MUCC News

The fourth round of the EXEDY Victorian Rally Championship will be starting at 9:00 am in Perkins St. ALEXANDRA on OCTOBER 16th 2011 when the AKADEMOS rally comes to the area.

Organised by the Melbourne University Car Club Inc, the Akademos Rally first ran in 1960, and was a continuous fixture on the Victorian Rally Calendar until 1993. This year sees the tenth local appearance of this famous rally. The actual competition will take place in the Rubicon Forest area South of THORNTON, with forest roads in the area specially closed for the day. Cars will assemble in Perkins Street from 8:00 am prior to the start.

The cream of rally competitors from around Victoria will be taking part over about 140 km of forest stages, with several Australian Championship cars having a run as well. Warren Lee and Steve Kenway are engaged in a close battle for the title, with Steve having the slight upper hand at the moment, so both crews will be looking for a strong performance. Also returning will be local Ski Hire proprietor Derek Reynolds in his Mitsubishi Lancer, fresh from a Run in the Premier League section of the Australian Championship.

Competitors will begin to return to the Alexandra Racecourse from about 3:30 pm on the Sunday afternoon. Servicing of the vehicles will be held at the Thornton Sports oval on the Sunday about midday, and cars can also be seen in competition in the forest. On Sunday from 11:10 am, cars can on Blue Range Road, at the junction with Gravel Pit Road. In the afternoon, they will be back at 2:45 pm. Spectator guides will be available on the morning of Sunday October 16th, in Perkins St Alexandra, adjacent to the Shire Offices, and also from the Oval at Thornton.

During the day, a number of forest roads will be closed to traffic to allow the rally to take place. These include, Blue Range Road, Quartz Creek Road, Royston River Road –south from Rubicon Road, Snobs Creek Road, South of Snobs Creek Falls, Browns Road/No 5 Track, Snobs Link Road and the Eildon/Warburton Road North from Dudley Saddle, and Federation rd, East of Coy Road.

2011_AKADEMOS_Entry_Forms.pdf
2011_AKADEMOS_SUPPLEMENTARY_REGULATIONS.pdf

Peter Otzen
Melbourne University Car Club

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Round 1 of the 2011 Exedy Victorian Rally Championship is coming to the East Gippsland Region on 14th May 2011.

Exedy Victorian Rally Chamionship crews start in Bairnsdale with cars on display from mid-day, before heading a spectator special stage south east of Lindenow.
It's then off to the area North of Bairnsdale for an afternoon and evening of forest stages.

The VCRS clubman crews will start from Lindenow a little later in the day, and then follow the same course, with the exception of the last stage at night.

This year, the Victorian Rally Championship is very pleased to be supported by Exedy - Number 1 for clutch. Read more about the 2011 Exedy Victorian Rally Championship.

Competitors in the 2011 Exedy Victorian Rally Championship should familiarise themselves with the rule changes for 2011. Read the latest rule changes and more on the latest Exedy VRC Speed Read.

For this event, crews can choose to score points in the VRCS (subject to eligibility) whilst competing in the Exedy-VRC event, provided they complete the entire Exedy-VRC course. Details will be published in a bulletin prior to the event.

During the day of the event, spectators are well catered for, with multiple opportunities to see the cars in action. Guides will be published here and on vicrally.com closer to the event.

The service park and finish are both at the Lindenow Football Oval, with it's now famous evening meal catering.

If you would like a personal spectating point - better known as a road closure point - send an email to officials@mucc.net.au

For Exedy Victorian Rally Championship competitors:

• Exedy Victorian Rally Championship Supplementary Regulations
• Exedy Victorian Rally Championship Entry Form

For Victorian Club Rally Series Competitors:

• VCRS Bog-A-Duck Supplementary Regulations
• VRCS Bog-A-Duck Entry form

Just squeezing in to the very busy MUCC timing Calendar, we have booked DECA in Shepparton for Sunday July 17.

This is the day following the George Derrick Memorial Trial - but that is a VRC only this year, and the HRA brigade managed to come over after an HRA all nighter, so anyone doing the GDMT should be able to cope after a day-nighter.

This date is 3 weeks prior to the 6 hour Relay, offering team members a chance to check that they, and their machines, are working.

It even gives Michael Seidler to give our cars a proper going over prior to the cursory glance the Relay scrutineers seem to favour.

Peter

Here we go again!

The CAMS 2011 Victorian SuperSprint Championship!

Following the huge success of the event last year, we invite Entries for the 2011 Series.

Entries are open to all Club Level Track Cars, for example, cars that usually compete with AROCA, Ford 4,

MSCA, Maserati, HSV, Jaguar etc are all eligible - the classes are shown below.

Open to all CAMS Level 2S Licence Holders who are financial members of a CAMS Affiliated Club are eligible.

Round 1                Sandown                 Sunday April 24th

Round 2                Winton                   Sunday July 10th

Round 3                Phillip Island          Sunday August 21st

Round 1 Entries and Supplementary Regulations can be found here:

http://www.vssc.org.au/

or Email Enquiries to:

mailto:markrae@ezitag.com.au

Classes: (******* see note below)

- Standard Road Cars

- Modified Production Cars

- Unlimited Modified Production Cars

- Clubman Style Cars

- Kit Cars, Open Wheelers & Others

- (There's a class for every vehicle type)

(******* Note Due to a recent change in circumstances, Open Wheelers and Vehicles without guards will not be eligible to compete at Sandown.

Also, Slicks are not permitted on any vehicle at Sandown. These two items are part of our Minimum Circuit Hire Contractual Arrangements with Sandown and Further Supplementary Regulations will be issued on the day of the event.

We very much regret this change but it is totally beyond our control.

Round 2 and 3 Events are not affected by this change.

Regards

Mark Rae

Event Co-Ordinator

CAMS VSEAP

Yes, it's O-week at Melbourne University.
Hopefully you've had a chance to see the MUR Formula SAE team during O-week, and they might have even suggested you join a car club.
In case you didn't, here's the flyer for MUCC. Welcome aboard!