Coalville Car Club
Weekly Bulletin No: 109 - 20th
May 2008
New Members
Welcome
to new member Clark Robinson.
Competitors
Congratulations
to Ashley Woodward who won his class on a Hillclimb on 18th May, in
his MG.
Dave
Walker finished 7th in class on a car trial at Burton Dassett on 18th
May in his Proton.
Club
members Chris Faulkner, Nick Faulkner, Dave walker, Chris Thorley, Ben Heggs
and Stuart Alexander took place on the recent Loughborough Car Club evening
AutoSolo at Bramcote. Finishing as follows:- Stuart Alexander (205) 6th
O/A 2nd I/C; Dave Walker (Proton) 9th O/A 3rd
I/C; Ben Heggs (Escort) 15th O/A 6th I/C Class; Chris Thorley (Proton) 17th O/A 6
I/C; Chris Faulkner (Sierra) 20th O/A 7th I/C; Nick
Falkner (Sierra) 26th O/A 11th I/C.
Giles
Smith will be competing on his first ever event, the Huntsman Endurance Rally
31 May/1 June, in his Peugeot 106, navigated by Jamie Cooper. Dave Walker/Chris
Thorley (Mini) and Rob Stubberfield/Chris Faulkner (Punto) will also be out on
the event.
James
Worth/Colin Stephens will be taking part on the Rally of the
Ashley
Woodward and Adrian Hodgkinson’s intended programme of sprints for 2008
are as follows:- 15 June - Silverstone;
3 August - Curborough; 30& 31 August -
Steve &
Tony Graham's programme of events for 2008 is as follows:- 24 May - Jim
Diary
Dates/Events & Regulations
Loughborough Car Club will be running a
series of Grass Autotests and AutoSolos; the dates and locations of which are
as follows:- 20th May Grass Autotest. 3rd June AutoSolo.
17th June Grass Autotest. 1st July AutoSolo. 15th
July Grass Autotest. Contact Richard
Egger rpegger@dsl.pipex.com for more
information.
Rugby
Motor Club are running their usual series of Grass Autotests, dates are 28th
May, 11th & 25th
June, 9th and 30th July and 13th August.
Buckwell lodge, Walcote. 140/585838 Start 7pm prompt – take your
clubcard.
The
Huntsman Endurance Rally will take place 31st May and 1st
June. www.huntsmanrally.co.uk
or contact Vince Orme 0115 972 0333 vince-o.cdmc@virgin.net
The Welsh Endurance Road Rally will take part on 9th
& 10th August. http://www.ammandmc.co.uk/
or contact Entries Secretary hywel.thomas@tiscali.co.uk
Entries
are now available on the Cloverleaf Historic and Clubmans Road Rallies, which
will run on Saturday 6th September. http://cloverleaf.wecc.co.uk
Marshals
The
Huntsman Endurance Rally will take place 31st May and 1st
June. Coalville are running the “Rising Wood” tests on the
afternoon of Saturday 31st May. www.huntsmanrally.co.uk Test
Commander is Ashley Woodward ashley.w@auto3p.co.uk
Coalville Chief Marshal John Brindley aj-brindley@hotmail.co.uk
Lindholme MSC have asked for help in running a Clipstone Stage of the Dukeries Rally on Saturday 14th June. Contact Len Fowkes 01909 565458 or email len@fowkes42.plus.com
This
year the Rally of The Midlands will take place Friday 20th & Saturday 21st
June. Coalville have been asked to assist Rugby Motor Club with the running of
the Mallory Park Stages on both the Friday and Saturday, names of interested
persons to Chris Thorley Further requests for assistance elsewhere
have also been received from the Chief Marshal Marcos James, mac_jam2002@btopenworld.com
or 07985 420483.
This year’s Roger Albert Clark Rally
will be running from Friday 14th to Monday 17th November.
Contact Steve Cowley steve@cowley96.freeserve.co.uk
Coalville
Car Club have now adopted a Child Protection Policy. A Permission Form to be
completed by parents or guardians of all persons under 18 attending any events
as part of Coalville Car Club is available from the Clubs’ Child
Protection Officer Chris
Faulkner.
Stuart
Alexander is looking for a contributing navigator for some tarmac/concrete single
venue events. Contact him at stuart165@btinternet.com
if you are interested.
Chris Faulkner is trying to track down some
Ford Alloys – 5x13’s for Nicks Fiesta. Chris Faulkner.
The
Club Championship in 2008 has a new category - the "Highway Lighting &
Signs Cup" will be awarded to the best "All-Rounder";
members will score points for each separate category they compete in; i.e.
Stage Driver, Road Rally Nav, 12 car Driver, Marshal etc. Best score form each
possible discipline to count. Minimum 3 categories one of which must be
Marshalling, required to register a score.
Chris
Thorley has a supply of 2008 Blue Books from the MSA & a copy of the spring
edition of "Motorsports Now".
Chris
Faulkner has A.N.E.M.M.C yearbooks if anyone needs one.
Chris
Thorley has the DVD from the Motorsport Safety Fund. Available to anyone
and everyone (but no-one has ever asked for it).
Club Members in
Action.
http://uk.youtube.com/watch?v=SXV9wXcj3wY
http://uk.youtube.com/watch?v=iA4vuvfnc_Y
http://www.youtube.com/results?search_query=bramcote+autosolo&search_type=
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=A4jeGtPRteM