MONTH IN REVIEW 

Dear members

First and most importantly, Happy Bathurst Day!  

We're sorry for the delay in getting our newsletter out this month, part of our committee are at Bathurst volunteering and it's otherwise been a very busy time leading into Christmas.

Looking back on November, it was great to be out and about again catching up with members.

6 November was our first face to face meeting in quite a while, returning to the Naked Racer in Cheltenham. It was great to finally catch up with many of you and meet some new members.

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On 21 November we found ourselves with a double up of events with our drive to Stony Creek Go Karts event and our postponed final round of the Traction Tyres/Yokohama Drivers Championship.

Approximately 20 members took some fun winding roads to Stony Creek for an afternoon of go-karting fun, while another 20 members got some track time and some training from Graeme at Phillip Island.

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On 27 November we had our monthly Zoom with BCCM to hear about some exciting things coming in 2022.  It was another early start at 4am but the next one will be at a much easier 8pm - watch your emails for the event notice so you can login to say hello to our friends in Munich.

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On 28 November we held our Annual Christmas Show and Shine Picnic at Cruden Farm. The weather was perfect, there was a gentle breeze with beautiful blue skies. We estimate we had over 100 cars and over 180 attendees throughout the day with everything from BMW to Mercedes Benz, VW, Holden, Ford, Mazda, Austin Healey, Porsche, MINI and Datsun in attendance.The display looked fantastic.

We also raised $920 from our raffle which will go to The Smith Family and $203.50 in donations from our breakfast BBQ egg and bacon rolls which will go to the Royal Children’s Hospital Appeal. Thank you to Matt Kenny from All Commercial/All Residential Real Estate for bringing his BBQ trailer and his band of merry men and women to cook away all morning. Thanks also to Phil Kolar for donating the eggs and Bell Motorsport who donated the bacon and rolls.

Thanks to Santa for bringing all of the children (big and small) a lolly bag and hanging around for photos. And finally thanks to those who volunteered to judge our show and shine.  The winners were Paul Caruso for his E21 Alpina C1/2.3 (pre-2000 class), Chris Teazis for his M2 Competition (post-2000 class) and Jim Bradley for his AMG GTR Pro (other marques class).

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CHRISTMAS BREAK

Our very hard-working committee will be taking a short break over Christmas. If you have any club permit paperwork that needs to be signed or new cars to be added to our register, please don’t leave it  until the last minute as we won't be able to assist.  Please think ahead, plan ahead and get in early. We'll otherwise be back in January to help you with anything you need.

We wish you all a very Merry Christmas and a safe and Happy New Year.  It's been a trying year and we look forward to making the most of 2022.

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MEMBERSHIP UPDATE: 639 MEMBERS

Welcome to our new members Philip Bonvino, Simon Hernan, Gabriel Salib, Robert Leung, Glen Slater, Suraj Songh, Steve Thunder, Jamie Wise, James Potter, Tom Kehoe, Scott Gore and Duncan Ryan. We look forward to seeing you at an event soon!

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Don't forget to catch up with this month's update from our President, Graeme Bell here.

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