The classes will run with the same format, all points will count, and we will still have a feature class.

Our next race meeting is the class titles we will hopefully start a bit later this year to help those work on Saturday morn-ings.

About now you will be bored with my report so I will see you at the General meeting on Tuesday No-vember 11th.

Good luck in your racing. A d a m B o u r k e President of the OGKRC

From Le Prez- Dear Members,

Well it has been 1 month as President, and already 2 club days, a heap of prob-lems and some good times. I would like to thank all the Stewards, helpers & canteen staff who ran around with only 1 weekend break between race meetings. Everybody put in a fantastic effort.

We took a risk and gave all the classes more laps

and it worked a treat, still finishing at a good hour. I would like to do this at

every club day but we -

operation for flaggies and formation laps. On the Sunday I had a fantastic day and gave my daughter away. Yes, I have an older daughter and a grandson as well.

We had our first General Meeting on Tuesday the 12th and I do admit I ex-pected more interest from the members, but still it was a good turn out. We voted on classes for 2011 and decided that all classes will remain, except we will add Junior max to run with Junior perform-ance. We have also added TAG 125, but the weight for this class is yet to be decided.

Where a class does not have the numbers we will have it run with another class where possible, if we cannot do this then that class will not run.

Some rules for Newbies (And a reminder for the old)

Refueling is not to be done on any part of the track, including the in and out grid. The in grid and out grid are just that and should not be used the other way around.

To drive on the track you MUST be licensed, this is your insurance. You also should have all racewear on

- helmet, race suit, gloves and boots.

There is no excuse not to have any of this on. There are to be no parked cars in lower pit area on race day. Do not lend your kart to a mate to have a spin around

the track on practice days. This is highly dangerous as well as illegal and it will be YOU that suffers the conse-quences if caught. Use the bloody engine start up areas on race days!! For

hard!!!

the Adam Bourke?

- TUESDAY 09TH NO-VEMBER - GENERAL MEETING IN CLUB ROOMS

SATURDAY & SUN-DAY 27TH & 28TH NOVEMBER - CLASS TITLES

SUNDAY 12TH DE-CEMBER - PRESENTA-TION LUNCH AT DINGLEY INTERNA-TIONAL HOTEL. TICK-ETS NEED TO BE PUR CHASED AT C L A S S T I T L E S . ADULTS $40, KIDS $22, UNDER 13 $10.

DRIVER PROFILE - PHIL SMITH

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2010 CHAMPIONSHIP FINAL PLACINGS

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2010 CHAMPIONSHIP FINAL PACINGS CONT.

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HELPERS PROFILE 5

M GOING TO HEAVEN IN

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LEGENDS OF RACING 7

LEGENDS OF RACING 8

DRIVER PROFILE - MATT MCLEAN

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Inside this issue:

October/November 2010

O A K L E I G H G O K A R T R A C I N G C L U B

Track Chat

Kart Class & Number Clubman Heavy/Clubman Over 35s/Leopard Heavy #4 How long have you been karting? 6 years part of Karting? Win-ning!

Besides karting, what are your other hob-bies? Work, riding my CBR1000RR, following motor sport generally What would you never eat? Liver

live without? A morn-ing coffee

you do when you wake up? Open my eyes!

fear? Failure! What is your greatest karting achievement so far? 2nd Vic Open 2010 Who is your racing hero? Brabham, Brock & Skaife Have you had any em-barrassing moments in the sport? Celebrating a win 1 lap before the checkered flag was shown (wondering why I was being passed so aggressively on a cool down lap!) (That is

gold -Ed) What cheeses you off? Poor driving on the

Food - Thai Movie - Silence of the Lambs Colour - Black Drink - Beer

Ford or Holden? HSV Sponsors Westpac & my wife Deb!

WIN 1 LAP

BEFORE THE

C H E C K E R E D

F L A G W A S

2011 Committee Members

President - Adam Bourke Richard Camilleri

Vice Presidents - Jenny Hughes & Wayne Harper

Licence/Membership Secretary - Angela Russell

Secretary - Terry Steel Race Secretary - Michelle Carless

Treasurer - Malcolm McLellan Website Editor - David Strid

General Committee - VKA Delegates -

Steve Carless Adam Burke

Peter Gooch Craig Holowell

Steve Griffn Colin Edwards

David Bell To all these people - we salute you!!

John Chapman

Vern Krantz

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PRACTICE RUNNING ORDER

Remember you get 10 minutes from the time the first kart leaves the grid, NOT 10 minutes from the time YOU leave the grid. Please take note of the

ers.

Well the Championship has been run and won for another year. There was some great racing throughout the season with some champion-ships going down to the wire, while others were won by quite a consid-erable margin. Con-gratulations to all the

winners and place get-ters. But congrats also to everyone who com-peted at some stage. Always remember, hav-ing fun is the main prior-ity and if you happen to

Clubman Light Adam Hughes 8394 Tim Holowell 7006 Jayden Schmidt 6428 Trevor Allen 4945 Hayden Renshaw 4319 Jake Spencer 4099 Darren Anderson 3979 Mark Appleby 3883 Nicholas Bates 3423 Ben Capuano 2994 Luke Stewart 2938 Daniel Orr 2378 Marcel Ghoukassian 2150 Samantha Millar 2034 Timothy Edwards 2033 John Reynolds 1554 Dominic Lostitch 1132 Scott Rettino 1088 Daniel McLennan 781 Wayne Bourke 762 Russell Newnham 694 Jack Wynack 536 Bill West 439 Angelo D'Ettorre 430 Shane Price 430 Gerard Drew 352 Bradley Rodwell 235 David Frizziero 175 Stephen Jones 175

Clubman Heavy Chris Thomas 8426

Phillip Smith 4126 Chad Lidsey 4055 Timm Weitzel 3923 Alex Verdiants 3546 Travis Millar 3168 Chris Heraud 2559 Shane Renshaw 2543 Mark Poole 2264 Bruce De Carvalho 2018 Timothy Edwards 1865 Andrew Trathen 1803 Rhys Gooch 1770 Roger Polak 1203 Ian McPherson 1019 Jay Charlton 943 Matthew Adolph 911 Daniel Phivopoulos 856 Bill West 766 Adrian Mckenzie 409 George Geranis 293 Anthony Westaway 264 Geoffrey Sharp 238

Clubman Superheavy Mick Fisher 8729 Rhys Gooch 6216 Steve Polak 6097 Chris Heraud 5968 John Stanic 4348 Scott Irons 3626 Greg Corrie 2684 Robin McLennan 2143 Matthew Anderson 975 Brendon Anderson 746 Bou Spithoven 668 Tristan McKill 531

Ian Mcpherson 8556 David Dvorak 5682 Dean Groves 4611 Peter Gooch 3734 Adam Bourke 3277 Anthony Westaway 3200 Mark Poole 2854 Geoffrey Sharp 2588 Phillip Smith 2250 Rodney Capuano 950 Rod Capuano 943 Andrew Yuill 563

Junior Performance Michael Carless 9228 Thomas Randle 7970 Timothy Smythe 6097 Liam Bellamy 2933 Jennifer Shanahan 2098 Curt Sera 2057 Thomas Martin 1935 Bradley Carless 1915 Adrian Lazzaro 950

Leopard Heavy Hamish Leighton 7994 Luke Andaloro 7191 Andrew Yuill 7190 Shane Alabaster 6232 Richard Camilleri 5094 Greg Smart 4289 Graham Smith 3980 Daniel Phivopolous 2630 Bou Spithoven 2201 Wes Gainard 2111 Michael Griffiths 1929 Leigh Bowler 1361 Martin Ritchie 1230 Phil Smith 1116 Andrew Jackson 1100 Kyle Pettenhofer 1074 Chris Dudfield 1018 Nevil Thatcher 1018 Adrian Sarkadi 743 Leon Tarrant 637 Glenn Cornell 272 Trevor Garey 143

Leopard Light John Reynolds 5284 Michael Phillips 4924 Andrew Gilbee 2626 Peter Gilbee 2404 Sam Garey 2146 Adam Hughes 1203 Troy Tarrant 1047 Justin Phivopolous 850 James Sera 762 Jay Charlton 696 Todd Goldie 686 Dylan Jordan 576 Matthew Gilbee 487 Oto Sitnai 407 George Geranis 401 Jennifer Shanahan 293

Jnr National Heavy Michael Carless 9637 Dylan Slits 8143 James Mastorakos 7894 Bradley Carless 6101 Leighton Clague 5335 Jamie Macdonald 4888 Caleb Citrine 3110 Justin Carless 2838 Corey Paterson 2725 Lachlan Orr 2498 Clancy Smart-D'Ettorre 1892 Anthony Yannakakis 1695 Jake Paterson 1263 Michell Willmot 1203 Thomas Martin 882 Matthew Mclellan 802 Nickolas Reissis 599 Mathew McNeill 369 Brenton Cavallo 158

Jnr National Light Damon Strongman 7876 Timothy Smythe 7442 Dale Simpson 6971 Thomas Randle 6897 Matthew Lane 6020 Liam Bellamy 5415 Michael Nichols 4277 Nickolas Reissis 3757 Nicholas Steel 3139 Tom Mayer 2967 Matthew McLean 2879 Justin Carless 2413 Jordan Poxon 2385 Andrew Sotiropoulos 1995 Jesse Bishop 1933 James Barnes 1849 Ashton Andaloro 1833 Ben Creed 1553 Christian Morina 1280 Justin Francis 1127 Alex De Souza 759 Jake Dixon 751 Dylan Slits 502 Deanna Capitanio 272 Caleb Citrine 223

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Midgets Michael Smith 7882 Jai Sparey 7334 Matthew Iredale 4950 Jordan Dudfield 3956 James Stewart 3922

3201 Jordan Sinni 1962 Alexander Peroni 1127 Cooper Leamy 645

Restricted 125 Steve Jabke 7537 William Donnison 5934 Vern Kranz 5349 Robert Barnes 4475 Dean Sparey 4472 Aron Lawrence 4345 John Bentley 3586 Steve Griffin 3512 Rod Capuano 2829 Adrian Sarkadi 2764 Damien Gray 2719 Terry Steel 2041 Daniel Velloff 1732 Travis Gerbes 1701 Roy Mendelssohn 1598

Peter Bayfield 1566 Darren Thornton 1512 Imran Khan??? 1444 Paul Jabke 1360 Brendan Chamberlain 1350 Martin Ritchie 1327 Hayden Sinclair 1271 Glenn Chamberlain 1161 Richard Gardiner 1072 Alex Close 1056 Alex Limon 869 Michael Fermanian 828 Matthew Anderson 825 Christian Ventner 787 Nigel Oldham 654 Paul Beresford 654 Adam Barker 634 Paul Adams 628 Maree Yuill 405 Andrew Jackson 381 Brendan Hill 312 Justin Cross 297 Anthony Caiazzo 260 Ben Freeman 248 Henk Bakker 246 Pete Start 245 George Leamey 185 David Krsevan 143 John Cross 106

Rookies Jordon Hollowell 9381 Luke Guillou 8300 Todd Sparey 6637 Nicholas Sims 5855 Martin Bass 5090 Aaron Jackson 4404 Spencer Ackermann 4088 Lucas Filikotzias 3980 Jamie Westaway 3978 Rebecca Reissis 3487 Mathew Steel 3439 Daniel Griffin 3407 Christian Morina 2817 Lachlan Naismith 2256 Cooper Bass 1808 Ashton Andaloro 1611 James Barnes 1489 Tristan Mulcahy 1334 Jayden Adolph 1207 Jake Dixon 1163 James Chettle 743 Liam Mclellan 726 Tramayne Adams 202

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Rotax Pro Timothy Holowell 9396 Hamish Leighton 7975 Luke Dickson 4539 Andrew Jackson 4445 Matthew Graham 2954 Hayden Sinclair 2871 Timothy Edwards 2034 Luke Andoloro 1773 Liam Bellamy 1083 Adam Bourke 850 Brad Clarke 792 Stephen Jones 686 Edward Hamilton 557

Roger Polak made a rare appearance behind the wheel at the September Club Day and promptly blew away the cobwebs as

well as the field. Phil Smith put up a good fight but it was Roger

who prevailed, taking a clean sweep and winning the round.

Hmmm.......not

much talent her

e at all!!!

Josh Brooker, Ad

am Hughes, Mic

hael Griffiths

Mark Poole praying to the Karting God perhaps?

about being at the club? Eating the food off the barbie

about being at the club? Not racing

How many people help you? With what?

about karting? Spend-ing time with my son

What has been the scariest thing you have seen at a track? My son airborne in midg-ets

What role(s) do you play around the track? Cooking the barbie

How long have you been volunteering your time? Too long!!

Do you have a family member who races? My son Matt

you do when you wake up? Hit snooze

What time do you get up to attend a race meeting and what time do you get home? Get up at 6, get home whenever.

Food Steak

Movie Dances with wolves Colour Black Drink Bourbon, beer Singer or band Pink Floyd Ford or Holden? Hol-den (Ford sucks Mick)

OOaakklleeiigghh LLAAPP RReeccoorrddss

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Bruce seems happiest when wearing

please get this bloke a real apron???

TTIIMMEE

46.476 45.413 44.651 45.197 40.962 41.393 45.638 46.227 45.702 40.846 41.865 43.068 42.459 40.323 41.249 41.259 41.888 39.371 40.282 40.298 40.832 39.752

CCLLAASSSS

Midgets Rookies Jnr National Light Jnr National Heavy Junior Clubman Formula JMA Snr National Light Snr National Heavy Snr National Pro Clubman Light Clubman Heavy Clubman Superheavy

Rotax Light Rotax Heavy Rotax Pro

Leopard Light Leopard Heavy Leopard Pro Formula Aust. Light Formula 100

DDRRIIVVEERR

Mathew Hart Jackson Evans Lucas Boucher Garry Jacobson David Sera Luigi Cantanese Daniel Vosti Brett Arnett Franky Costanzo James Sera Franky Costanzo Anthony Lantouris Adam Bourke Ashley Arora Michael Pereira Luke Ellery Peter Klein Adam Hughes Michael Griffiths Daniel Singh BD Soutar-Dawson Trent James

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Vic Open, March 2004 Vic Open, March 2004 Vic Open, March 2004 Kingston Cup 2008 Vic Open, March 2004 Junior Top Guns, January 2007 Vic Open, March 2004 Vic Open, March 2004 Kingston Cup 2008 Oakleigh Class Titles, November 2006 Oakleigh Class Titles, November 2007 Vic Open, March 2004 Oakleigh Class Titles, October 2004 Vic Open, March 2004 Vic Open, March 2004 October Club Day 2006 Southern City Classic, October 2006 October Club Day 2006 October Club Day 2006 Oakleigh Class Titles, October 2004 Vic Open, March 2004 Kingston Cup March 2007

OG

KR

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Bruce manning the tongs with help from Mel, and Rod Capuano with a mouthful. (Nice apron mate!)

BEER????

The McLaren F1 is a sports car designed and manufactured by Gordon Murray and McLaren Automotive. On 31 March 1998, it set the record for the fastest production car in the world, 240 mph (391 km/h). Pro-duction began in 1992 and ended in 1998. In all, 106 cars were manu-factured, with some variations in the design. The F1 remains in 2010

one of the fastest production cars ever made; it is only succeeded by the Koenigsegg CCR, the Bugatti Veyron and the SSC Ultimate Aero TT. However, all of the superior top speed machines use forced induction to reach their respective top speeds making the McLaren F1 the fastest naturally aspirated production car in the world. Chief engineer Gordon Murray's design concept was a common one among designers of high-performance cars: low weight and high power. This was achieved through use of high-tech and expensive materials like carbon fibre, tita-nium, gold, magnesium and Kevlar. The F1 was the first production car to use a carbon-fibre monocoque chassis. The car features a central driving position the driver's seat is located in the middle, ahead of the fuel tank and ahead of the engine, with a passenger seat slightly behind and on either side. The doors on the vehicle move up and out when

BMW Motorsport division, headed by engine expert Paul Rosche designed and built Murray a 6.1 L (6064 cc) 60-degree V12 engine called the BMW S70/2. At 627 hp (468 kW; 636 PS) and 266 kg (586 lb) the BMW engine ended up 14% more powerful and 16 kg (35 lb) heavier than Gordon Murray's original specifications, with the same block length. It has an aluminium alloy block and head, with 86 mm x 87 mm bore/stroke, quad overhead camshafts for maximum flexibility of control over the four valves per cylinder, and a chain drive for the camshafts for maximum reliability. The engine is dry sump. The carbon fibre body panels and monocoque required significant heat insulation in the engine compartment, so Murray's solution was to line the engine bay with a highly efficient heat-reflector: gold foil. Approximately 25 g of gold was used in each car.

In contrast to raw engine power, a car's power-to-weight ratio is a better method of quanti-fying acceleration performance than the peak output of the vehicle's powerplant. The stan-dard F1 achieves 550 hp/ton (403 kW/tonne), or just 3.6 lb/hp. Compare with the Ferrari Enzo at 434 hp/ton (314 kW/tonne) (4.6 lb/hp), the Bugatti Veyron at 530.2 hp/ton (395 kW/tonne) (4.1 lb/hp), and the SSC Ultimate Aero TT with 1003 hp/ton (747.9 kW/tonne) (2 lb/hp). The normal McLaren F1 features no wings to produce downforce; however, the overall de-sign of the underbody of the McLaren F1 in addition to a rear diffuser exploits ground effect to improve downforce which is increased through the use of two electric fans to further de-

crease the pressure under the car. A "high downforce mode" can be turned on and off by the driver. At the top of the vehicle, there is an air intake to direct high pressure air to the engine with a low pressure exit point at the top of the very rear. Under each door is a small air intake to provide cooling for the oil tank and some of the electronics. The air-flow created by the electric fans not only increase downforce, but the airflow that is created is further exploited through design, by being directed through the engine bay to provide additional cooling for the engine and the ECU. At the front, there are ducts assisted by an electric suction fan for cooling of the front brakes. Only 106 cars were manufactured, 64 of which were the standard street version (F1), 5 were LMs (tuned versions), 3 were longtail roadcars (GT), 5 prototypes (XP), 28 racecars (GTR), and 1 LM prototype (XP LM). Up until 1998, when McLaren produced and sold the standard F1 models, they had a price tag of around 970,000 USD.

Today the cars can sell for up to nearly twice that of the original price, due to the perform-ance and exclusivity of the machine. On 29 October 2008, an F1 road car (chassis number 065) was sold at an RM Automobiles of London auction for £2,530,000 (~US$4,100,000). This was the car from the McLaren show-room on Park Lane, London. With only 484 kilometres on its odometer, this pristine exam-ple set a world record for the highest price ever paid for an F1 road car.

The F1 travels 0 400 m in a mind blowing 11.1 seconds at 138 mph (222 km/h). It also uses 235/45ZR17 front tyres and 315/45ZR17 rear tyres specially designed and developed solely for the McLaren F1 by Goodyear and Michelin. The tyres are mounted on 17-by-9-inch (43 × 23 cm) and 17-by-11.5-inch (430 × 290 mm) cast magnesium wheels. The F1 features unassisted, vented and crossdrilled brake discs made by Brembo. Front size is 332 mm (13.1 in) and at the rear 305 mm (12.0 in). The callipers are all four-pot, opposed piston types, and are made of aluminium. And for now, I will keep dreaming.....................

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Fangio was born on San Juan's day in 1911 in Bal-carce, to Italian immigrants. He began his racing career in Argentina in 1934, driv-ing a 1929 Ford Model A which he had rebuilt. During his time racing in Argentina, he drove Chevrolet cars and was Argentine National Champion in 1940 and 1941. He first came to Europe to race in 1948, funded by the Argentine Automobile Club and the Argentine government.

Fangio, unlike later Formula One drivers, started his rac-ing career at a mature age and was the oldest driver in many of his races. During his career, drivers raced almost with no protective equip-ment. Fangio had no com-punction about leaving a team, even after a successful year or even during a sea-son, if he thought he would have a better chance with a better car. As was then com-mon, several of his race re-sults were shared with team mates after he took over their car during races when his own had technical prob-lems. His rivals included Al-berto Ascari, Giuseppe Fa-rina and Stirling Moss.

Fangio's first entry into For-mula One came in the 1948 French Grand Prix at Reims, where he started his Simca Gordini from 11th on the grid but retired. He did not drive in F1 again until the following year at Sanremo, but having upgraded to a Maserati 4CLT/48 spon-sored by the Automobile Club of Argentina he domi-nated the event, winning both heats to take the ag-gregate win by almost a minute over Prince Bira. Fan-gio entered a further six F1

races in 1949, winning four of them against top-level opposition.

For the first Formula One World Drivers' Champion-ship in 1950 Fangio was taken on by the Alfa Romeo team alongside Farina and Luigi Fagioli. With competi-tive racing machinery fol-lowing the Second World War still in short supply, the pre-war Alfettas proved dominant. Fangio won each of the three races he fin-ished, but Farina's three wins and a fourth place allowed him to take the title. In 1950's non-championship races Fangio took a further four wins and two seconds from eight starts. Fangio won three more champion-ship races for Alfa in 1951 in the Swiss, French and Spanish Grands Prix, and with the improved Ferraris taking points off his team mates, Fangio took the title in the final race, six points ahead of Ascari.

With the 1952 World Championship being run to Formula Two specifications, Alfa Romeo were unable to use their supercharged Al-fettas and withdrew. As a result the defending cham-pion found himself without a car for the first race of the championship and remained absent from F1 until June, when he drove the British BRM V16 in non-championship F1 races at Albi and Dundrod. Fangio had agreed to drive for Maserati in a race at Monza the day after the Dundrod race, but having missed a connecting flight he decided to drive through the night from Paris, arriving half an hour before the start. Badly fatigued, Fangio started the

race from the back of the grid but lost control on the second lap, crashed into a grass bank, and was thrown out of the car as it flipped end over end. He was taken to hospital with multiple inju-ries, the most serious being a broken neck, and spent the rest of 1952 recovering in Argentina.

Back to full racing fitness, Fangio began 1953 by win-ning the Carrera Panameri-cana in a Lancia D24. Back in Europe he rejoined Ma-serati for the championship season, and against the dominant Ferraris led by Ascari he took a lucky win at Monza. Fangio qualified second with Bonetto seventh, and Fangio set fastest lap on his way to a 1.4-second victory over Nino Farina while Bonetto retired out of fuel. Along with that win, Fangio secured three second places to finish second in the Championship, and also came third first time out in the Targa Florio.

In 1954 Fangio raced for Maserati until Mercedes-Benz entered competition in mid-season. Winning eight out of twelve races (six out of eight in the championship) in that year, he continued to race with Mercedesdriving the W196 Mo-noposto in 1955 in a team that included Stirling Moss. At the end of the second successful season (which was overshadowed by the 1955 Le Mans disaster in which more than 80 spectators were killed) Mercedes with-drew from racing.

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Juan Manuel Fangio

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HE WAS TAKEN

TO HOSPITAL

WITH MULTIPLE

INJURIES, THE

MOST SERIOUS

BEING A

BROKEN NECK.

Legends of Racing

Juan Manuel Fangio driving a Mer-cedes-Benz W196 in the 1986 Old-timer Grand Prix at the Nürburgring

In 1956 Fangio moved to Ferrari, replacing Ascari, who had been killed in an accident, to win his fourth title. Enzo Ferrari and Fan-gio did not have a very warm relationship, despite their shared success. Fangio took over his team-mate's cars after his suffered me-chanical problems in three races, the Argentine, Monaco and Italian Grands Prix. In each case the points were shared between the two drivers. At the season-ending Italian Grand Prix, Fangio's Ferrari team mate Peter Collins, who was in a position to win the World Championship with just 15 laps to go, handed over his car to Fangio. They shared the six points won for second place, giving Fangio the World title.

In 1957 Fangio returned to Maserati, who were still using the same iconic 250F which Fangio had driven at the start of 1954. Fangio started the season with a hat

-trick of wins in Argentina, Monaco and France, before retiring with engine prob-lems in Britain. At the next race, the German Grand Prix at the Nürburgring cir-cuit, Fangio needed to ex-tend his lead by six points to claim the title with two races to spare. From pole position Fangio dropped to third behind the Ferraris of Haw-thorn and Collins but man-aged to get past both by the end of the third lap. Fangio had started with half-full tanks since he expected that he would need new tyres half-way through the race. In the event Fangio pitted on lap 13 with a 30-second lead, but a disas-trous stop left him back in third place and 50 seconds behind Collins and Haw-thorn. Fangio came into his own, setting one fastest lap after another, culminating in a record-breaking time on lap 20 a full eleven seconds faster than the best the Fer-raris could do. On the penul-timate lap Fangio got back

past both Collins and Haw-thorn, and held on to take the win by just over three seconds. With Musso finish-ing down in fourth place, Fangio claimed his fifth title. This performance is often regarded as the greatest drive in Formula One his-tory, but it was to be Fan-gio's last win.

After his series of consecu-tive championships he re-tired in 1958, following the French Grand Prix. Such was the respect for Fangio, that during that final race, race leader Hawthorn had lapped Fangio and as Haw-thorn was about to cross the line, he braked and allowed Fangio through so he could complete the 50-lap dis-tance in his final race. He would cross the line over two minutes down on Hawthorn. He won 24 World Champi-onship Grands Prix from 51 starts - a winning percent-age of 47.06%, the best winning percentage in the sport's history.

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HE WON 24

WORLD

CHAMPIONSHIP

GRANDS PRIX

FROM 51 STARTS -

A WINNING

PERCENTAGE OF

47.06%, THE BEST

WINNING

PERCENTAGE IN

THE SPORT'S

HISTORY.

Legends of Racing

Kart Class & Number Jun-ior National Light #2 How long have you been karting? 6 years favourite part of Karting? The stuff that goes on at the weekends away with Team Black Magic (Ed can vouch for that!) Besides karting, what are your other hobbies? Hanging out with my mates What would you never eat?

Eggs and to-mato What or who

without? My go kart

first thing you do when you wake up? Go back to sleep

greatest fear? Losing my go kart What is your greatest karting achievement so far? 2nd in

Championship 2006 Who is your racing hero? Lewis Hamil-ton

Have you had any embar-rassing mo-ments in the sport? Nothing yet.. What cheeses you off? Homework and to DNF a race.

favourite? Food - Sushi Movie Talla-dega nights Colour Any Drink Red bull Singer or Band - Eminem Ford or Holden

HOLDEN! Sponsors Dad

direction of the club 2011 Central City Series

All members are asked to please come along at 7.30pm on Tuesday 9/11/2010 to discuss these matters and many others.

The November gen-eral meeting agenda items up for discus-sion are:

Purchase of new club rooms and demolition of old Track extension Discuss future

The general meetings are open to all club members to voice any questions, ideas or concerns which they have. Tea and coffee will be served and drinks available for purchase

Agenda Items for November General Meeting

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The club has some 1200 litre water tanks for sale. All profits from sales go to the club. The tanks are priced at $150 ea. The product that was in tank is sili-cate based, which is virtually liquid sand. It has a VOC content of .002 mls/L. The company that used them has a portable water certificate which means that it can come into contact with water and still be fit for human consumption. Please contact John Chapman for fur-ther details on 0422 831 992 or email

jchapman7@optusnet.au

Okay now for the legalities - OGKRC has had no input into the publication of this magazine whatsoever. The Editor takes full responsibility for what has been included, whether that information is correct or not. It has taken me a long time and many drinks and ciggies to put this publication together and therefore I

Images and Wikipedia, without your help this publication would be........well......I will let you be the judge. If you feel the need to sue someone like me you obviously have absolutely nothing else to do in life.

And finally - THANK YOU PIES AND GO WEBBER!!!!