GMH iconic cars at Fishermans Bend, Melbourne.
Continue reading Dream Factory: GMH Design 1964-2020
You cannot drive it this year but you can read about it in this new 250 page book just now available.
Written by Bob Watson with contributions from many that are currently HRA members, it is a wonderful tribute to 100 years of this uniquely Victoria event. It details the rally (or trial) from its beginnings in 1921 as a promotional tool for the Victorian Alpine region, the early competitors and the tortuous route right up the its place as a premier Australian championship rally event and now, an exciting and oversubscribed event for historic rally cars. There is so much detail, side notes and stories in this book about the world’s second oldest car rally that no enthusiast’s bookshelf should be without it.
You may have heard that each Alpine Rally crew member will each receive a book each in their competitor pack at its next running, and that’s true. The HRA has purchased and put aside enough copies for that.
The HRA also has secured a limited number of additional copies that club members can buy. Potential competitors are welcome to buy them too, but there will be another copy for you in your competitor pack if you successfully enter the next Alpine Rally of East Gippsland.
Each book is $35 plus $10 for postage. (i.e.: $45 per book, posted. 2 books $90 posted.)
Once we match your e-mail to a payment, your Great Alpine Contest book will be posted to you.
Should you miss out, they are also available from Bob Watson directly from his website (www.bobwatsonrally.com.au) or from the Rallysport Magazine shop (rallysportmag.com/shop)
In the future, they will be available at a club meeting for purchase (if not sold out) which will save you the postage fee (but not the fuel to get to the meeting). That might be December or February. But who knows.
Don’t delay. Order yours by email today.
The 2021 Rally Retro Festival in February was a cracker despite Covid restrictions.
The HRA plans to run the next Rally Retro Festival on the last Saturday in February 2023. The year gap is partly because that was always the plan (to run every second year) and partly because organizing for a February 2022 event has been severely restricted throughout this year.
Continue reading Next Rally Retro Festival in 2023
Next HRA Social night is back to Slot Car Racing at Mr Slot Car in Hallam. Our Camberwell Race Party venue closed so it’s off to Hallam we go..!
7pm Wednesday July 14th
3/42-46 Hallam South Road, Hallam, Victoria. 3804
Phone: 03 9796 3830
$15 to $20 per racer depending on numbers
Probably an hour of racing.
HRA is providing finger food..!
If you can make it please email me on classicstatue@bigpond.com.au or call on 0414 560 688
Now…you will need to come up with a Racer Name..! Please let me know your selected name. Have been used… Michelle Mouton, Ari, Colin McRae… you get the idea!
Have a look at their Tracks here. www.mrslotcar.com
Rob C
Hi all.
Welcome to another year of competition in the Standard Car Class. Hopefully better than last year and we are now at last years point..! One Rally down…George Woods..!
Big thank you to the team who brought us only the second Rally Regularity Event.
I believe results are now official..! We started 12 cars on a hot and muggy Saturday night. Congratulations to the following Class placings:
Continue reading SCC Bulletin 21/1 – March 2021Good news from Hon Ed:
“Bringing a little sunshine to your letterbox, the Summer 2021 issue of HRA News is coming soon.
Featuring reports on 2020s biggest events including the Bagshot Rallysprint, Valley Stages, Crap Year Challenge and HRA Christmas in the Park.
Catch-up on the last of 2020 before we dump it in the bin and slam the lid.
HRA News adds more pink Torana to your COVID normal.”
Keep an eye on your letterboxes.
HRA members are invited to participate in the HRA George Woods Rally on 20th February 2021.
Start, Finish and Service are at the Powelltown Recreation Reserve. The field is limited to only 40 competitors, get your entry in early to avoid missing out.
To suit the new competitor and other novices, the same as the 2020 George Woods Rally, the event will be a Special Stage Rally Regularity, designed to ensure that maximum speeds achieved by crews are actively controlled. This allows essentially unmodified road cars to participate. This minimises the risk, allowing a crew to experience a real rally without going to the expense of roll-cage, special seats, harnesses and FHR.
This event is also the first round of the HRA Resto Country Spares Standard Car Class. Entries are open to all HRA Grade A, B and C crews providing they are driving a log-carded Standard Car as defined by the HRA.
More officials are required at the event, please volunteer to support the first HRA event for 2021. HRA members and friends are invited to see the event up close by offering to be a Road Closure Official. No past experience required.
For further information contact Glad Fish, Clerk of Course gladfish@netspace.net.au, 0410 148 058.
Supplementary Regulations will be available on www.hra.org.au. and HRA facebook in due course.
Hi all
Well…it looks like we might have a happening Challenge.
Restrictions to lift before the events at Parwan and Avalon.
Have attached Supp Regs, Event notes and Entry form for Avalon on Sunday 15th November.
Continue reading Crapyear Challenge Update(Note – subject to Victorian Government COVID19 Regulations allowing movement within the state.)
There are three short-course events available for HRA Resto Country Spares Standard Car Class and all HRA Competitors:
Continue reading Competition update – announcing the “Crapyear Challenge”