NOTICE: With several people still considering whether to join the committee at last week’s AGM, the executive has extended the deadline for nominations.

If you would like to join, or continue on, the 2025/2026 committee, please notify the Club Secretary by 5:00 pm, Tuesday 7 October.

The next committee meeting will be held on Wednesday 8 October at 7:30 pm.

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Track closed For Come n Try Backlog backlog, it  should open back up early afternoon if we run on time.

Club members to help manage the come try karts and participants are welcome as volunteers.

Every month the committee gets heaps of queries from new and existing members.
Memberships, Licenses, KAC, Getting Started, Kart/Chassis questions, ODS sessions, track keys, car and trailer parking, baby change; you name it, we get asked it.

So behind the scenes we've put a fair bit of work into updating a comprehensive
"2025 Club Handbook and Getting Started Guide".

We encourage every member to have a read, as it also covers what it means to be part of our club.

Download the Ballarat Kart Club Club Handbook and Getting Started Guide

 



** Provisional calendar; dates may change for various reasons.

 

Here are two exciting opportunities to come and try Karting around the Ballarat Kart Club 801m bitumen track.

Sunday 15th June 2025
Come and Try day for Cadets / Juniors and Seniors in club owned karts.
Limited Availability
Wednesday 9th July 2025
Karting Australia Junior Sprockets Day, run by Karting Australia for drivers aged 6-12 years of age.
Bookings and information can be made at https://www.karting.net.au/junior-sprockets/

  • Saturday 17th Working Bee 9:00 to 1:00pm TRACK CLOSED
  • Sunday 25th Club Day 9:00am

Our next club day is coming up early in April.
Or is that late for March?
Whichever one it is, jump on https://portal.karting.net.au/ to enter and be part of the fun.

 
9:30am to 11:30 am. Girls/Females only #girlsracetoo
1:30pm to 3:30pm Open to all

Very limited spaces due to the availability of volunteers and club karts.
2 X Cadets (Under 12), 2 X Juniors (13-16 ) and 2 X Seniors for each session.
You will get a chance to drive 2 X 10 minute sessions in a club go kart on the Ballarat Kart Club 801m bitumen track located at Haddon.
 
Bookings can be made through https://www.trybooking.com/CZQAJ ($50 per booking.)


I would like to thank all the fabulous volunteers and officials that made this weekend a very successful Round 1 of the Victorian Country Series .

Big events like this require so much preparation and organisation to run, you might actually be surprised if you knew the amount of man hours involved.

I want to specifically thank a few people for the weekend
First thank you is to our club secretary Paul Feely, who on top of all the normal duties of secretary, "event coordinator" and also an official, took on the role of pit allocations and I think that turned out to be pretty successful exercise. Thank you all for your patience and Paul looked pretty happy with himself scooting around the pits on his golf cart.

A massive thanks to Grant Johnson and Tony Potter who have taken over the role of canteen co-ordinator's and all I can say is wow.
Wow, did we sell a lot of stuff through the canteen this weekend. It's not just these two but the wonderful volunteers from community organisations that hire our track who came to assist, the volunteers from other kart clubs who chipped in to assist and of course our club family volunteers.

Yes we had a few electrical loading issues associated with sheer volume of food being cooked, cooled and prepared, but we all chipped in to assist where we could and we got through the weekend.
Big thanks to our two can-do men Mitch Arrow and Daniel Findlay who on t
op of their racing, were relentless in sorting through these little issues of the weekend, arranging generators, just getting things done in including the cooking of the bacon and eggs at 6am.

The breakfast crew also included Ben Findlay, Bill West, Aaron Colignan and Tye Corbett.

I also want to thank Jason Douglas who unfortunately hasn't been able to race but was there all weekend running errands, delivering supplies to the officials and watering the pits to settle the dust throughout Friday and Saturday.

And finally thanks to all the members who assisted in the setup on Friday, marking up Racecourse Rd, the emptying of the bins, the cleaning and maintenance of the toilets etc. and then also the pack up tonight. It really is a team effort and I would like to thank you all.

Apologies in advance to the people I have missed, as my mind is still trying to unwind from the last two 15 hour days, but I did just want to highlight these.

A huge and successful weekend.
Thank you
Justin Malcolm
President

For those wanting to learn more about the club this morning's 3BA Ballarat interview:

Cadet 9 Club Member of the year: Charlie Hunger
Cadet 12 Club Member of the year: Archie Bristow
Junior Club Member of the Year: Troy Hollingworth
Senior Club Member of the Year: Ben Peverill

2024 Club Member of the Year: Archie Bristow!
The club's first national champion in over 60 years, and a great ambassador for the club with a positive attitude.
He join's his dad Matt on the honour board, who was club member of the year in 2021.
Unfortunately, Arch was not present, but we will catch up and present the plaque in person.

We also recognised the "Champions of the club".... our volunteers who keep the grounds maintained, the facilities clean, the canteen running and the race meetings officiated.
There is a lot more than these 10 who make all of this happen and we thank and acknowledge all of you.
We just wanted to specifically thank these 10 who have gone above and beyond this year.

Clive Howse
Grant Johnson
Tony Potter
Ray Douglas
Ray Dumesny
Kelsey Mason
Leeane Mason
Anthony Taylor
Michelle Shields
Bianca Kucina
 
As well as the very special life memberships:
Sandra Hocking
Noel Hocking
  1. Life memberships for Sandra and Noel Hocking
  2. End of Year Club Day - THS Sunday November 24
  3. New for 2025: Monthly New Member Nights
  4. Next club day SUNDAY September 15
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