VCS Round 2 Portland - THIS Weekend
VCS Round 2 is upon us this weekend and we are looking forward to seeing another huge squad represent our club in some big fields.
We count at least 14 Ballarat members racing so far; we hope you all go hard and have a blast.
If you haven't raced away from home before - we highly recommended having a spin in the VCS.
Its great fun, great value, and very important to our club.
February Club Day
Perfect weather kicked off the new year at Ballarat Kart Club, and it was great to see a mix of old and new faces.
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2019 VCS Round 1- Ballarat member results
Round 1 of 2019 was huge event with 241 entries, and it was great to see so many new and old faces having a red hot go; including some of our members at their first open meeting.
There were some A class fields, and a top 10 result is a pretty decent achievement.
2nd KA3 Medium: Taine Venables
4th KA3 Light: Jaxson Cox
6th TAG Light: Jordan Rae
6th VIC Masters: John Page
6th TAG Heavy: Paul Feely
7th VIC Comb Light: Brock Rae
8th TAG Heavy: Ray Dumesny
11th KA3 Light: Jordan Malcolm
12th VIC Comb Light: Bill West
14th VIC Comb Light: Shayne Penhall
14th KA4 Heavy: Ella Dunmore
15th KA4 Heavy: Lachlan Clark
16th KA3 Light: Jason Douglas
16th VIC Comb Light: Daniel Findlay
19th KA4 Heavy: Grace Dunmore
19th KA3 Light: Jack Micallef
20th VIC Masters: Greg Ord
25th Cadet 12: Domenic Kucina
November club day
We had a great day's racing on Sunday for our final event of the year.
There was some good reverse racing, 3 heats a final, and a nice BBQ to wrap things up.
We thank all of our volunteers and officials for a great day and year all-round.
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The following awards were presented for 2018:
We thanked our regular officials and volunteers, including Kev O'Donohue, Chris Dunnstone, Michelle Shields, Debbie and John Page, Mal Mason, Bob Shears, Justin Malcolm and Glenn White.
Harry's Junior Challenge
Junior representing the spirit of the club
Taj Vandenberg
Club Members of the Year
The Mason Family
We thank Mal, Lea, Kelsey and Taylor for all the hard work contributed to the club.
October club day wrap
October club day was a beautiful day with Taj working on some PB's in Cadet 12 and the Dunmore sisters Ella and Grace having a great battle with lots more pace in just 1 short month.
Restricted Light had some great racing at the front with Shayne, Bill and John nose to tail, and Daniel made inroads as well.
Greg and Andrew had fun in Restricted medium, although Greg did manage to find the tyres in a helmet fogging incident.
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2018 Victorian Country Series: Ballarat Member Series Results
The 2018 stand outs are Jordan Rae winning TAG Light, Brock Rae, Jaxson Cox and Zaiden Barry podiuming in their classes.
Congratulations to everyone who took part in such a big series
Jordan Rae 1st TAG 125 Light
Brock Rae 2nd TAG Restricted Light
Jaxson Cox 3rd KA3 Senior Light
Zaiden Barry 3rd KA4 Junior Heavy
Michael Angwin 5th TAG Restricted Medium
Paul Feely 5th TAG Heavy
Ray Dumesny 6th TAG Restricted Medium
John Page 7th Vic Combined Masters
Taine Venables 8th KA3 Senior Light
Mal Mason 9th Vic Combined Masters
Greg Ord 10th TAG Restricted Medium
Alexandar Barallon 10th TAG 125 Light
Jordan Malcolm 11th KA3 Senior Light
Anthony Taylor 12th Vic Combined Masters
James Head 15th TAG Restricted Medium
Jason Douglas 17th KA3 Senior Light
Alan Saint 17th TAG Heavy
John Owen 19th Vic Combined Masters
Justin Malcolm 20th Vic Combined Masters
Bill West 20th TAG Restricted Light
Luke Mason 23rd TAG Restricted Medium
Jack Micallef 23rd KA4 Junior Light
Zaiden Barry 25th KA4 Junior Light
Joe Fawcett 25th Cadet 12
Domenic Kucina 27th Cadet 12
River Murray 26th KA4 Junior Light
Jack Micallef 27th KA3 Senior Light
Jason Douglas 28th KA4 Junior Light
Shayne Penhall 32nd TAG Restricted Light
Taj Vandenberg 35th Cadet 12
Adam Neville 35th TAG Restricted Medium
Daniel Findlay 41st TAG Restricted Light
Guy McCutcheon 45th TAG Restricted Light
VCS Final Round Portland Results
Top marks for Jordan Rae with 1st in TAG Light
So close for Zaiden Barry after being there in all heats except the final few laps. (But a great result for the series)
Portland Ballarat Member Results
Jordan Rae 1st TAG Light
Brock Rae 4th TAG Restricted Light
Paul Feely 4th TAG Heavy
Michael Angwin 5th TAG Restricted Medium
Jaxson Cox 6th KA3 Senior Light
John Page 6th Vic Combined Masters
Zaiden Barry 7th KA4 Junior Heavy
Mal Mason 8th Vic Combined Masters
Taine Venables 8th KA3 Senior Light
Ray Dumesny 8th TAG Restricted Medium
John Owen 10th Vic Combined Masters
Greg Ord 10th TAG Restricted Medium
Jordan Malcolm 13th KA3 Senior Light
Bill West 13th TAG Restricted Light
Jack Micallef 16th KA3 Senior Light
Taj Vandenberg 17th Cadet 12
Daniel Findlay 18th TAG Restricted Light
Jason Douglas DNF KA3 Senior Light
September club day wrap up
Competitors were met with great conditions on Sunday for Ballarat kart club September club day.
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Bring a mate sessions were once again held with club members offering up a kart to a mate to have a go in a controlled environment. The idea is raising interest in karting with potential new Karter’s getting the racing bug.
Remember, we will run bring a mate at October club day, so get a mate involved.
New Karter’s included Sisters Grace Dunmore, Ella Dunmore and Daniel Findlay competing for the first time on P-Plates and doing a fine job completing all races and improving with the help from a few of the experienced club members.
Results:
Jett Rendell was the sole Cadet 12 entry but was certainly the most improved over the day showing consistency and improving his driving as the day went on.
KA3 Senior light and Medium was taken out by Jason Douglas putting in fast laps, looking forward to the arrival of his new kart in time for Portland Country Series. Luke Thurston was solid in 2nd place and Greg Ord was the sole medium driver who was kindly offered a drive by Mal Mason.
KA4 Junior class included sisters Grace Dunmore and Ella Dunmore with the ever fast Zaiden Barry taking out the races, while putting in some solid testing laps for up-coming country series.
Shayne Penhall was too good on the day, taking out Tag restricted light in all heats and the final. John Page dropped the lead-weight to run light class, putting up a good battle in the second heat putting the pressure on Shayne. Daniel Findlay progressed through the day, continually making set-up changes and learning his race craft. Overall placing was Daniel Findlay in 4th, John Page in 3rd, with Bill West 2nd and Shayne Penhall 1st.
Tag restricted medium welcomed Michael Beveridge from Swan Hill (thanks for making the effort) with Ray Dumesny taking out the final with solid laps, Andrew Calvert 3rd, and 4th was Ian Klauss making massive improvements in lap times over the day, while doing his time on his P-Plates.
Remember, 28th October is club day, bring a mate, get organised, get entered and let’s go racing!
August and September events
We've had a few people asking, and we may have accidentally caused some confusion, so to clarify:
Saturday 18 August
Track is closed for private vintage kart practice
Sunday 26 August will be another unofficial "test and tune/fun" day
This will only be for license holders/members - we have not organised a bring a mate permit this time
Kick off from 10ish
Sunday 30 September WILL go ahead as a club day - rain, hail or shine.
We will also organise a Bring a Mate permit if you have anyone interested.
The AGM will be held that morning.