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The track rebuild is starting to take shape. Many thanks to all the members who have helped out so far. Special thanks to John Watkins, Leigh Cheeseman and Neil Chesterton for coordinating much of the works thus dar.

Below is a picture of the track taken on 9 January 2011.

Thanks to the incredible generosity of club members and the RC community, we have just taken delivery of a brand new decoder box to replace the one which has stolen. A computer has also been donated so that we can be back up and racing again at the start of the season (thanks in advance to John Caval for helping us set this up).

There are a number of people to thank including those that donated and purchased the auction items (most notably John Watkins, Neil Chesterton and Tekin), Ray Munday for running his car setup seminar, and those who donated funds directly to the clubs bank account. Special mention needs to go to the generous cash donations from Adam Box, Mildura RC Club, Castle Hill RC Club, Joe Machin, Mid Coast RC Club, Matthew Spencer, Andy Tonero, Piers Morton, and Anthony Salvatore.

Want to go faster without buying anything? Ray Munday will be running a seminar night in January to help share some of my knowledge and also raise some money to help pay for the new transponder system.

Details are still to be finalised, but currently:

• Date: Wednesday 18 January 2012
• Where: Cricket clubrooms next to track
• Time: 6:30 ~ 10:30
• Cost: $30/person (u16 free if accompanying adult) - includes pizza, all proceeds go to club
• Payment: Via club direct debit (put your name and 'seminar' on the payment details) or cash on the night
• Account Name: Keilor Electric Off-road Car Association Incorporated
• BSB: 083-346
• Account Number: 51-695-0779
• Numbers: Limit of ~30
• RSVP: ray@rccar.com.au

Ray’s seminar will cover the fundamentals of RC car dynamics (tyres, weight transfer, diffs, suspension, jumping, racing lines) as well as how to adjust your driving style to account for these and a section on mental prep. It will be aimed at all racers (i.e. no heavy maths or physics) and I hope will help you all improve your lap times through understanding of how the cars actually work. If anyone has any particular items they want to know about, let me know and I'll see if I can incorporate them.

Update:
There will be a bunch of giveaways on the night from my sponsors, stay tuned for details of actual items.

The 2012 Victorian racing calendar has just been released and includes a new Bendigo round for the drivers series.

The 2012 ORRCA Victoria Manual has also been released which includes several important changes:

• Coleman Cup to become a 2 day event.
• The Bendigo club will become the 5th ORRCA Victoria Club and will host a round of the drivers series.
• 4wd 540 will remain a class at the Vic's however will be removed from all drivers series rounds. 2wd 540 drivers will be allowed to enter 4wd stock.
• 2wd SCT will become an official class for the drivers series and Vic's.
• Seniors will be up to 10.5T brushless with zero timing ESC's. It will only be run at the Vic's.
• Any driver may enter modified truck however they must not also run stock truck.
• Brushed motors in stock are no longer allowed.
• Brushed motors will still be allowed in the modified classes.

2012 Calendar
2012 ORRCA Victoria Manual

The following update was received from AARCMCC on 7 December 2012.

The current rule set will be updated with the changes made with voting this year, as well as so items that were raised during the 2011 Nationals in Perth, and some minor fixes.

Some items to note:

• Definition of a wet track updated.
• The 6000Mah rule will be lifted.
• 30 day rule applied to the ESC list.
• AARCMCC approved motors added.
• Clarifying the finals definition of a tie break.
• Clarification of members at the members meeting.
• Clarification of members of a State / Club jury.
• Clarification to Rule Changes.

This will be sent out shortly for perusal, so that we can have them updated for the 2012 season.

Applications for the 2012 EP10 OFR Nationals were received from 2 NSW clubs last month, and after a vote by the remaining NSW clubs as to their preferences, Official notification was sent out yesterday.

The host club for 2012 will be St Ives Radio Control Car Club (SIRCCC) and it will be held at the St Ives Showgrounds, April 4th to 9th, 2012.

Details will be published next year, with announcements on Classes/Days, Demo Classes, Timetable & Control Tyres to be made early in the New Year.

With the growing demand for a more detailed SCT rule set, we will be commencing a draft for an AARCMCC set to be published soon.

If anyone has any input, please feel free to drop me a line.

At this stage, we will be basing the initial draft on the ROAR set, with some amendments to suit our own situation.

The 2 classes being considered are:

• 2WD - 10.5 BL and Approved ESC (blinky mode)
• 4WD – Pro Open Class

In the words of club president John Watkins, "Keilor dominates interclub shield".

We didn't just get over the line, but we won every class, some were very close, like stock truck,Mod 4wd and 2wd 540 which all went down to the last final.

Massive thanks to all that made the trip up. A couple of special mentions , Luke Chesterton, won 6 of 6 2wd 540, Mick the doctor for getting up in less than ideal conditions through poor traffic, John Caval , Simon Atkins for backing Mick to the end. Bendigo gang, you all know why, thanks.

4wd Mod guys, i don't know how you got over the line? but who cares, awesome job!

The drifter for somehow defying all odds and winning the majority of races, as Ash struggled with the Mother off all hangovers.

All SCT drivers, just for coming and giving us some great entertainment when we all needed it.