AROCA Phillip Island Sprints SATURDAY 5 JULY 08

[Frank Musco]

Excellent job Aroca, Another well organised event. I had so many laps, by the end of the day I was dizzy, and used more than a tank of juice.

My condolences to Stewart and Brad. Stewart, its "Shake and Bake", not "shake and crash"!!
You need to go out with the cougar more often!. Although on a serious note I was very dissapointed to see the carnage, more so the poor sprint damaged. Hope to see it back next meeting. There arent many of us to fly the sprint flag.

Also, any photos taken of green alfa sprints are excellent photos, well done Mary.

Shake and Bake

[Neil Choi]

A quick note to all.

Fantastic day for all at PI, I think I have paid enough to the weather god this time around.  Unfortunate for those in red cars, but I am sure they will be back with shiny new paint.  I have just called my painter to paint my car white.

I have to point out and express thanks to the following people who made the day happen and ran it like clockwork.

Starting from the ground up:
Thanks to:
Bruno Colautti, his tow truck business is getting more and more successful, not that he wanted that way.  He also doubled as chief scrutineer.

Simon and Colin Ruck from MX5 club, Kathy Sinclair, all the rostered helpers from the drivers pool, all the Alfa members who helped (sorry, I can't recall all of them as I was still running around doing all sorts of jobs and helping recovery), for all their help to man Start/Finish and dummy grid to keep all those dummies under control.

I must stress to all drivers from all clubs that as a participant, it would be greatly appreciated if you could lend a hand at some stage during the day during the event or at an upcoming event as we are alway short of hands especially in the morning, Start/Finish and dummy grid.  Please come and ask on the day, your assistance will never be turn away, but if we do, you are lucky.

Big thanks to Kate Campbell-Gordon for doing most of the administration jobs (in fact all of them) in the office and check-in and PA and speaking with drivers and being the CoC's messenger of bad news and assistance to CoC and me and everything else and ..............I can keep going.

Brad Marshal for manning check-in, photocopying boy, helping Bruno to set up track.

All the scrutineers who worked out in the shed away from everything else.

Jenni Cross and Paul Cansdale in timing.

Erik Reuben for being the CAMS steward

Big thanks to Alister Grigg and Greg Savage for CoC and running the day so smoothly, calmly, decisively, efficiently and most of all in a fun and AROCA way.  There must be a way to get Alister to keep going after all the fun he has had and Greg to change teams and join AROCA, I am sure a GTV is more appealing than one of those MX5

There are whole heap of others who I have forgotten and I apologize, feel free to abuse but also to post if you know of anyone.

Last but not least the Geelong Flag Marshals without whom, we would not have gotten so many runs.

I will post results out as soon as I receive them from Ian and collate.

See you all at Winton on 10 Aug, supp regs and ef are available, see that thread or email me.

Best regards
Neil

[Victor Lee]

Also thanks to the the flaggie at Southern Loop!

The flaggie's prompt yellow flag when Allan, Marcus and I got there at speed very likely saved the lives of two geese/ducks/swans (whatever those long necked white things are!) when they decided to cross from the inner part of the track to the outer!   Not to mention potential messy damage to the cars!

I've never seen a yellow flag put out for wildlife before! 

Well done!

[Stuart Thomson]

For the vultures...

[Stuart Thomson]

And more...

[Brad M]

Regardless of the damage, it's a great day when we can all walk away (I know it's pretty easy for my to say ... I drove home with a PB)

I'm looking forward to seeing the all the sore cars better again.

[alfagtv58]

Oh dear 

Stuart, what happened

[Fast Eddie]

Regardless of the damage, it's a great day when we can all walk away (I know it's pretty easy for my to say ... I drove home with a PB)

I'm looking forward to seeing the all the sore cars better again.

So i hear Brad, Well done and some ice for the bruising

[NSharpley]

Hey Stuart ... not the 105!!!!

Were you able to drive that home or was it a trailer job?

[Scott Farquharson]

Hey Stuey, did you spill your machiato?

[Evan Bottcher]

Aaaaah, Ricky Bobby! Now we shall dance. And yes, it will be a slow jam.

[Stuart Thomson]

Oh dear 

Stuart, what happened

Ambition exceeded ability...

Put a wheel in the dirt coming onto the main straight.  Spun to the inside into the wall.

[Stuart Thomson]

Hey Stuart ... not the 105!!!!

Were you able to drive that home or was it a trailer job?

RACV total care comes to the rescue (again).

[Stuart Thomson]

Hey Stuey, did you spill your machiato?

There's a brown stain on the race suit now, must have been the Macchiato 

[Stuart Thomson]

Did anyone get a picture of me in the suit BTW?

It won't be out again for a while.