On Sunday, October 23, Cooma Car Club will conduct a Motorkhana/Training Day as the first day of a novel junior driver development program. Conducted in conjunction with CAMS (Confederation of Australian Motor Sports), the junior development program has the twin objectives of introducing young drivers to grass roots motor sport and broadening the Car Club membership.
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Eligible participants will be juniors (14 to 17) years who have not previously participated in motor sport, and are interested in learning car control in a controlled and safe environment with a possible view to entering motorsport at a grass roots level.
Participants will first learn some practical car maintenance in a classroom prior to hands on experience (vehicle familiarization) on one of the club cars. This will be followed by a motorkhana event, where participants will learn some car control and get to experience how a car reacts at low speeds.
Motorkhana is a fabulous low cost form of motor sport, often providing someone with their first taste of motor sport in a standard road car, but also catering to the most skilled and experienced of drivers in highly modified or purpose built Motorkhana specials. Motorkhana is designed to test the acceleration, braking and general manoeuvrability of a vehicle and the skill and judgement of the driver. A motorkhana involves manoeuvring through tight and twisty tests marked by flags or cones.
The Motorkhana/Training Day is on Sunday, October 23 at ‘Longhouse’, 28 Polo Flat Road, 11 Bolaro Street, Cooma.
Participants may supply their own vehicles, which are required to meet basic safety standards, or may use one of the several club cars that will be made available.
The second event (of the Junior Development Program) will be a Hillclimb at Mt Gladstone in Cooma on the morning of Saturday, November 26, where participants will experience car control at higher speeds in a safe controlled environment with an instructor in the car with them until they feel confident enough to have a solo run.
Entry fee for both events is $30, for which attendees will receive a CAMS L2SJ licence, allowing them to enter any similar events in the following 12 months.
For more details www.coomacarclub.com.au/junior-development/