Club Notices

• Safety Seminar/Trainig Day (20-09-218)
  The Club is holding a Safety Seminar and Training Day on the morning of 29 September starting at 10.00am. The seminar and training will be held before green sheeting starts at 12.00pm.
  The seminar is being held by Laurie Calendar and will cover all safety equipment including the correct mounting of safety belts and correct angle of belts when seated in vehicle and what all the numbers on safety equipment mean.
  After the safety seminar the fire crew will... do some training including information on correct fire extinguishers for fuel that each driver uses and how to use them.
  At 12.00 Brendan McDowell from SNZ will cover the racing rules and what SNZ expects out of the Youth Ministock class.
  We encourage ALL competitors to attend the Safety Seminar and Fire Extinguisher Training. Youth Ministock competitors to stay on for Brendan at 12.00pm.

  YOUTH MINISTOCK COMPETITORS:
  All new ministock drivers are encouraged to bring along their cars even if not able to race yet. We will have people there to give advice and help in getting the driver set up correctly in their car, and also help with car set up along with any other help/advice that people new to the sport may require.

• 2018/19 Memberships (04-08-2018)
  The membership forms for the approaching 2018/2019 speedway season are now available.
  We are once again running a competition - All persons that have paid their memberships and sent in their form by the end of September will go in the draw to win one of two $100 fuel vouchers.
  There are two options to pay for your club membership, either via SNZ when you licence online or direct to the TSCC.
  These forms need be filled out and either posted to PO Box 397 Stratford or scanned and emailed to correspondence@stratford-speedway.co.nz regardless of your payment method.
  Note: We will be sending all correspondence via email this season so please clearly print your email address on the form.
   
• Green Sheeting on Race Nights (03-10-17)
  Competitors, please be advised that due to the amount of time that is required for green sheeting, green sheeting will only be done at the track on race nights under these conditions:
  -You must pre-book with your class scrutineer
  -Must be done before 3pm

• Using the Avgas facility at Stratford Aerodrome (8-11-16)

• There has been some bad behaviour concerning speedway competitors when collecting avgas from the Stratford Aerodrome.  Please remember to keep your speed down on the access road to the avgas facility.  The farm operates 24/7 and the herd is a chilled out bunch so please don't get aggressive towards them if they are crossing the road.  Please do not shoo them away aggressivley, just get out and quietly move them on if they stop to have a look at you.  The council owns the farm and we don't want to upset them.  Remember, the council owns the land and we don't want to lose access to this facility.

• Drivers Confirming They Are Racing
  Competitors (including visitors when at all possible), please note that we need you to confirm your attendance for racing by 7pm the Tuesday prior.  There are several reasons for this:
  - Tuesday is the night that the committee meet and the deadline for all our advetising is Wednesday morning.
  -  We need to know how many competitors there are in each class so that we know if your class meets the minimum number required to run.
  - We need to be able to advertise how many competitors there will be in each class to get spectators through the gate.
  - Our race format is put together on Tuesday night.  We format the race program to suit the number of competitors in each class.  Youth Ministocks especially, are likely to have more competitors than what is permitted on the track at one time (30).
  -  We will program the races to suit the confirmed number of competitors in each class.  For example, if thirty Youth Ministocks have confirmed, then we will program three races.  If more than thirty turn up to race, there will still only be space for thirty on the track.  Those that have not confrimed their attendance by Tuesday with the class rep will be the ones that miss out on racing. 
   
• Race Numbers
  There have been some changes to the proccess for how competitors apply for three digit numbers at Stratford Speedway.  In the past, you needed to apply to the TSCC and they applied to Speedway New Zealand on your behalf.  That process has now been changed and you now apply direct to Speedway New Zealand yourself.  Please read the information in this document so you can be clear on the number issuing process for single digit, double digit and triple digit numbers.