Monthly Archives: May 2016

15/5/16 Ernie Hastie Memorial

What a fantastic weekend of racing at Collie Motorplex for the Ernie Hastie Memorial event. Firstly a massive thank you to every official who came out this weekend. After a big V8 weekend where most people were officiating for three days straight, to turn up for Collie was greatly appreciated by the promoter and organiser.

There was some awesome racing put on by all classes. HQ Racing WA, WA Excel Cup with a bonus Ryan Humfrey turned it up on Saturday, where they had fantastic weather, and the racing was really enjoyable as it always is.

Formula Ford had a couple of events with practice and qualifying yesterday then some very fast racing happening today. Watching the timing screen today saw Calan Williams lower the lap record by just under 1 second before the rain started playing havoc.

An absolutely amazing field for Formula Vees with over 20 cars on track and a great show put on by all.

Saloon Cars got to play during the rain logged day today and it was entertaining as always. Congratulations go to Grant Johnson taking out the Ernie Hastie trophy for the second year in a row.

Well done to the competitors of the regularity and super sprint events. Hopefully the rain stays away from whenever super sprints are next offered.

I think Anna did a fantastic job getting this event organised and I’m sure she was on a steep learning curve all weekend. Well done to her putting up with us in race control with our never ending requests for paperwork!

Last but not least, a massive thank you to every official and competitor who continues to make the trip to Collie and support the track. Without you all, these awesome events wouldn’t happen.

Until next time.

Dani Meyn

2016 V8 Supercars

Another V8 weekend done and dusted. A massive thank you to the whole flaggy team for their hard work and dedication for the whole weekend. The weather was extremely trying on Friday and Saturday (pretty sure our guest flag marshal from Victoria brought the wonderful Victorian weather with her) but today’s fine weather brought with it some trying incidents as well.

To those heading south next weekend with a state championship round in Collie, I will see you there.

To those heading to Albany or to the next state championship round at Barbagallo, have a wonderful break.

Dani