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Update on Open Sprint Rd 1 - 20 February 2022

To all our keen racers who have entered our Open Sprint Round 1 tomorrow. There has been some rain at the track with the 2 storms that have been across the area this afternoon. From my inspection at 5pm, an updated report from our wonderful friends at Ipswich Switches Junior Motorcycle Speedway Club, looking at the current radar and the updated forecast we believe that we will still be able to run our event tomorrow. There may be a delayed start but please be ready for a drivers briefing at 8:30pm. See you tomorrow. Regards Greg Woodbridge.  

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Welcome to 2022 and Callout for Help

The IWMAC wishes you a very Happy and Safe New Year for 2022

We need some extra assistants for Race Days.

Getting involved and helping out each other is as much a part of racing as driving is.

I know you’ll agree we enjoyed another successful season of racing in 2021 despite the challenges of the pandemic and weather. In case you didn’t know, it takes a team to prepare for and organise each event we have at the track. We arrive to a beautifully prepared track and see our faithful volunteers at the track on race days who enjoy seeing you having fun.

Prior to and on race days our Event Secretary Sam and regular assistant, Katie are responsible for the planning of the Event with duties which include coordinating all our paperwork including the Sup Regs and then ensuring its all completed and correct for all the Motorsport Australia requirements to enable the event to commence.

Don is our long serving Clerk of Course and would like to take a step back from the day to day running of the Clubs events. The Clerk of the Course’s job is to monitor and inspect the track to ensure it is safe and ready to race on throughout the day as well as being responsible for conducting the Event in accordance with the Supplementary Regulations.

We have the need/opportunity in 2022 to support the Club and our Event Secretary, Clerk of Course to ensure we can continue to run race days when they are on holidays or otherwise not available. These are Motorsport Australia trained roles which can take you to rewarding volunteering at Motorsport Australia run events across Australia. You can take on the training or just nominate yourself to help out on race day as an assistant. The training for either of these roles is an online course taking approx. 1 -1.5 hrs each and is accessible through your own Motorsport Aust profile under the Online training tab. Clerk of the Course training is the Bronze Event Command and the Event Secretary is the Bronze Event Administration.

If you’d like to offside for Sam or Don and help them on a race day, please email the committee at:  This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it.

Or, if you know someone who might like to help out in this kind of role (a partner, a mate, a parent) and get involved in your race day, more than a spectator, let us know.

Yours in Motorsport

Greg Woodbridge

President IWMAC

Ph 0437 301 429

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Novice Driver Training and Come and Try Day 23 January 2022

Happy New Year to all our keen racers . Our first event of this new year is a non competive event on Sunday 23 January 2022. It comprises of Novice Driver Training from 8am to 11 am and then a Come and Try from 11am to 4pm. This Come and Try is for people who have not attended IWMAC or Motorsport Australia Competition Events. So if you are new and interested in having a try, this is the event for you to get a taste of what our great Motorsport is all about. For any more information please contact Kevin Parkes Ph 0419 676 668 .

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4 December Day Night Autocross, AGM and Annual Awards and Trophy Presentation Update

To all our keen racers who have entered for our Day Night Autocross this Saturday 4 December 2021. Again the weather has not been on our side. With all the rain the track has received this week so far, and the prediction for the remainder of the week, the track will not be anywhere near dry enough to run our event this Saturday. And again, we have had to make the sad, hard decision to cancel this Saturday’s race meeting BUT we will still be holding some very important activities during the afternoon and evening.

The afternoon will commence from 3:30pm with a bit of a show and shine so please bring your pride and joy for all to see. Then our AGM will commence at 5pm. Dinner will follow at 6pm. And then, the all important annual awards and trophy presentation will commence at 6:30pm.

Everyone is welcome so please help support your Club in what has been another difficult year. If you could please RSVP to This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it. for catering purposes, if attending the now new afternoons event.

To everyone who has paid for this Saturday’s cancelled race meeting, you will be contacted in the near future regarding your payment options.

Looking forward to seeing you Saturday afternoon.

Regards Greg and the IWMAC Team.

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Update on Day/Night Autocross, AGM and Awards Presentation 4 December 2021.

To all our keen racers who have entered our final event of the year on Saturday 4 December 2021, our day nighter autocross. We are doing a track inspection on Tuesday morning and the organising committee have a meeting Tuesday night to consider all options particularly with the weather forecast of the week. We are keeping our fingers and everything else crossed that we can run this great fun event, including our AGM and awards presentation. We will keep you updated as the week progresses.

Regards Greg Woodbridge

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IWMAC 2021 AGM - 14 November 2021

To All IWMAC Members. 

               We are holding our 2021 AGM on Sunday 14 November 2021 at 12 pm at the Club Rooms,  Champions Way, Willowbank. This will be during the lunch break of our Autocross Rd 4 on the Sunday.

We will be complying with the Covid Rules at the time but it is anticipated the AGM will be held in the  Club Rooms where social distancing can be maintained and all voting will be by a show of hands only.

We have been short several committee positions over the last few years so the Club is looking for a full committee to be able to build on and continue the great work that has been achieved so far.

 IWMAC can not continue to run a successful Club with the current small band of dedicated volunteers. So please put your hand up to help fill all of the Committee positions. All positions become vacant as part of the AGM process. Please find attached a Committee Nomination form which must be completed and returned to the Club Email This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it. by Friday 12 November 2021. If you have any questions regarding any of the positions please contact me. Please also note that by our Club Constitution rules all members who nominate for any of the positions must be current financial members of IWMAC and the nominators must also be current financial members.

 An Agenda is also attached.

Looking forward to seeing you at the AGM

Kind Regards

Greg Woodbridge

Ph 0437 301429

President

IWMAC_2021_AGM_Nomination_Form.pdf

IWMAC_2021_AGM_Agenda_14-11-2021.pdf

 

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Postponement of Autocross Rd 4 Sunday 17 October 2021 Due to Wet Weather

To all our keen racers who have entered for our Autocross Rd 4 this Sunday 17 Oct 2021. With over 80mm of rain since Tuesday this week and our track inspection this morning, we have had to make the sad, hard decision to postpone this Sunday’s event. The track is very wet with several corners holding 75mm deep water puddles. The in and out fields are very wet and sitting with over 150mm deep puddles, which even the ducks are enjoying.  With the dry weather predicted, the track will not dry out enough by tomorrow to undertake track maintenance work in readiness for Sunday. Our next event is Autocross Rd 5 on 31 October 2021 and is already open for entries. If you have not already entered this event and wish to race in it, you will have to put in an entry on our system. To anyone who has paid for this Sunday’s postponed event, your payment can be used as a credit in the next event you enter. Cheers Greg Woodbridge

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October Race Meetings

Hi All Avid Racers,

                            We have re-scheduled the postponed Autocross Round 4  to the already existing race date of Sunday 17 October 2021 and we have been succesful in getting a new date of Sunday 31 October 2021 for the final Autocross Round 5 of the year. Once we get approved documentation form Motorsport Australia we will open these events up for entries.

We are hoping to be able to undertake a half day novice driver training day on the Saturday 30 October 2021. More on this in the coming weeks.

Regards Greg Woodbridge

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Working Bee Saturday 18 September 2021

Hi All,

           We are planning a working bee for next Saturday 9am to 3pm 18 September 2021 at the Club rooms. Our priority is to wash the ceilings and walls within the club rooms. Many years of dust and insects have been found on them. If we have enough people we will also clean the up and downstairs of the Control tower.  Please let us know if you are free to help even if only for a few hours. A sausage sizzle will be provided for lunch. Cheers Greg Woodbridge

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Update on Autocross Round 4 - 15 August 2021

To all our avid racers who have entered for our Autocross Round 4 on Sunday 15 August 2021. The health and safety of all our competitors, officials, volunteers and spectators is of the utmost importance to our Club. Even with the easing of restrictions as of 4pm this afternoon, the Qld Government has stated that Community Sport is not permitted until 4pm 22 August 2021. Also several of our competitors come from outside the 11 LGA’s affected by the restrictions and one of the new restrictions in place until 22 August is to avoid travelling to regional Queensland. Hence our organising committee has made the hard but correct decision to postpone the Autocross Round 4 to a date yet to be set. Looking forward to our next event on the 19 September 2021, Open Sprint Round 5. You will need to enter for this event when we get the Sup Regs approved and the event live hopefully by the end of this coming week.

Cheers Greg.

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Postponement of 18 July 2021 Events

To All Our Avid Participants of this Sunday’s 4 July 2021 event the Novice Driver Training and Come and Try Day.

The health and safety of all our participants, members and volunteers is of utmost importance to us. Hence with the unfolding Covid situation and lockdown currently in place in South East Qld, the IWMAC organising committee have made the hard decision to postpone this Sunday’s event to a future date yet to be advised. This has not been an easy decision to make but with a lot of other major events for this weekend having already been cancelled we thought that this is the correct decision to make.

All going well, our next event on 18 July 2021, Open Sprint Round 4 is still scheduled to go ahead.

Cheers Greg Woodbridge.

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Update on Open Sprint Round 2 on Sunday 16 May 2021

Hi All Racers who have entered our Open Sprint Round 2 on this Sunday 16 May 2021. Even after all the rain we have had over the last few days, we believe that the track will be dry enough and we will be able to get it ready for Sunday. We will make the final decision mid morning on Saturday.

Cheers Greg Woodbridge

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Autocross Round 2

After some overnight rain, that had a few of us hoping it was too little to impact, we had a good field of 45 runners for the second Autocross. The track proved to be pretty quick, and we tried to keep water up to it to ensure some fast times. There was an issue with our normal flaggies due to some comms, but a few drivers/crew stepped up to help out. You know who you are, so thanks.

Unfortunately we had an incident during the day with Cameron garth tipping his lovely LA Lancer on its roof, and back onto its wheels, with a slow roll after the esses.  He drove the car in, but it looked a little second hand, and after a visit from the medic, seemed to be fine, just a little bruised, maybe.  Flags were out quickly, and two other competitor’s came to a halt nearby, prior to CoC Don Power getting to the scene, but as above, Cameron drove it back.  A reminder that it is motorsport, it is dangerous, and although not common, we do have accidents on occasions. Thankfully no damage to Cameron.

On paper E class looked to be a cracker with 12 entries, the majority WRXs, with one brand new Yaris Gazzoo Racing, bought out by normal EVO9 runner, Ant Bonnici. Most were interested in how this performed, especially Ant. The first two runs were pretty slippery, but around run 3 it started to get better, grip wise. At the end of Run 3, there was a tight battle for Outright, with Alan Wienert about 2 seconds up on Wayne Poulier, with Ant a couple back and Colin O'Brien keeping him company. The Yaris was doing pretty well. Next in line (still E Class) was Tim Crase in the 2.5 RS (no turbo, so just an underpowered WRX really...). Fastest 2WDs were Bondy, Ric Ganderton, Mark Phillips (in the family Falcon), Parkesy and Barry Clark, who was down a bit due to a witches hat. There were not that many penalties over the whole day, so generally the driving was on the bit that is the fastest.

As the day quickened up, it was not unexpected to see the 4WDs blitz the field, with Poulier and Wienert battling it out, and Bonnici matching on some runs, but just off their quickest pace. Ultimately Wayne did a 1:30.4 last run to secure the win, with a valiant effort by Alan to secure a safe 2nd. There was only a couple of seconds over 6 timed runs, so very close. Ant was third in the Yaris, with Tim Crase next best E class car. Best 2WD was Bondy with 6 runs in the Pulsar for his time. A Class was a first time win for Leyton Bond, after a near flawless drive with no witches hats, and being faster on every run, with Patrick Millar in the Ignis and Brendon Williams rounding out the podium. B Class looked like Barry Clark would take it out, but a late penalty gave the win to a lucky Ric Ganderton, who has a rerun after an incident, on a run that he had already spun on, 2.7 seconds the margin – 5 secs for a hat ,eh Barry. Rounding out the top three was Steve Emson in the Mk2 Escort, who had a pretty flawless day and took out best presented. C Class saw Robert Clark in the Cossie MK1 Mexico take the win from Bruce Dan. With favoured runners, Bond and Parkes, out with a hole in the radiator of the 1600 SR20DET, D class was open and Mark Phillips took the win in the well thrashed EB? Falcon, over ever young Lloyd Robertson in his BMW, with el Presidente Greg Woodbridge third, after losing a dorian early (and so getting a couple of runs untimed, meaning slowest in class plus 5 secs). Ladies saw long time WRX runner, Steph Muston, mixing it with ex RS , now WRX runner Nikki Duclos, with Maddy Dyba, Joanne and Hayley Phillips and Marilyn O'Brien completing the field. Ultimately Steph drove a good clean day to secure the win, while Nikki was close, but had a spin and 2 penalties late in the day and was lucky to get second, with Hayley Phillips only 1 second behind in third.

Lastly, but by no means least, were the Juniors with Billly O'Neil taking the win from Alex Niven and first timer Ashley McKenzie. JA was won by the sole competitor, Emma Crase, who piloted the same RS Impreza as dad (Tim) to an impressive 14th OR, to be the best of the Juniors.

Many of the normal protagonists were fast on the day, but for a drive of the day I would point out that newcomer, Ashley McKenzie, started the day with a 3:07, but by the end had dropped a full minute (and a bit) to be a 1:59.8. She had some help with dad (I think), but did not put a foot wrong, and is obviously a quick learner. Well done.

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Postponement of Open Sprint Round 2 on Sunday 21 March 2021

Postponement of Open Sprint Round 2 on Sunday 21 March 2021

Hi Fellow Racers,

                                  After this mornings inspection of a still quite damp track, and a review of the proposed weather forecast for the next 3 days we have had to make the sad decision to postpone this Sundays Open Sprint Rd 2 event. For all of you who have prepaid you will receive an email regarding options for this. We will advise over the next few weeks when the rescheduled Open Sprint Round 2 will be.

Our next programmed event is Autocross Round 2 on Sunday 18 April 2021. Hope to see you all then.

Cheers Greg Woodbridge

 

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Ipswich West Moreton Auto Club

track largeThe Ipswich West Moreton Auto Club inc (IWMAC) caters for club-level motor sport including Autocross, Sprints, & Short Circuit Touring Car Racing, on a dirt track at Willowbank Park, Champions Way, Willowbank. We also cater for the Car Enthusiast with Car Club Runs, Cruises, Registration and Social and Community Events. The club is particularly dedicated to providing support to Junior competitors.

The track consists of two circuits : The Autocross track is 1km in length, 6m wide and has 8 corners of varying tightness. The Sprint track is 1.3km long, 8m wide and has 7 corners. The track surface is a decomposed granite construction, that gets grippier as they day runs. During the year, two championships are run, one for Autocross and one for Sprints, where drivers compete individually against the clock in a variety of classes.

For an aerial view, click this fb link, starts on the back straight and comes back around to the start finish, courtesy member Marc Wilson of the blue/white MkII Escort that adorns this site:)

 

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  • Update on Autocross Rd 4 - 14 November 2021

    To all our keen racers entered for our Autocross tomorrow. Sadly the weather has been against us again. With all the rain this week and this mornings track inspection, we have found the track still too wet to undertake any maintenance today. We have had to cancel our Autocross scheduled for tomorrow. Any prepaid entry fees will be able to be used as a credit for future events. Our AGM planned for tomorrow is postponed to our next event which is our Day Night Autocross on Saturday 4 December 2021. Get your entries in for this as it is our last event of the year including AGM, Annual Trophy Presentation and Dinner.

    Regards Greg Woodbridge

     

     

     

     

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  • Amendment to Junior A Rules of Competition.

    Dear Members,

    There has been some discussion around the vehicles that Juniors are allowed to drive during our Club's competition, re Auto Cross and Open Sprints etc. After much research and discussion within the Committee and with Motorsport Australia we the Committee have agreed to an amendment to the Current Junior A Class rules. Note!  There is no Changes to the Current Junior Class.

    • Junior (J) class is for up to 2 Litre cars (normally aspirated only, 2WD)

    No Changes to Current Junior Class:  This is the preferred option for Juniors.

    • Junior A (JA) class is for over 2 Litres.

    Note - as it is expected that Juniors are relatively inexperienced, our club’s preference for safety reasons is that Juniors are not to run 4WD/AWD, V8's or turbo/supercharged cars.  To make way for all Juniors to participate in our sport Juniors wishing to compete in a car that is outside the current Junior (J) Class may nominate their car of choice.

    1. Parent-Guardian will be responsible for the Junior Driver
    2. Each driver must demonstrate to the Club the maturity to drive the nominated vehicle
    3. The Club reserves the right to accept or decline all entries
    4. At any time during a meeting the officials of the meeting can exclude a driver who shows a lack of maturity and/or control of the vehicle.
    5. Junior A is not eligible for the Club Junior Championship

     

    If you have any concerns or wish to discuss these changes feel free to contact me any time.

    regards

    Kevin Parkes  VP

    0419 676 668

  • 16 May 2021 Open Sprint Round 2 - All Good to Go
    To all our keen racers who have entered our Open Sprint Rd 2 on tomorrow 16 May. After our track maintenance yesterday and this morning I am pleased to say we are good to go for tomorrow. Gates Open at 7am and drivers briefing at 8:15am. So please be there unloaded, paperwork completed and scrutineered ready for 8:15am. Looking forward to another great day of racing.

    Cheers Greg Woodbridge

  • Update on Open Sprint Round 2 on 21 March 2021

    Hi Avid Racers,

              The farmers will be happy with the rain we have had here in Ipswich this week but we are a bit concerned regarding our Open Sprint Round 2 event this Sunday 21 March 2021. The IWMAC organising committee will be doing a track inspection on Friday morning the 19 March and making a call then on whether or not our event will go ahead on Sunday. 

    This Event has Been Postponed due to Wet Weather

    Regards

    Greg Woodbridge 

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