Motorcycling Australia Minimoto Titles 2011

Like the heading says, we finally got there.!! after 2 years of working with Motorcycle Australia, having to change the rules in The Manual Of Motorcycle Sport to suit minimoto in Australia and 6 month of not knowing if all our hard work was going to come together in time.!!
Southwest Minimoto after receiving a very inportant phone call yesterday afternoon are very proud to announce that the first Official Motorcycling Australia, Minimoto Australian Titles at "PHILLIP ISLAND" (what a mouthful.) To be held MARCH 4th & 5th 2011.
We have strategicly chosen this date as it is the weekend directly after the World Super Bikes at Phillip Island. With the media opportunity of having an international event for the biggest bikes one week, and a national event for the smallest bikes the next at the same venue,(their has to be a story in there somewhere?) and as part of our contract with Phillip Island we have incorporated a marque for a static display for the weekend of the superbikes so we have never had a better chance to showcase our great sport to such a broard range of motorcycling enthusiusts,media and general public as a whole.

Southwest Minimoto is hosting this event but this show is not about us its about all of us diehards that love our sport and can see the protential of our sport. So we would like all clubs Australia wide to get involved and help us put on a show worthy of the home of motorcycle racing in Australia and at the same time having a great platform to promote your club to people from all over the country. Our small group of dedicated people throughout Australia need to band together as a team after such a hard year to get our sport back on track.
As I mentioned earlier we have got a marque for the three days of the super bikes,and in saying that Southwest Minimoto are extending an open invitation to all clubs throughout Australia MA affiliated or not to get involved with our display FREE OF CHARGE (but we will make you sell raffle tickets to promote your club and more importantly our sport, and if no one from your club can make it get some flyers or cards to me and we will display them and pass them on to the appropriate people. We are also in the process of producing 2000 A3 posters that will be ready for distribution in the middle of December and if you email me with your club details we will be more than happy to get them on the posters. With the posters we have Victoria covered but we would love to have the support of every minimoto rider and club to do there best to get the word out so please email or call myself or Darren Schneider with your details and we will get them out to you whether it be 1 or 100 these posters will be our best form of advertisement we will have so I urge all club presidents to get these posters in every bike shop window that they possibly can in there state.(Its not very often you get free advertisement you should make the most of it.) As we have only sealed the deal "Yesterday now" our little behind the scenes crew have an absolute mountain of work to do and a very short time line to acheive this but Im sure Darren will be bombarding the forums with information very soon and i think registration opens late December. We would like people to hold off on booking accommodation if they can for a week or two the reason being is that this show is costing a fortune and rider entries are not going to come close to covering the cost so we need funding, we are approaching Phillip Island council and Tourisum Victoria for funding and if we can all book our accommodation though the same link the more hits we have the more cash we get.
"NOW FOR THE PART WHERE WE CAN ALL HELP" Over the next four days I will be franticly putting together a sponsorship proposal, our proposal is a four tear setup from $100.00 package ie. donation/small business gets VIP area access and thankyou for supporting us in the program, to $10,000.00 nameing right sponsor (Thats why the posters are going to be four weeks away). Our meeting will be named ie. "The Bollins Racing Australian Minimoto Title". ( Bet you liked that fancy pants)along with a full hostpitality package, 5 Star accommodation for the weekend, Driver service to and from the track at there leisure someone to feed them and wipe there bottom if they need it Blar,Blar,Blar with there company name or logo attached to every thing we do "I think you get the picture! We would appreciate it if as many people as possible could pass one or more on to someone of interest and if we got $100.00 sponsorship from it we would be wrapped and when you see there name in the program you can be proud that you have done your bit to keep the wheels turning.!!

"ATTENTION ALL MOTARD RIDERS" Come back you all disappeared we know your still out there "WE NEED YOU". I've heard that our current Australian Title holder Ryan Taylor who "when theres no minimoto on the weekend of course" can be seen having it out at the pointy end of the Australian Superbike Seires will be back to defend his title. I think had it a bit too easy this year so we need the boys from Gladstone to get down and put on a show! Im sure if they do make the trip down, Ryan wont have it all his own way this year.!!

Our club made the decision something had to be done to get our sport noticed by the mainstream media and motorsport alike.!! The Club has done the best it can to provide this,so now its upto all of us to put in and get the ball rolling. If we as a sporting group achieve only "HALF" of whats possible from an opportunity like this I see 2011 being a very good year, and 2012 being the best year we've ever had.!! "LETS PUT ON A SHOW"


Contact details: Brendan O'Donnell (Hippy...)
President Southwest Minimoto Club Inc.
Phone:0401 922 118
Email:tintahouse@hotmail.com

Update.
A meeting with the big boss of MA is scheduled for tomorrow to finalize all details.
This is what has been holding us up with further information to be put out to the public.
So enrty forms are not far away.

A very productive meeting today with the head of MA.
Final organisations should be finished by the end of next week, this is when the entry forms and some further information can be released.

The national MA Minimoto / Motard sub committee details should also be released by MA later this week, which will be passed on each clubs president to then be releases to it's repective members.
The debate on classes (A & B), bike classes, weight isuses, etc will be discussed off forum as soon the sub committee is formed when all members will have their say within there own club, to then submit to their clubs delegate, whom will take it to the Minimoto / Motard sub committee to then vote on.
These final agree rule changes to MA rules booklet will then take affect.

I am 5'8 , 65 kg 36 yo .Stock 49cc air cooled China PB .

Happy to come last so will race any class I can as mentioned above .

My race suit consists of a level 2 CiK Cordura karting suit with Fox MX elbow and knee guards cut out and sewn into place . Is that ok ?

How much to enter etc , is day licence /single event available .

The bike would need to be able to pass scrutineering, eg bar ends, removal of any fixed stand, in good overall condition, full details can be emailed to you.
The race suit, helmet, back protector, gloves etc, would need to pass scrutineering, again I can email you full details.
Costs of entry should be released by next weekend.

I will post up a link to further details next week.

Thankyou for your enquirey, hope you can make it.

Dazza,
cheers will be there .

Brake pins have to be drilled and lock wired ?

few other questions I would like to pose to you if possible about event but nothing that would stop me from attending ?

MA and Motard ? Is that part of the deal with coming under MA or is it something needed to make up numbers ?. I personally know few of the original crew that started up Motard in Vic down Broadford . They have all moved to thunder bike racing those bikes on larger tracks like the PI GP circuit, Broadford and Winton . The ones that haven't have gone back to MX or Road Racing or quite all together .

I can't see MA doing much for me and the region I am in . How much experience have you had to do with MA insuring us for an AKA track ? I can't take Motard to AKA tracks and I am not even going to bother to ask .

I do realise cost and dealing wise, MA is supreme to all that I have dealt with before ie : CAMS, AASA, AKA etc,but I repeat again, they do not have any circuits in this area and can't see them throwing funding for a complex my way for PB only in this region with or without the low numbers of Motard thrown in .
Is their a circuit that could be utilised closer to Melbourne ? what is happening with Sth Merang/F1 managment track these days ?

your comment :

" We have strategicly chosen this date as it is the weekend directly after the World Super Bikes at Phillip Island. "

Apart from the static display at WSB with event following the next weekend . I think your way off the mark .

If your relying on locals or people to hang around a week after a not that well supported event , general public wise .

With all due respect , I own a holiday house 7 km's from the front gate of the GP circuit and spend so much time there, I have absentee voted from there the last 10 state and fed elections . And I know how things work down there and experience has shown me that the go kart track next to the GP circuit is simply a dud .

Part of me is thinking , wouldn't it be better off being closer to a general PB occupied region or Melbourne or is this a MA influenced meet first what's good for the sport 2nd? As I can't see making everyone haul **** to PI as a bonus for the little return that may or may not transpire .

I can't see people from Melbourne coming back to PI the following weekend for PB's or Motard . Melbourne outer sububrs like Sth Merang, Dandy yes off that static display , but not PI .

Don't take this the wrong way as I am happy to attend and trying to get a grasp on things , I may even look to obtaining MA accred for the AKA tracks I would like to establish in this area , but if this includes motard, forget it.

My other suggestion is this : Prokart from NSW who also run PB'sand has obtained ELKC kart club ( puckapunyal) in Victoria for 3 days in 2011 . Has appearing on their program been considered as a better alternative to MA and PI ?

cheers .

These safety measures can be found on the MA website, in their GCR rules section, but yes I do think the brake pins require lock wire.

Motard is part of Minimoto and MA, so yes Motards will be racing at the Phillip Island event, under the capacities in the MA rules booklet.

MA will do as much for you as you would like to put back into the sport.
Form a club under MA.
Currently MA is in talks with the AKA to set out a basic set of track rules to allow all AKA tracks to be allowed to run Motard and Minimoto bikes under a club type senario.

A complex is never out of the question in the future, but takes time and heaps of money.
The track at South Morang is still allowing bikes for $35.00 a day from opening to closeing every day.

I don't expect people who go home after the WSB to come back to PI, but some who stay to make it a holiday, may visit the event.
PI is where we will hold the event in 2011, but other locations for club events may become viable that the SWMMCI may hold in 2011.
Currently Motards are running on AKA tracks, Warrnambool monthly, but we have also run at Port Melbourne and Ballarat.
So there is no reason why any AKA track can't run Motards and Minimoto bikes if the individual AKA club members allow.

I hope I have answered your questions to the best of my ability with the information I have, I hope to meet up with you at Phillip Island and possible other events in 2011.
Thankyou
Darren

I would have thought the weekend after the Moto Gp would have been strategically the best weekend..
Should try for displays there also...
The Displays Stands on the weekend of the superbikes is a great idea.. I think a few bikes actually riding around the track as a display on that actual weekend would have been alot more beneficial than running a meet the following weekend...for what the sport will gain & for what the riders may or may not gain from attending.. Driving 28 hours and maybe have 1 drama & its all over for the year...
I think we're going to have to go back to a 3 round series...

ok, thanks for that .

Personally I think pushing mini motard and motard along with PB is a big mistake and no gain to PB's at all with AKA tracks . 1/ Motard is dead 2/ too much of a gamble and too much to lose for PB's if Motard does and will get the boot from AKA clubs . There a big reasons why AKA clubs will not allow Motard's . Too many to list.

If that's all there is on offer due to pressure form MA , better off with out them I say . Motards is MA problem .


with " but some who stay to make it a holiday, may visit the event."

As a part time resident of PI, I can count one hand those amounts of individuals .

To me, from what I have seen and read so far, there seems to be "blinkers" on some in regards to MA and the the best move forward for the sport ? Is this not true ?

Dazza..Why not discuss this on the forum?...Who are you to say other...what part of communist Australia do you come form ? I will be discussing the hell out off this as I don't agree with anything you have posted.
You have no right to push Motards on us..we don't race them here in SA and don't wish too either..why the push for this..we are a pocketbike club and that is all we race, we don't need to rely on them to prop up our club !
Who made you king a said to approach MA on behalf of us here in SA?
I'm getting tired of hearing 2nd hand info from previous meetings held at last years titles..from what I can see that is only a small percentage of the minimoto public received the info!
Why don't you concerntrate more on your own state and get more tracks in Victoria..instead of having to direct people to your one track in Warrnambool .Leave us alone with your grand standing..unless you want to form a proper body involving all states..and lets not make it a MA thing.
You and I both know..MA is an insurance...they have a hand book that sets out guidelines that we must run to in order for its affilated clubs to be covered...along with a few other perks.Thats all!!!
One last thing Dazza...We know all the key figures here in SA who own the AKA tracks we ride on...they are tired of people approaching them to ride 4 stroke bikes on their tracks.....so let it be!Its not going to happen here!!!