2011/2012 AGM & Windup

Limited Sprintcar Association of WA AGM & Windup was been run & done.

Yesterday Saturday 26^th May 2012 was the date for the occasion.

Well there was a great turnout to the AGM in Forrestfield. Much appreciated to all that made the time to come & thanks to all of you that put in your apologies.

Now feathers were ruffled, discussions were endless but the job was eventually done. With all but a few motions being addressed (this being as they were squashed in prior motions) & decided upon.

There was a big change made in the committee members for the 2012/2013 season.

Martin Laughton once again was a unanimous vote for Club President.

Shane Webster happily handed over the Vice President’s role to Chris Dicker.

Michelle Christensen’s position of Secretary was up for the taking with not a hand in sight to take over the spot so we moved on with hope that it would be filled soon.

Lilian Moreton who has been with the club for a lot of years decided it was time to hand over the reins of Treasurer – Debbie Wilson & Vanessa Armstrong put their hands up to do the job. After a little discussion & deliberation it was decided that Vanessa Armstrong was to become the new Treasurer with Debbie Wilson upping the stakes & taking on the new role of Secretary.

Committee Members have expanded to 4 with Mike Armstrong, Jason Craig, Mick Doble & Sue Wojtanowski taking up the challenge.

Technical Officer once again was taken by Gavin Davis.

Chief Stewards are the same with Peter Moreton & Martin Laughton staying put.

Handicapper is once again done by Peter Moreton.

Driver’s Reps are Mike Armstrong, Jason Craig & Mick Doble.

And a new role of Sponsors Committee has been made up of Martin Laughton, Steve Crabbe & Chris Dicker.

Apologies if I have missed anyone out. Congratulations to everyone on your new roles & we wish Lilian & Michelle all the best & THANKYOU for all your endless help & commitment to the club over the years.

A well earned beverage was had by everyone at the end of it with the gardens at the Rose & Crown being a popular choice. Relaxed discussions of Sprintcars & racing were had with the World of Outlaws in the US being a hot topic as well.

The Windup itself was a fantastic night. This as you all know was held at the Rose & Crown in Guildford. The room was setup nice, the food was fantastic & the atmosphere was alive all night. A big thanks to Shane Webster & his brother Matt for having a slide show of cars, crew, thrills & spills throughout the season on display for all to enjoy. Thanks to Stanley Trescuri, Peter French & Richard Hathaway for suppling these for use. Stanley Trescuri was still in photographer mode and was taking some great shots of the night for all to enjoy.

Trophy Time & all was hush.

 1^st on the agenda was handing out the replicas for the 2010/2011 winners. Club Champion – Annette Crabbe, Feature Race Wins – Chris Ackland, Rookie of the Year – Annette Crabbe, Most Improved – Shane Maskell & Club Person – Sue Wojtanowski.

Now for the 2011/2012 Trophy Winners 7 they are

“Overall on Points” for the season – 1^st Aldo De Paoli, 2^nd Gavin Davis & 3^rd Todd Davis.

“Club Champion” went to Aldo De Paoli.

John Green Fabrications – “Most Feature Race Wins” went to Todd Davis.

John Hatton Memorial – “Rookie of the Year” went to Aldo De Paoli.

Dave Henkey Memorial – “Most Improved” went to Ron Wilson.

And a worthy winner of the Club Person went to Lilian Moreton.

Congratulations to you all on a job well done. Aldo De Paoli had a whopper of a year & went home with a car full of trophy’s.

A BIG THANKS to this year’s committee members for putting on another great night. No doubt we are all itching for the next season to begin. All the best with car & engine rebuilds & we look forward to catching up with you all again on the track.

Written by Vanessa Armstrong

The build begins.

Well the rebuild of Annette's car has begun, for those that do not know the old car was junked at Krikke Boys this year when Annette chose the wall over hitting Gavin's car, the chassis had about 20 bends in it and while like all things it could have been repaired, it was old and fatigued so to the scrap bin it went.

We picked up a good deal from Hainsy on one of his JJ special Maxims and GKR got it across to WA for us.
These cars are unique in that they have similar mods to a Kinser Maxim but some subtle differences as well, this has me inspired to get it together so I can have a run, because we all know Maxim's are the "Old Mans Car", a lounge chair on wheels they tell me, and my first car was like that, very easy to drive and not so critical on the set up, as opposed to my J & J which you have to be on all the time or it will dump you quick as.
So we have had a dummy set up to see the fit in the car, man JJ is a small dude, we fit but to make it comfy we will get Murph the magician to push the A frame back and lift the seat height by 30mm.
So I have spent about 6 hours since Friday removing the vinyl wrap frrom the panels, never never try removing wrap from aluminium panels, what a chore, but persist we did and now we are done.
The aluminium is off to get repaired and as the fibreglass is so thin we will get the fibreglass panels reinforced to withstand the abuse Annette seems to give her cars.
Once the chassis is modified the frame and panels will go to Transcoat who do a great job of powdercoating.
So for me, I guess I can get car 56 ready for the sponsors day, looking forward to seeing just how fast this beast is.
I will start posting photos of the mission and keep you all up to date with the happenings in the cave, need something to stop the off season boredom.

Crabby