Gippsland Go Kart Club
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Hope everyone had a great Christmas and new year, we are having a meeting at the CLUB ROOMS on the 29th of January, 7.30 start. It would be great to see members attend this event, catch up and prepare for the season ahead
Great day had by all !!
Awesome pics as always Steve Dansie - great day - great club
We had members compete at Mildura Kart Club on the weekend for the 2018 Victorian State Cup. Our members had a competitive outing across the weekend. See results below. Welldone to everyone that represented Gippsland GoKart club at the state cup!
Don’t forget to join us tonight for our network night. Purpose of this is to Social get together,
To invite others outside the club to come down and check us out , exchange ideas and the bar will be open , food, music and TV
available. Tag your mates
Looking forward to it.
Who is attending the end of year breakup? Would be great to have everyone there to celebrate a great 2018! 9th December, meals to be served from 1pm
We held our final clubday of the season yesterday. Great to see a few people bring out their Yamaha S engines for a run. The day started off dry only for the rain to come down, making for some exciting racing. Welldone to everyone on their results this weekend. Thankyou to everyone who supported the club this year it is greatly appreciated, we are looking forward to 2019! See you all at the Christmas breakup!!
Probably the best way to say it. But thank you to everyone who helped out yesterday with Harrison. So far updates are good. Thank you for everyone who came to check up on my sister and I and thank you to Shannon for getting Kaitlyn on the track for her last racers. All over just thank you to the whole club. Cant wait to see most of your at the xmas party and everyone else in 2019. Merry Christmas and Happy New Year to you all.
Awesome pics as always. Thanks Steve x
Congratulations to Riley Jabke Racing who took out the win in KA4 Junior Heavy c&d on the weekend at the Geelong junior challenge
Don’t forget to race your Yamaha “S” and “J” this November Clubday! This weekend
About The Gippsland Kart Club
GGKC history
A meeting was called for people interested in forming a go kart club in the Latrobe Valley. This was held at the Church hall in Traralgon, on the site where the Saloon Bar currently sits. The meeting took place on 16 February 1983 – Ash Wednesday. Noel and Pam Morrisby called the meeting and were late getting there due to road blocks caused by the fires. At this meeting they were elected President and Secretary with those attending this first meeting made honorary members of the “Latrobe Valley Kart Club”.
Lloyd Wicks and his sons Mark and Grant were at the meeting and they are possibly the only people from that first meeting still involved in the sport. (Not 100% sure, but Ken Bright and Rob Bumpstead might have been there, or the 2nd meet the following month – not 100% sure of any others)
Soon after, the club held it’s first race meeting – an “Open” in the North car park of the Mid Valley Shopping Centre. It was a day/night meeting and attracted the main Melbourne drivers. Alan and Rob Bumpstead competed, as did Greg Smith, John Lord, and the Ritter brothers Michael and Greg (in sub-juniors) as well as many others.
Club racing was held at the Morwell Hillclimb in 1983-84. Club members Barney Hogan and Nigel Brockelsby did an enormous amount of earthworks at the track to allow karts to race. It was like a mini Bathurst, but was so narrow that at part of the track racing had to be single file! The VKA eventually stopped the racing there due to safety concerns and the club was trackless for a few years until the Tramway Park circuit opened in 1988. A number of members traveled the state and competed at Geelong, Oakleigh and Brooklyn until the local circuit was ready.
As part of promoting the sport and growing its membership, the club ran numerous meetings in the SSW Shopping Centre car park in Sale in 1986.
In 1987 a new track at Tramway Park was built and the first open meeting was held 14th February 1988. On 10th December 1989, the club put on the ‘Wings & Wheels’ spectacular on the RAAF base in Sale. This used the runways and taxiways on what turned out to be a high speed layout that again attracting the state’s top karters.
| Club Name | Gippsland Go Kart Club |
| Circuit Name | Tramway Park Raceway |
| Club Location | 130 Princes Drive, Morwell 3480 |
| Club Website | www.ggkc.org.au |
| Club Facebook | www.facebook.com/pages/Gippsland-Go-Kart-Club/575432429222799 |
| Club Contact | Tony Correa |
| Phone | 0402 903 400 |
| asrfvicsec@speedweb.com.au | |
On board video from Gippsland Go Kart Clubs Tramway Park Raceway
| Club Details | |
| Club Postal Address | 1 Somers Place, Traralgon 3844 |
| Club Personnel | |
| Club President | Peter Richards |
| Phone | 0408 542 126 |
| richo.richards063@gmail.com | |
| Club Vice President | |
| Name | Ross Miller |
| Phone | 0982 184 407 |
| rossmiller09@hotmail.com | |
| Club Secretary | Tony Correa |
| Mobile | 0402 903 400 |
| asrfvicsec@speedweb.com.au | |
| Postal | 18 Butters Street, Morwell, 3840 |
| Club Race Secretary | Lorraine Aitken |
| Phone | (03) 5625 3332 |
| Mobile | 0417 302 023 |
| Postal | 30 Fairway Drive, Drouin. 3818 |
| lpaitken@bigpond.com | |
| Licence Secretary | Jade Correa |
| Phone | 0439 769 866 |
| jadescorrea82@outlook.com | |
| Track Details | |
| Track Name | Tramway Park Raceway |
| Track Location | Tramway Road, Mowell |
| Track Length | 600m |
| Grid Capacity | 22 |
| Track Surface | Bitumen |
| Direction | – |
| Open Hours | 9am-6pm |
| Camping Facilities | No |
Gippsland Go Kart Club details last updated 5/11/2018