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