Toyosport Club - Shane McIlvenna

I trust you all had a great weekend, or day out if you didn't do both events.

I'm worn out, lol.

I am going to start by thanking those involved with the SORRA khanacross.

I strongly suggest that our members keep an eye on their calendar for upcoming events.

They have a great little thing going on called driver training where they run the kids ( or even 1st timers ) around before their first event and make sure that the kids have some car skills before entering an event.

We did 6 tests twice totalling around 15 minutes of driving, some good value.unfortunately the roads did chop a bit in some places with the volume of cars but all in all there was some long test on good hard flat open roads as well.

The day started with lunch consisting of beef and cheese pies and sausage sizzle, then all hell broke loose and in less than 4 hours all was done. we all enjoyed the pizza dinner then Team Toyosport stole what seemed like the majority of their trophies.

The following morning we started with Bacon & egg rolls and set up and were on track by 10 am, I think.

Shane Ramsay ran the grader over the already prepped track on Saturday afternoon. The track looked like a freeway, flat and wide with some of the usual bad bits gone., knocked 3 runs out and stopped for lunch by 1pm which consisted of Hamburgers with salad, paties, cheese and onion, wow. foodies weekend away ! there is evidence of Paul Shannon and Stuart Fell at the hot plates.We had a bunch of now shows resulting in up to 7 official runs undertaken by most.

The track was slippy in places, a bit dusty and mostly smooth with 2 major "bang" bits, 1 near the dam and 1 on the hill causing some damage for some but mostly ok 

accident wise we had 1 real close near miss that was nearly a huge crash but somehow was saved, 1 beached car and 2 other recoveries down the bottom of the hill that the Jacksons took care of.

Thanks goes out to Francess for the food shopping and a whole bunch of behind scenes secret squirrel stuff she does, Tara, Ruby and Francess helping out in the timing tower in Steve and Matts absence. We were thinking of you guys. I recall Dave and Dean Noble on the start line and Stuart "environmental disaster" Fell chipping in there too and the Sallow's with extinguisher duties. I will thank anyone that did anything to help during the day, it is all appreciated even if it goes unnoticed, it is needed so we keep the wheels turning.

I need to thank the few people, you know who you are that just stayed for a couple of minutes to help pack up, its not that a hard a job so don't skip out next time, chip in, many hands makes light work.

Toyosport next event Day/Night Autocross September 16 see you out there.