SOUTH WALES LEAGUE NEWS

Last Updated 26th June 2008

MENS QUALIFIERS FOR NATIONALS 2008

Class 1 - PHD26 Lee Pearce & PHD226 Paul Pearce Reserve

Class 2 - S2 Tony Hart Jones & S6 Craig Evans

Class 3 - CM4 Viv Cole & TA2 Kevin Phillips

Class 4 - CM7 Huw Jones & CM53 Lyndon George with TA84 Rhydian Evans as Reserve

Class 5 - PHD93 Bryan Neale & CM40 Malcolm Herbert

Class 6 - S7 Neil Crompton & TA220 Barry Davies with PHD57 Neil Morgan as Reserve

Class 7 - S1 Craig Kampschulte & TA22 Dylan Hughes with TA6 Emyr Evans as Reserve

Class 8 - TA19 Alun Thomas &  TA58 Stephen Jones Reserve

Class 9 - TA111 Kevin Jones with S50 Duncan Rea as Reserve

Class 10 - PHD10 Gary Ray & TA49 Godfrey ThomaS

PLEASE CONTACT NICOLA IN THE EVENINGS NEXT WEEK TO LET HER KNOW WHETHER YOU ARE GOING TO THE NATIONALS OR NOT.  TEL: 01267290550 if Nicola isn't home, then please leave a message on her answer phone.

NEXT LEAGUE MEETING

Please note that the next meeting will be Wednesday 17th September at the Football Club.

RACE MEETING 26TH MAY

The meeting has been cancelled due to the weather.

ALLOCATIONS 2008

Class 1        -        1 & 4th Jnt Reserve

Class 2        -        2

Class 3        -        2

Class 4        -        2 & 8th Jnt Reserve

Class 5        -        2

Class 6        -        2 & 13th Reserve

Class 7        -        2 & 11th Jnt Reserve

Class 8        -        1 & 8th Jnt Reserve

Class 9        -        1 & 6th Jnt Reserve

Class 10      -        2

The League points will be updated on the website this week so that everyone can see where they stand at the moment on points - Please do not contact Nicola until Tuesday as she is not doing the points until next week.

MAY NEWS

Happy Birthday to Malcolm Herbert CM40, Nicola Davies CM47, Neil Reed TA221 & Rhian Jenkins TA29.  Good luck to Steven Davies CM47 & Sian Griffiths on their wedding on 17th May.

BAS ROUND 1 - 3/4 MAY

A big thank you from all the League committee to all the members that helped before, during and after this meeting.  I hope you're all feeling very proud of yourselves as the meeting was a great success and many positive comments have been received from the visiting drivers. Congratulations to everyone who competed, I will update the website as soon as I can with the results.

RACE MEETING - 20TH APRIL

A big thank to everyone that pulled together today and worked so hard throughout the race meeting.  There is a work party next weekend Saturday and Sunday to get the field completed ready for the BAS round the following weekend.  If you cannot go down on the weekend, then there is plenty of painting to be done which you could do after work in the week nights.  Many hands make light work!

APRIL NEWS

Happy 60th Birthday to Paul Pearce PHD226, Colin & Bethan Marks, Keith Jones, Chris Neale & Martyn Collins PHD8.

NEXT RACE MEETING - 20TH APRIL

The next race meeting is Sunday 20th April.  There is also a work party at the track Saturday 19th April.

AUTOGRASS LAIDBARE CALENDAR 2008

If anyone in the league is interested in supporting this worthy cause - Cancer Research - by purchasing one of these calendars and would like to save on the postage costs, then please contact me by email and preorder a calendar.  Prices are £12.00 each or 2 for £10, or 3 and over for £8.00.  Please email me on cm.40@virgin.net.

LONDON MARATHON - 13th April

Huw Davies, TA9 is running the London Marathon on 13th April for the Welsh Air Ambulance Service.  Anyone who would like to support Huw and this worthy cause which is often used in the sport of Autograss can contact him on huwdavies2@aol.com or via mobile on 07976573665. 

RACE MEETING - 24TH MARCH

Thanks to all league members who helped at the meeting, even the ones that were in attendance but had no cars to race, your help was greatly appreciated - you should all be feeling very proud or yourselves - the field was cleared and everyone leaving by 5.30pm and there was no need to shout for marshalls etc all day.    For the ones that had to leave the meeting early for whatever reason - your names have been noted.  The Best Turned Out awards who were judged by the St John Ambulance crew were:

Saloon - PHD23 Lally Buirds; Special - PHD12 Carl Ray; Junior Saloon - CM22 Matthew Scourfield; Junior Special - PHD72 Jake Roberts.

RACE MEETING - 9TH MARCH

The meeting has been cancelled.

MARCH NEWS

Happy Birthdays to Owen Marks who is 18 on 20th March & PHD112 Derek John & Steven Rogers.  We hope Sharon Mason is feeling better soon after her short hospital stay this weekend.

LICENCE REMINDER

If you haven't already done so and you want to race on 9th March at our 1st race meeting, please ensure that you get your licence sent away to Sandy Williams next week at the latest.

MESSAGE FROM CHAIRMAN

Chairman would like to thank the handful of hard working members  that made the effort and turned up to help with the track erection last weekend.  He would also like to make all league members aware that unless we have a Treasurer in place in the next week or so, there will be no prize money handed out at the first race meeting as it is the Treasurer that obtains the money from the bank and prepares all the prize money envelopes and as we currently do not have one then this task will not be done!

MESSAGE FROM CHAIRMAN

Can everyone please attend the track this weekend, Saturday and Sunday depending on weather.  Can everyone please give up some of their time even if it's only an hour to help out so that we can race on 9th March.  If the track isn't ready, then there will be no race meeting.

FEBRUARY NEWS

Happy Birthdays to Gareth Jones; Vicky Reed TA221; Donna Cambell TA44;Gwyndaf Jenkins TA32 & Rachel Dewhurst PHD3.  I have added the link on the main page to the Autograss Laid Bare Charity calendar which is in aid of cancer research.  I will have some to sell in the league so if anyone wants one please send me your details.

JANUARY NEWS

Happy Birthdays to Cenfyn Davies; Matthew Dance; Louise Francis TA49;Danielle & Michelle Phillips.  Hope everyone has recovered after Xmas.

DECEMBER NEWS

Happy Birthdays to Erma Davies; Christine Rogers & TA111 Kevin Jones.  Hope everyone has a great Xmas and New Year.

NEXT LEAGUE MEETING - 13th February 2008

Next meeting 13th February 2008. Each area to have at least 4 representatives present at the meeting.

NOVEMBER NEWS

Happy Birthdays to TA222 Heulwen Reed; Ingrid Herbert; Beryl Thomas; Iori Phillips; CM47 Steven Davies and TA70 Carol Marks & Scott Marshall.

Congratulations to all the trophy winners who received their awards at the dinner last night.

MONSTER TRUCK SHOW AT MILLENNIUM STADIUM- 27th November

Well done to Norman Mason, Endaf Owens, Dickie Lindsay and Gareth Paines on participating on behalf of the league at the Millennium Stadium.  The show was great, and the Class 7s who ttok part certainly promoted the sport of autograss well.  You will soon be seeing Stormin Norman's name all over the place as he had a queue of people wanting his autograph during the "Party at the Pitts".

NEXT LEAGUE MEETING - 21st November

Next meeting 21st November when the BAS round will be discussed.  There have been many changes made in the league since the AGM last week.  Every league member from this season will shortly be receiving a newsletter detailing all the amendments.  It is very important that you read it thoroughly as there are conditions in the new rules which were passed at the AGM meeting which will/may have an effect on whether you will continue to be a member of this league.  Other important amendments are, unless there are 5 members present from each area at the league meetings in future, then there will be no further meetings and no committee to run the league, the Chairman and other committee members do not believe there is any point continuing with the league meetings unless there are more than 4 people in attendance at the meeting.  Please bear in mind that our Chairman drives 2 hours to get to these meetings to try and get the opinions of league members as to what they want done in the league, to the track etc.  Unfortunately, it has now got to the point that the committee do not see a point of holding a meeting when there are only 4 other people in attendance as the committee can make these decisions over the phone to each other if no league members are interested in what is going on in the league.  The league qualifiers have also been changed for next season.

Can everyone who has an email address in the South Wales League please send me your details so that the important Newsletter can be emailed directly to you when it is ready to save on postage costs.  My email is cm.40@virgin.net.

OCTOBER NEWS

Happy Birthdays to Adam Jones TA44; Bobbie Neale PHD73; and Norman Mason PHD137. Congratulations to Martyn & Nia James CM14 on the birth of their baby daughter Gwen last weekend.

COMMITTEE DETAILS

These details can be located on the "About Us" page of this website.

LEAGUE ADMISSION CHARGES/LICENCE FEES 2008

ADMISSION CHARGES                    ST Johns signing on fee

ADULTS: £6.00                                  £2.00 per person   in south wales league

OAPs: £3.00                                       £1.50 per person to all other league drivers

Children under 12: FREE

LIcence fees for 2006                PRIZE MONEY AT RACE MEETINGS

Mens/ladies:    £40.00                   1st:        £15.00

Juniors:            £25.00                    2nd:       £10.00 

Mechanics:      £10.00                    3rd:       £5.00

members:         FREE

 PRIZE MONEY FROM RACE MEETINGS

It was decided at the league meeting that if you do not collect your prize money on the race day then you will only have until 9pm that night to get in touch with Nicola (01267-290550) or Heulwen Reed and request them to retain the money on your behalf.  

PITTS AREA AT RACE MEETINGS

Important news regarding rules at the South Wales League race meetings - any unauthorised people that are in the pitts area during the race meeting will be asked to leave immediately and the race meeting will not continue until they have left.  Should anyone refuse to leave, then the driver that they are associated with will be penalised by not being able to participate in the race meeting, if they are South Wales League members then they will also have all their accumulated league points for that race meeting cancelled.  If any family members wish to enter the pitts during racing, then please apply for a members licence and sign on at pitts control.

For anyone that is interested in advertising on this website, please contact me, or send me all your details that describe your business. 

From Carmarthen take the A40 towards St Clears. At the roundabout in St Clears (Little Chef on your right) take the first exit towards Pembroke Dock/Tenby (A477). Go through the village of Llanddowror and on to the next village called Red Roses. Once at Red Roses take the first left opposite the Sporting Chance pub.  Follow the road for about 2 miles and take the first left, continue for about 100 yards and the track is on the right.  It will be signposted from Red Roses.

From Whitland, at the St Clears roundabout take the 3rd exit towards Tenby and follow above instructions.

From Pembrokeshire/Tenby, head for Red Roses and take a right turn opposite the Sporting Chance pub and follow the above instructions.

POINTS SYSTEM FOR LEAGUE 2008

Just so that everyone knows the points system correctly from the beginning of the season.  The points from the heats and the final will be added together to give a grand total. The points are as shown below.  For the opens, points will be based on finals only.  There will be League Trophies presented at the end of the year in the League dinner to 4th place in each class, however, it will depend on how many are in the Ladies classes.  The points given in the finals will be for the position that you cross the line regardless if there are any other League cars in the race, so if you cross the line in 3rd place and there are 2 cars from another League ahead of you, you will be given 3rd place points and not 1st place points as it used to be years ago.  Any problems please see any of the League Committee who will explain all.  There will be 5 qualifying meetings in 2008 with 4 out of 5 to count.  There are no League Points given for the Dash 4 Cash/Trophy meeting.

points system - heats

1st    2nd    3rd    4th    5th    6th    7th    8th    9th    10th

55       45          36      28         21      15       10         6        3         1

points system - finals

1st    2nd    3rd    4th    5th    6th    7th    8th    9th    10th

66       54        43         34       25      18         12       7           4         1