| 7 March 2005 |
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| With just over 150 days to our event, the pace is really picking up. Christine Potts is still working 3 days a week at the Rally Office, and she now has an assistant. We welcome Harrie Phillips to our team. She will work as an administration assistant for us, and has already made her presence felt. Please feel free to drop in and say hello to Chris or Harrie at 272 Gilbert Street in the City. If you need any information you can ring them on 08 8212 2800. We have had lots of registrations, which are great - but, as you know, we need a lot of people, so keep those registrations coming. I know how busy people are, and how email can mount up, so I won't be bombarding you with emails or letters after this one. If you have not registered by the time the next newsletter comes around - at the end of March, this is the last communication you will receive. So, to stay in the loop, please signify your interest by registering NOW. Online registration is at www.rallyofsa.com.au, or via the registration form from Chris |
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| TRAINING This year we have reorganised training to make it way less time consuming for experienced officials. The main training session will be the 'Forest in the City ' day on Sunday July 24th. A number of mini stages will be laid out. Each stage team (all members) and Spectator Marshals, will set up, run and then dismantle a stage. The idea is that every official will practice the job that they will do during the event. The 'Forest in the City' day will also feature our 'thank you' barbecue for officials. If you are an experienced official, the 'Forest in the City' day is the only training you will need to attend. If you are an experienced official but you are taking on a new role then you will also need to come to the training session relevant to your new role. If you are a new to rallying and have no experience, you will need to come to a training session as well as the 'Forest in the City' day. There will be a few officials, particularly those from interstate or country SA who will not be able to attend any of the training sessions. As in previous years, a special training session will be held for these people immediately prior to the event at Rally Headquarters in the Barossa Valley. Please let Christine Potts at the Rally Office know of your intention to attend that session. THIS IS IMPORTANT. TRAINING IS A MUST DO. YOU WILL NOT RECEIVE YOUR FULL CREDENTIALS IF YOU HAVE NOT ATTENDED THE APPROPRIATE TRAINING OR BRIEFING SESSION, and so may not be able to be allocated. Training Dates |
Sunday March 13th |
Thursday April 14th Monday July 18th Thursday July 21st Sunday July 24th Tuesday July 26th Wednesday July 27th Thursday July 28th
10am to noon |
7 for 7.30pm to 9pm 6pm to 7.30 pm 7.30pm to 9pm 6pm to 7.30 pm 7.30pm to 9pm 9am to 5pm 6pm to 7.30pm 6pm to 7.30pm 6pm to 7.30pm 7.30pm to 9.30pm
Stage Commanders briefing/Brunch |
Held at the Rally Office, 272 Gilbert Street Senior Officials Briefing New Officials training Control Officials training New Officials training Control Officials training Forest in the City Day WICEN briefing Service Park / Regroup officials briefing Course Car briefing Emergency services briefing |
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| The 'Forest in the City' day will be held in the south parklands in the area bounded by Greenhill Road, Goodwood Road and Anzac Highway. All other training will be conducted at the Sporting Car Club at 51 King William Road, Unley. All sessions will be downstairs in the Reg Sparks Room. All officials who wish to work on the Rally of South Australia must hold a CAMS licence. If you do not have a licence or if your licence will be expired at the time of the rally, you need to act now. Application forms are available from the CAMS office or the Rally Office. This licence is free, and application forms will be available at the training sessions but it is a good idea to act as soon as possible and avoid the rush. Forms can be picked up at the CAMS office or the Rally office. They can also be downloaded from www.cams.com.au/go/officials BEANIE COMPETITION Remember last year, when we offered a prize of a very nice rally jacket for the winner of our beanie competition? It was won by Communications manager Terre Court, with a very clever entry. It will be on again this year, with a genuine Subaru Rally Team Jacket (as worn by Cody, Dean and Co, as sold for $350) to be won. All you need do is send in a photograph of a Rally cap or beanie from any of the years held so far, and 2005 of course, being worn in an unusual way or in an unusual place. This time around, it has to be a "real" photo, and it has to feature the actual official concerned - no computer generated shots or 'doctored' photos will be eligible. Entries will be accepted from now on, and the winner will be adjudged by our key organising group on the Monday before the event. Send entries via the website or to Chris at the office ALLOCATION OF OFFICIALS Allocations will be made by Chris as officials register, and will reflect your wishes where possible. Please note that it is my fervent wish that stage teams remain as close as practical to those of last year. This has all sorts of benefits, including building team spirit and pride in what you are doing. The various Stage Commanders will be calling registered officials in the May/June timeframe to confirm roles and training times but please remember that ALL of you are expected to attend the Forest in the City day to practice your roles hands on. We are also working on organising an opportunity to meet "on stage" to physically check out the situation. More of that later. BENEFITS PACKAGE This year officials will receive:-
WEBSITE: www.rallyofsa.com.au Last year, the website was an outstanding success - making it into the top 200 websites nationally for that period, which is just amazing. Some of the statistics were mind blowing - 20,000 downloads of the rally guide for example. Yes, 20,000 (!!) as audited via the ISP logs. Needless to say, I regard our website as a major asset of the event, and we will be doing all we can to improve it. Look out for the training notes, rally guide, organisation details etc etc over the coming weeks. There is a feedback area there too. Any and all suggestions are welcome, and I can promise that they will be considered NAMING RIGHTS SPONSOR Nothing to report just yet, but we are still confident that one of our proposals is still very much alive. Watch this space as they say………….. TRAINEES We are always mindful of trying to get new people involved in stage management roles. If you are interested in being a trainee stage commander, deputy stage commander, or stage safety officer, your first step is to talk to Chris and register that interest. We will then see how you can be accommodated, and take it from there SHELTERS Being in the middle of winter means we can probably expect rainy weather (though I reckon we are due for a dry one!!) So we all need to think about shelters. HomeArt currently has a pop-up gazebo (their code 9866) for just $79.99, which, when you see the product, is just unbelievable. We have purchased some 30 of them recently, and one is set up in my warehouse in Gilbert Street if anyone wants to have a look. Anyway, they are so cost effective that I encourage everyone to invest in a bit of comfort come rally time, as our 30 won't cover everybody COMPETITORS There has been some movement in the teams. It looks like Dean Herridge is teaming up with Bill Hayes in an all WA team, Dale Moscatt will be with Cody Crocker, Paul Humm has left Scott Pedder for Brad Goldsborough, Darryl Windus and Steve Glenney move to group N WRXs, and Jack Monkhouse into a group N Evo VII. Les Walkden is back with 2 new cars, and Mitsubishi are back in, maybe just one car though. Ford is still expected to join the fray with their new rear wheel drive Ford Focus, crewed by Michael Guest and Mark Stacey. Lots of other rumours as well! SENIOR OFFICIALS 2005 There is a detailed Sporting organisation, and Stage Management Team chart on the website. Thanks to all of you for your rapid responses, muchly appreciated. Again, if you are interested in any of these roles as a trainee, we would be delighted to try and accommodate you. TYRE CHECKING This year we will be involved in tyre marking and checking. If anyone has experience with doing this at rallies, I would love to hear from you. CERTIFICATES AND RALLY PATCHES 2004 Please note that I have heaps of Rally Patches left over from last year. If you would like some, just let Chris or Harrie know. Also, I have some certificates left. If you didn't get one, or if yours is damaged or whatever, I would be very happy to replace it. Again, just let Chris know IN CONCLUSION Just to stress that future communications will go only to registered officials, so please don't delay I look forward to catching up with you somewhere around ROSA, and thank you for getting on board with us once more to help us run another great round of the GlobalStar Australian Rally Championship Cheers Ivar Ivar Stanelis |
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