May 11th, 2009

Northern Rivers Radio Controlled Model Club
Proudly presents the
2009 Northern Rivers Titles

Venue: to be run at Gold Coast Raceway.
Gilston

Date: 28th, 29th and 30th of August 2009
Schedule:
Friday 28th
1 pm - 5.00pm Open Practice

Saturday Day 1: 29th
Practice 7.30 am 8.30 am,
Drivers' Briefing 8.35 am - 8.45 am
Racing Starts 9:00 am.
6 heats for all

Sunday Day 2: 30th
Practice 7.30 am 8.30 am
Drivers Briefing 8:35 - 8:45,
Racing 9:00am
All classes will run 3 Finals (A, B, C, D etc)
Finals will be 5 min

Entry Fee: $20 for the first nomination
Extra Class $10

Entries Close: Last mail, 14thAugust, 2009.
No Entries Accepted after Friday 14th August 2009
Cancellation Fee $15.00 if cancelled before 21st August 2009
If cancelled after 21st August 2009 - no refund will be given.

Scrutineering:
Will be done on Friday and on Saturday (morning 7.30/8.30)

Club Contact:

Steven Stubbin Home - 02 66623040 Mobile 0427771935
Email:Steven Stubbin

January 7th, 2009

Hi All,

Here is a copy of the race Calender for 2009

Month Date
February 1st Racing and AGM
February 15th

March 1st
March 15th
March 29th

April 12th No meeting Easter
April 26th

May 10th No meeting Mother's Day
May 24th

June 7th
June 21st

July 12th
July 26th

August 9th
August 23rd

September 6th
September 20th

October 4th
October 18th If Bathurst falls on either day No racing

November 1st
November 15th
November 29th

December 13th Last meeting for year Racing and Presentation Day

Thanks
Chris Howarth
GCMR Race Director
nitroburner@austarnet.com.au
http://www.gcmr.biz

November 23rd, 2008

Hi All,

Here is an update for the Gold Coast Challenge race day

Friday 28th, Open Practice from 12pm til 5pm

Saturday 29th, Last minute entries from 7am til 8am. Track open from 6am.

Concourse judging from 8:15 til 8:30am. Two class will be judge Best gas car and best Electric car. These bodies must be the body that run's on the car for the day.

All trophies will be presented on Sunday at the conclusion of the race meeting.

There will be a B-B-Que on both days, Running between 11am - 1pm

Prices

Steak sandwich and a drink $6
Sausage sandwich and a drink $4

Thanks
Chris Howarth
GCMR Race Director
nitroburner@austarnet.com.au
http://www.gcmr.biz

November 9th, 2008

Hi All,

This is very very late notice,

But today's race day has been CANCELLED due to rain.

Thanks
Chris Howarth
GCMR Race Director
nitroburner@austarnet.com.au
http://www.gcmr.biz

October 26th, 2008

Hi All,

Here is the race schedule for the Gold Coast Challenge in Novmber 08.

Entry fee will be $20 for one car and $10 for a second car.

Friday 28th Nov Practice from 12pm - 5pm

Saturday 29th Nov 9am till 5pm qualifying

Sunday 30th Nov 10am till 4pm Finals

Online entries will close on Friday 21st Nov at 12 Midnight.

On the day entries will be accepted for Saturday only and No entries on Sunday as you will need to qualify on Saturday.

Saturday's Heats will be,

4 heats on Saturday with the best 3 will count.

8.30am sharp Drivers meeting to start racing 9am

Sunday Finals,

Electric Finals will start as of 9am with the first two final rounds run first and the third final to run later in the day. Nitro Cars can not start before 10am on each day.

Finals will be,

Electric 3x5mins

Nitro side exhaunt 1x20mins

Pro Rear 1x30mins

1/8th 1x30mins

Online entries can be done via the below link, So please enter online

www.alycat.com/entries

Thanks
Chris Howarth
GCMR Race Director
nitroburner@austarnet.com.au
http://www.gcmr.biz

October 15th, 2008

Hi All,

Well finally after many long hours of figuring out the code to write the web page results.

They are finally up for all to see.

I do apologies that they have not gone up early, But as with so many people these's day's I have fulltime job and work long hours at that job'

I would like to thank you all for being patience's in waiting for the race day results to updated and load onto the web page.

Thanks
Chris Howarth
GCMR Race Director
nitroburner@austarnet.com.au
http://www.gcmr.biz

October 13th, 2008

Hi All,

Online entries are now up and running.

Please entry at :

www.alycat.com/entries

Classes are as follow's

RACE SCHEDULE
Friday 28/11/2008 12.00 to 5.00pm Practice
Saturday 29/11/2008 9.00am to 5.00pm Qualifing Heats
Sunday 30/11/2008 10.00am to 4.00pm Finals & Presentation

Thanks
Chris Howarth
GCMR Race Director

P.S.
This is a gas & electric event 1/8 Gas,1/10 gas & electric
online entry is recomended
nitroburner@austarnet.com.au
http://www.gcmr.biz

October 11th, 2008

RACE SCHEDULE
Friday 28/11/2008 12.00 to 5.00pm Practice
Saturday 29/11/2008 9.00am to 5.00pm Qualifing Heats
Sunday 30/11/2008 10.00am to 4.00pm Finals & Presentation

ps this gas & electric event 1/8 Gas,1/10 gas & electric
online entry is recomended
nitroburner@austarnet.com.au
http://www.gcmr.biz

October 10th, 2008

Hello,

There weekend is the Bathurst racing weekend
As a result there will be NO RACING this weekend.
We will back racing on 26th of October 2008.

Thank You
Chris Howarth
Race Director GCMR

May 31st, 2008

Hello,

Due to long range weather forcast,

Sundays race day has been cancelled.

The next race day wil be Sunday June 15th.

See You all next Race,

Chris Howarth Race

Director GCMR

May 17th, 2008

G.C.M.R.

Hello to all members of the club and fellow racers, well as promised your new committee meet last night and a working calendar was agreed upon, I know it will not please some people who race at other clubs as well but our first concern is to provide suitable race days for our club and members. As you will see from the calendar that we race ever 2 weeks and in November we have the "Inter Club", now that day is locked in but should the council reject our request for special dispensation to run nitro cars that week end we will have to look at another venue most probably "Brendale" but that is a little way down the track, so that month we are lucky to race 3 times.

Month Day Date

JUNE Sunday 1st
JUNE Sunday 15th
JUNE Sunday 29th

JULY Sunday 13th
JULY Sunday 27th

AUGUST Sunday 10th
AUGUST Sunday 24th

SEPTEMBER Sunday 14th
SEPTEMBER Sunday 28th

OCTOBER Sunday 12th
OCTOBER Sunday 26th

NOVEMBER Sunday 9th
NOVEMBER Sunday 23rd

NOVEMBER *Inter Club* Fri-Sat-Sun 28th-29th and 30th

DECEMBER Sunday 7th

Our next day of racing is on 1sr of June 2008 on our track at Gilston, All members are reminded that to race you must be financial and your fees are now due.
Over the next couple of weeks the "For Sale" section on the web page will be up and running so if you have any thing to go onto the web page please let the secretary know so it can be placed on the site.

Should any member have anything that they feel would be of interest to other members and would like to put on the web page submit it to me and I will look at it and make a decision. That's all for now

Race day as per calendar

Timings

Registration 8am to 8.30am

Drivers briefing 8.45am

Racing 9am sharp

Late registration will be taken from 8.30am till 8.45 and a $5.00 fee imposed

The way the race day will unfold is 3 qualifying heats of 5 mins and a final (length of final subject to change)

it is proposed that we will run 540, stock, and modified classes on the day but that is subject to numbers. A special will be run for juniors (under 15), once again numbers are the determining factor, juniors will only be allowed to run 540 class until such time as they can display they can race in stock class by qualifying number of laps completed, to be determined by race committee.

Regards

Dave Luff
Secretary

May 14th, 2008

G.C.M.R.

Following long and protracted negotiations with the Gold Coast City Council our track at Gilston has re-opened, but sadly only for the use of electric cars, due to the noise factor with gas cars. However Darren Densley and Dave Luff are still pursuing another venue for our club, with the approval of council and subject to certain requirements both of council (noise, etc.) and GCMR ( long lease), hopefully we will prevail in the very near future, the stumbling block is council, we are waiting for a map to show us available land.

A meeting was held at GCMR track at Gilston on Sunday 4th May 2008, prior to racing a Special General meeting was held and a vote of "No-Confidence" was submitted, voted and passed, so all positions were declared vacant, the following positions were filled by:-

President Darren Densley
Treasurer Chris Howarth
Secretary Dave Luff

At this point in time one might be wondering about the off road guys, the meeting then decided that the on-road and the off-road should be separate identities; the Secretary then agreed that he would meet with Simon from the off-road club to discuss arising issues and also the funds that are owed to the off-road club. The meeting was held on Fri 9th May 2008, I found Simon to be very approachable and he agreed that it would be better that the two factions separate, he also agreed that they would seek their own incorporation have their own name and also their own web site, the funds issue were sorted out, the amount and who to pay it to resolved.
I would like to thank all those off-road racers who helped out at our now defunked Gilston racing complex, and all those who held office and wish the off-road club all the best in the future.

The members who were at the meeting last Sunday the 4th, also set the fee's for the up coming year as $40.00 for Electric racers, and as there is no Gas track on the coast $20.00, the reason for the fee of $20.00 for gas is that they will remain members of the GCMR therefore they are entitled to go to other clubs and race, as visitors, or the alternative is join their club.

It is still hoped that later in the year we will be able to hold the "Inter Club", on a date to be advised, there is a bit of work to be done in that area yet and approvals from council, stay tuned.

There will be a new membership form on the web soon, and if you wish and you come racing you will be able to pick up a membership form at the track as well.

A new schedule for Electric car racing will be out very soon, once again stay tuned.

If there is any issue you want to discuss please do not hesitate to contact the Secretary, do not repeat not go on other avenues and bag one another or the committee, we are here to discuss all issues and I would hope we are all men enough to do it this way and not by a made up name on the internet where there is no redress.

On behalf of the President and the committee of the GCMR, we would like to thank all members of the GCMR for their understanding and patience during this difficult time and to the best of our ability we will Endeavour to provide a better year for racing in the coming year and beyond.

David Luff
Secretary GCMR