Race Meeting: 28/03/2009 + News

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Race Meeting: 28/03/2009
Opening Points Meeting For 2009.
Class: Rookies
Lachlan Cowling, Ryan Furler, Cameron Eldridge.


Class: Junior Lights

1st Aiden Hall
2nd Nathan Cowling
3rd Keaton Szach

Class: Junior Heavy

1st Jordan Barrow
2nd Chantel Hall
3rd Amy Alexander

Class: J Open

1st Joseph Caruso
2nd Jake Armstrong
3rd Greg Perry

Class: KT Light

1st Ben Brown
2nd Melissa Rowland
3rd Larry Furler

Class: KT Medium

1st Brad Connor
2nd Shane Hannagan
3rd Jason Minicozzi

Class: KT Heavy

1st Steff Wundenberg
2nd Hayden Van Den Ende
3rd Shannon Aplin

Class: Statesman

1st Paul Kloppers
2nd Adrian Schier
3rd Glen Campbell

Class: Mixed

1st Darren Woods
2nd Chris Reid
3rd Mark Mcarthy

Class: 125cc Light

1st Matthew Kennedy
2nd Ben Brown
3rd Shane Best

Class: 125cc Heavy

1st Jason Minicozzi
2nd Tom Bowden
3rd Shane Best

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The 115 entries made for some great racing all day long.
Thanks to all the volunteers [Girls & guys ] that helped out on the day.

With out trying to mention them all, 4 areas did stand out on the day.
Thanks to the guys that jumped in to assist with the Scrutineering.
Thanks to Kenny & assistant Bill whom managed the grid area.
Kenny doing a top job [taking a break from the flags ] & also new
member Bill [ From B-Select Adrenalin racing team ] assisting & he
seems keen to help the club long term.

Thanks to Nancy whom had the club running on the computerized Quick grid
system, while also managing the lap scoring & while data entering &
while printing off the results. What a massive task.

Thanks to William whom is the clubs Race Starter & already seems very
much at home with this task. Only quite young, but has seen much racing in his time.
Behind the scenes there are many working dam hard on the day to make it happen.

Track still needing some settling in following the additional dirt bought in off season, some rain & some time should see the improvements needed.

Clubrooms very popular at the end of the day, with many staying on to
enjoy a cold drink [From Wayne the Bar man ] & a chance to sit & relax.
Just in time to watch the final few laps of the Grand Prix on the TV provided.

Adrian Schier takes out the overall winner for the Statesman's class in 2008.

The amended presentation took place to correct the placings given by mistake last year.
Adrian taking 1st ,by a reasonable aprox 120 points [ total was 890
points] , then Andy Wundenberg 2nd, then Glen Campbell taking 3rd.


Raffle [ Managed by Wendy ] was sold out in a flash ,
With Ben Brown being the winner.
Some great prizes are installed for this year, with most times a
choice of 3 prizes will be offered so you get a great choice.
Prizes like a Car Trolley jack, a DVD player, a mens watch & gadget
accessories, a genuine FORD mens watch, a ladies watch, a signed Rick
& Tod Kelly plaque that contains a souvenir piece of race cars tyre,
Angle grinders & drills , & a Porsche remote electric car.
Just to name a few, so get in quick as it looks like tickets are selling fast in 2009.

Information sourced from: www.adelaidedirtkartclub.com.au/ with thanks. News by Stuart Cowling

[Karterdude!]

Here's a link to the JDM Photo galleries of the Adelaide Dirt Kart Club:

www.jdmphotos.net/adelaide.html

Photos thanks to ADKC official photographer Mike Gerlach

[tom]

Well done to Adelaide club, the first meeting was a good one.

I was still recovering from being sick, and with the heat of the day and the rough and tumble of racing with 18 other karts i was thankful of the grass in front of the new shed at the end of the day, a great place to lay back and relax.

Well done to Jason for winning the 125 heavies. I was a bit disappointed to start the final on pole and miss out on the win, i'll just have to try to find a bit more speed for next time! It was pretty hectic racing all day, hopefully we can continue to get the big fields, it will be good preparation for the titles later on in the year.

[Nice Day But]

Who is who at Adelaide?

Well done to everyone involved well done to Nancy on the Quick Grid and Well done the the new starter.

Just one thing I didn't like about the race day. If the person on the PA in the morning talks like he did again I won't come every again to adelaide. I think he was the same person who put everyone under pressure at the drivers breifing to get a grid marshall. If not i'm sorry for the confusion but he sure sounded the same.

Nice race day, bar the bad pa guy.

[Kart 79]

He did now you mention it get a little carried away.

[tom]

The guy on the PA is Stuart Cowling.. He does get pretty excited when he's behind the microphone, but i can understand his frustrations.

I don't think some people realise how much work goes into getting things done around the club. ADKC has around 130 members, yet like Stuart says, most of the work is done by about 10 of them. Have a look around out there, then imagine that the whole area was just a corner of the Speedway car park a few years ago!

If this is a continual problem, perhaps more drastic action will be needed by the club. One suggestion would be for a raffle where all ADKC senior drivers names that are present go in a hat, and 3 names get drawn out, between them they are responsible for the grid marshalling for the day.

Nice Day But, and Kart79: If you aren't members of Adelaide then i'm sure Stuarts message about getting a grid marshall wasn't directed at you, i hope you don't let that put you off attending further meetings. If you are members of Adelaide, then try to find some way to help out at the track.

[Kart 41]

A Grid Marshall was found on the day.
But he sure as well shouldn't speak to everyone the way he did who does he think he is. Saying "You lucky to be at Adelaide so you get this extra 5 minutes of scrutineering"

Come on Adelaide you where once know as the family club. Don't want to become a none family environment. Do you

[ADKC Member]

Apr 4, 2009 21:17:28 GMT 9.5 tom said:

The guy on the PA is Stuart Cowling.. He does get pretty excited when he's behind the microphone, but i can understand his frustrations.

I don't think some people realize how much work goes into getting things done around the club. ADKC has around 130 members, yet like Stuart says, most of the work is done by about 10 of them. Have a look around out there, then imagine that the whole area was just a corner of the Speedway car park a few years ago!

If this is a continual problem, perhaps more drastic action will be needed by the club. One suggestion would be for a raffle where all ADKC senior drivers names that are present go in a hat, and 3 names get drawn out, between them they are responsible for the grid marshalling for the day.

Nice Day But, and Kart79: If you aren't members of Adelaide then i'm sure Stuarts message about getting a grid marshall wasn't directed at you, i hope you don't let that put you off attending further meetings. If you are members of Adelaide, then try to find some way to help out at the track.

Bill [ From B-Select Adrenalin racing team ] is going to be the new Grid Marshall. I think

BTW. I am an Adelaide member but Stuart Cowling is nothing better than me all I want to say is if he has such dramatical opinions the WHOLE world doesn't need to know.

Don't get me wrong Staurt Cowling is one of the best guys in AIDKA supporting a club. He is the one guy at Adelaide who has made the club progress the way it has. He single handedly brought Adelaide from a car park into the greatest track in AUS.

WELL DONE MATE!

Just needs to cool down a bit before he throws his opinions out there. Think before you speak, Some people can get offended.

Meeting was well run. Nancy did a great job on the quick grid and the new starter William was excellent. Just now need the other Caruso on the grader to get the track good!
We are not racing motorcross

[Mr X]

Apr 4, 2009 16:10:54 GMT 9.5 @Nice Day But said:

Who is who at Adelaide?

Well done to everyone involved well done to Nancy on the Quick Grid and Well done the the new starter.

Just one thing I didn't like about the race day. If the person on the PA in the morning talks like he did again I won't come every again to adelaide. I think he was the same person who put everyone under pressure at the drivers breifing to get a grid marshall. If not i'm sorry for the confusion but he sure sounded the same.

Nice race day, bar the bad pa guy.

Have you been to Adelaide lately Stewie hasn't been on the PA and everything is running a lot later than before so I would shut my mouth unless I could do a better job. Hopefully Stewie is in the PA again soon so we can start racing again at a normal time.

Some people just make me so angry

Stewie is one of the hardest working people at Adelaide so let him talk all he wants on the mic he may be a little hard on people sometimes but we are their to race at a great facility made possible by Stewie and if you can take a little criticism I suggest you go and start racing something else.