A massive thank you to all WFMA Flaggies and all officials for your efforts during the Pirtek Perth Supernight. It was challenging, exciting and so much more all at the same time.
I was particularly impressed with our newest officials and with the YO program. Great job to all involved – Dani

What a weekend of motorsport at Barbagallo Raceway! Firstly, a huge congratulations to WA Sporting Car Club for an amazing event very worthy of the 50th anniversary of the track. The new surface sounds like it’s a winner for everyone, with lap records falling everywhere so it will be very interesting to see how far they fall in the coming months as the track starts gripping up more. The facilities, surrounds and track look absolutely amazing. There was a ton of work done over the off-season and it certainly paid off. Well done to the Committee and staff, it definitely didn’t go unnoticed.

Next to the drivers, many of you certainly kept the officials busy but well done on driving hard and providing fantastic entertainment for the crowd that came in over the two days. Thank you to everyone who competed over the two days across all the classes, HQ Racing WA, Saloon Car Racing WA, Formula Vee Western Australia, Formula Classic WA, WA Formula Ford, Aus F1000, WA Excel Cup, Improved Production Racing Association of WA, Street Car Racing Association of WA, Sports Cars, Sports Sedans, Historic Touring Cars and Time Challenge. Hopefully no one has been forgotten!

Last but definitely not least, the officials. You guys and gals, thank you!!!!!! 👍🏻👍🏻👍🏻👍🏻👍🏻 Holy smokes, weren’t you all tested over the two days and you all got the job done! There were a number of oil clean ups, cars going where they shouldn’t, Saturday’s very windy conditions being very testing, Sunday’s hot weather making life very trying for everyone, officials and drivers alike, but the amazing group of officials banded together and got on with getting every event run (and it was a hugely ambitious schedule for the two days!!!!). Congratulations to each and every official for their part in making this weekend the success it was.

So starts the 2019 race season and, if this weekend is just the start, it’s going to be a great year of circuit racing!

Hi everyone

That is now the Supercars weekend done for another year! I want to say a huge thank you to each and everyone of you for a fantastic job done over the weekend. Whether you did one day, two days, or all three, thank you from the bottom of my heart for giving up your time and putting in an amazing effort. Things got particularly tough for a couple of days with a few no-shows and a few people withdrawing every day, plus our ongoing support for the Young Officials program on Saturday. Thank you all for being flexible while I moved many people around to balance the flag points out.

Thank you to the flaggies from interstate for making the trip across the Nullarbor to join the team. Having made the trip in the opposite direction a few times, I know it’s not a cheap exercise, both financially and in time. You’re all welcome back at any time and hopefully I will see you at the Bathurst 6 Hour when a group of us make the trip over east next year.

Last, but certainly not least, I want to thank my Fox team. Your ongoing support is greatly appreciated and you all did a fantastic job in supporting the flag points in your sectors over the three days.

This year was the first time trialling a Fox team and trying to keep pairs of flag marshals together throughout the three days, with just a change of flag point to give a different view of the track. With such a high percentage of people not able to attend for various reasons throughout the weekend, it became a bit more difficult keeping people together. We welcome any feedback anyone may have regarding anything flaggy over the weekend. I can’t guarantee I can fix it but I would like to know what worked and what didn’t.

Further to Tracey’s speech last night, WASCC would also like constructive criticism sent through to me if there’s anything anyone would like passed on to WASCC.

From Colin’s speech, it’s all looking positive from the sounds of things to get a new contract signed with Supercars. For those not aware, this weekend’s event was the last event in the current contract, so negotiations have commenced for a new contract. With the calibre of event put on with the high level of professionalism of the whole group of officials, it does make life a bit easier to get a new contract signed, which is a credit to you all again.

Just to give everyone the heads up, I won’t be checking this email for the next couple of days. I’m taking a couple of days off from motorsport before moving into Clerk of Course role for the next two events on the state calendar. Hopefully this break will be far more successful at being ‘no motorsport’ than the scheduled weekend in Brisbane I took a couple of weeks ago where there was meant to be no motorsport and I spent four days on it. Hahahahaha! Please send through your feedback and I will respond once I’m back on air.

Once again, well done and to the WA flaggies, I will hopefully catch you in Collie in a couple of weeks or Albany/Barbs next month!

Dani

Another Vintage Sports Car Club of WA Coalfields 500 event is done and dusted and what a weekend of Motorsport. Competitors certainly kept the Officials on their toes, from track clean ups to a high number of cars that had no go-go left in them.

Huge thank you to Saloon Car Racing WA, Formula Classic WA, Formula Vee Western Australia and HTCC for their ongoing support of VSCC events. I hope you all had a great event.

Officials, another great job with a ton of clean ups, a couple of bonus oil spills, and a load of recoveries. It certainly kept us all busy for two days. Thank you for another awesome weekend.

So another Supercars weekend is over in Perth and what a massive weekend of motor sport in WA. I think the dust has settled and hopefully everyone is heading into their second night of rest and recovery.

I will dedicate this entire post to the officials and volunteers who work tirelessly in their chosen roles and, at times, they can feel like thankless jobs. However, without the dedication of many nameless officials and volunteers, no motor sport event will happen. Through rain, hail, shine, wind, cold, heat, whatever the elements want to throw at them, the volunteers and the officials show up event after event after event.

If you didn’t get to the Nightmasters event last night at Barbagallo Raceway, you seriously missed out on a fantastic day/night of racing! Massive thank you to HQ Racing WA, WA Excel Cup, Street Car Racing Association of WA, WA Sports Sedan & Sports Car Association Inc, Saloon Car Racing WA, Improved Production Racing Association of WA, Aus F1000, WA Historic Touring Car Club and Formula Vee Western Australia for an awesome turnout in all classes and very entertaining races last night.

Hi everyone, please see your emails for details on our AGM, to be held at 11am Sunday the 15th of January at McCracken House, Barbagallo Raceway. This will be followed by a BBQ and drinks, please let us know ASAP if you will be attending. If you wish to nominate committee positions or proxies and didn’t receive our email please contact us (nomination form must be returned to us by 8th January in line with the Constitution). Of course only financial members/Young Officials may vote. Also see the downloads page for the 2017 membership forms.

Please see on the website calendar to the right, the dates for 2017 events that we have received so far.

I must congratulate each and every flag marshal for a fantastic Saturday of flagging.  There was a lot thrown at us on the day, between cars trying to drive each other off the track, some cars successfully driving themselves off the track, Tracksa system failing, CCTV being semi-manned to unmanned for a good portion of the day, track clearances thrown in for good measure, incident reports coming out of our ears… It was all so much fun! And you all did yourselves proud. A pat on the back for all of you. We were very short on numbers but everyone on the day worked as a great team. Well done!

Dani