Hi All

Sorry for the late distribution of this information, it was a slight oversight by the executive, however please find the approved Rules for 2012.

Firstly - A little background for those of you who are interested.

The Race committee discussed over the course of two meetings, a proposed set of rules to generate more club cohesion and participation.
It has been long felt that it's the same group of people who are relied on to run the club on race day.
All clubs around Australia are reporting similar issues and with these tight economic times, most clubs are well below ideal membership and participation numbers.

There were a number of suggestions regarding how we get other people involved including a financial incentive (or more correctly disincentive), a points allocation through to the solution that we are going to trial this year.
The basis of our proposal was that to be eligible for the club championship, each competitor (or nominee) must complete a race day duty at some stage through the year.

This meant that those people in the past that had complained that "they just wanted to race" could do so, BUT at the expense of THEIR championship aspirations.
This meant that there was no financial disadvantage to anyone.
This meant that people would be given an opportunity to pick a job, first in best dressed basis.
This meant that Cadet, Rookie and Midget Drivers would not be disadvantaged, as dad ( or mum) could nominate and the child could race.

So the next solution that we need to organise was HOW we would calculate the points such that NO person was disadvantaged.

The answer is as follows.
Remember - these rules have been approved by the General meeting and those people who voted at that meeting.
IF you have any questions, or criticisms, please feel free to contact me.
If you are not happy with the answer, I would ask that you send an e-mail to the club.
I would suggest that IF you have a criticism, please ensure that YOU have a better solution to the situation so that we can take it to the NEXT GM, and vote on it.

TKC 2012 Club Championship Rules
1. All TCK Race meetings (rounds) for 2012 are to be included in the club championship calculations with the exception of the TKC enduro (16th June 2012)

2. Finishing position Points
- Each round will consists of a number of races.
- The finishing position of the driver in each race, will equate to a number of points
- Points will be allocated for each heat, based on the finishing position of the driver (note point 3 below)
- First place – 25 points, second place - 23 points, third and subsequent places, 22,21,20,.….,3,2,1,0.
- If more than 25 people enter a race, 26th place onwards will score 0 points.
- 4 races = maximum of 100 points, 5 races = maximum of 125 points etc.

3. Finishing positions points are NOT amended based on Non TKC drivers or TKC drivers that do not qualify for the club championship.
- i.e. if the first TKC driver across the line, finishes in second place, their points will be 23 for that race and NOT amended to 25 post race.

4. Participation Points
- Additionally , all drivers who receive the race “START” signal shall be awarded 5 points
- This means a driver who is classified as a non finisher (DNF) receives a minimum of 5 points for the race.
- Any person who does not receive the race “START” signal (DNS) will be awarded 0 points for the race.

5. If a driver is Disqualified (DQ) from a race, he will receive NO points for that race.
- This means NO finishing position points and NO participation points.
- All other drivers will receive adjusted points. i.e. If first place is DQ, then second will be awarded first place points etc.
- Disqualification from a race will be at the discretion of the Race Officials only.

6. At the end of the year, each driver will drop their lowest points round from the championship total.
- The lowest points round can be one that the driver did not attend
- The lowest points round cannot be a round at which they were “excluded from the event”
- A Disqualification from a heat/s does not constitute “excluded from event” ie weight infringement etc

7. To be eligible for the club championship, each driver must complete a “race day duty” at round.
- A list of eligible duties is available to all drivers
- Drivers may nominate a person to perform that duty on their behalf and race
- Points accrued if a driver races, while their nominated person performs the duty, will not be included in the total , but deemed the round that is dropped.

8. All points will be made available on the TKC website as soon as possible after the race meeting.
- CMS data will be the primary source of reference, however drivers have the right to challenge any finishing order errors by contacting the Race committee via the TCK Secretary.
- All challenges shall be forwarded within 28 days of posting the results otherwise it will be considered true and correct.

9. The TKC Race committee will be the judge of any points dispute and their decision will be final.

Dave Price
VP
0410 179 037

Hi All,
Well the TKC was well represented last weekend at the Whitsunday Titles in Mackay.
The weather was hot through the day although cooled rapidly on dusk, and we even had a drop of rain during one or two of the heats Saturday Night.

TKC Results

Rookies 2nd - Nathan Granata, 4th - Luke Grasso, 5th - Maddison Raffe
Junior National Light 3rd - Jarva Sheerans, 5th - Madison Dunston
Junior National Heavy 3rd - Brendon Granata, 4th - Karl Raffe, 5th - Luke Hamilton
Senior National Light 4th - Matthew Taylor
TAG100 1st - John Still, 2nd - Dave Price, 3rd - Pat Driscoll, 6th - Tony Divertie, 7th - Wayne Hall, 8th - John Grasso
Clubman Light 1st - Matt Taylor, 5th - Luke Flynn, 8th - Tim Lavasi

There are 8 people on the website that have keys to the track. The caretaker is NOT responsible to let you into the track so you can practice. Please do not sit at the gate a beep your horn and yell out to him to let you in.

When you ring somebody and organise to pick the key up, you also purchase a practice ticket for each kart that will be on the track. It is not the responsibility of the caretaker to organise practice tickets. Someone is always available to supply keys for practice on one of the phone numbers on the website.
TKC executive will be watching this closely, the charges have not changed; $10 for members, $20 for non members.
Please remember you have to have your current AKA licence or pink slip with you at the track when practicing, as they have to be produced if asked for.