Wheelspin July 2012 - Sporting Car Club of SA

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TARGA NIGHT STAGE The Supaloc Targa Adelaide is an exciting and international event featuring the best touring and classic cars in the world. This year the event kicks off with Targa Night Stage at Wayville Showgrounds. With a two week TV Campaign Backing up promotion, Spectator numbers are expected to be between 2,000 to 10,000 on the night. Although Targa Rally has traditionally been difficult to spectate, due to the nature of its long stage (course design,) the Targa Night Stage provides a stadium type atmosphere, much the same as a traditional motorsport event, such as the Clipsal 500, but on a smaller scale. Targa Night Stage sees competition cars tackle 2 laps of a 1.5km bitumen track built within the Adelaide Showgrounds. Various elevated vantage points deliver flame throwing, tyre shredding action just metres from spectators. As vehicles complete the circuit, they re-enter Goyder Pavilion for an up close and personal Car show. Here Spectators get to speak to drivers while the cars are literally still cooling down. The Car Club has the opportunity to have 50 vehicles enter in the Targa Night Stage on Wednesday August 22nd. Entry fee is $90per entry and includes Driver and Navigator. Cars will run in packets of about 15 with a lead and follow car. Participants will require a CAMS Licence Level 2 Speed as a minimum and to be a member of the Sporting Car Club. If you would like to participate please contact Abbie on 8271 5689 for further details. 20
A small victory for rallying. BACK WORDS By Paul Murrell More than 25 competitive stages of the Supaloc Targa Adelaide have been approved by local councils for the August 2012 event. About 20 stages received road closure approval by the Adelaide Hills Council in front of a packed gallery of about 60 motor sport supporters. The previous requirement for 100 percent community agreement along the proposed route was not raised. Following consultation with local residents, event organiser Octagon announced it would not close Fox Creek Road near Lenswood and would alter the Scotts Bottom stage near the Scott Creek Conservation Park. The decision had also been made after consultation with business owners and advice from councillors to cancel the Hahndorf stage that would have closed Spoehr and Johnson Roads and parts of Onkaparinga Valley, Balhannah and Jones Roads, and resulted in access issues to The Lane, Shaw and Smith and Nepenthe wineries and a 6.5km detour between Balhannah and Verdun. The Gumeracha to Birdwood stage has also been shortened to avoid disrupting a local rural supplies business. These are positive signs that the organisers are working with local residents and councils to ensure minimal inconvenience and as always, communication is a vital part of mutual understanding. About 1600 replies have been received in a community survey on rallies, with 60 percent supporting rallies, 33 percent opposing them and 7 percent undecided. New policies for approving road rallies are expected to be ready for 2013 events. Have your say. As the largest, oldest and most influential car club in South Australia, the SCC has an obligation to speak up for our Members on any issue that affects them. Let’s face it, our interests and concerns are not often represented anywhere else (RAA, anybody?). As you are probably aware new speed cameras in South Australia will soon be catching motorists whose average speed exceeds the speed limit over a given distance, rather than at a single point. These point-to-point cameras measure the time taken to travel between two fixed cameras to determine average speed and will be used initially on Port Wakefield Road and the Dukes Highway, both notorious black spots (it was inevitable and only a matter of time until cameras installed to monitor truck travel were used to nab other road users). Plans are in place for similar cameras on Victor Harbor Road, the South Eastern Freeway, the Northern Expressway and the Sturt Highway. The upside is, as Police Minister Jennifer Rankine says, that the new system is a fairer way of measuring the speed of vehicles and targets people who speed and “keep on speeding, rather than those who go over the limit at one point and correct themselves”. We all know how frustrating it is to be pinged for a momentary lapse of attention to the speedo, or when trying to get out, past and back in at one of the rare places it is possible and before oncoming traffic or double lines intervene. However, you can be sure there will still be roaming speed cameras and roadside cameras to maintain the revenue flow... sorry, deter any breach of the speed limit; in other words, a double whammy. Point-to-point speed cameras are used in the UK, Netherlands, Italy (I always stop for a coffee break before reaching the next camera on the autostrada) and in Victoria on the Hume Highway. 21
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