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Federal  Court action concluded :
AKANSW Inc. plus 5 Clubs and two Officials - GUILTY of Price Fixing.

This guilty finding by the Court creates a piece new history for the NSW AKA , karting and and its affiliates - it also highlightes the inability of it's Executive to understand right and wrong , its  incompetence to properly inform its member clubs and delegates of the law -and simple understanding of right and wrong-  the penalty - a monetary amount imposed by the court and the legal costs are burdens that all NSW karters will have to bear - plus the misguided belief that AKA insurance will pay for illegal activity to impose all the other States karters to foot the bill with  imminent increase in premiums forever .. further belief that this was a minor issue is plain bulldust and clearly shows the contempt these NSW officials have for everything correct and proper - they must all resign and in particuilar those who hold National positions ..

Court orders can be viewed at the link below ...Supreme Court

 

 

 

 

 

 
2010_Champiopnship_Mackay.jpg (28859 bytes)Congratulations to the Mackay Kart Club  for the presentation of the facility for this event. It is a dramatic change from the last Qld State Championships conducted there some 15 years ago, and to the members go the accolades – Congratulations on a job well done. The racing too was of a high standard and more congratulations go to the competitors who made it so – the winners and the grinners provided a spectacle for the sports members and spectators.

Unfortunately, some officials standards detracted from the polished professional performance of the karters and if we can just get across this quickly, one of those laws of diminishing returns will get reversed.

It is not acceptable that standard rule book infractions and prescribed penalties can’t be applied by officials consistently or at all after the likes of Brian Sparrow and others have worked so tirelessly to get the vagaries out of the rules and provided the training for all the officials to apply them the same way.  Consistency is king. 

The work done on the current table in the book should be enough for any official to resolve 99% of issues that arise but unfortunately, and I still believe, too often, a howler gets missed and at a state title, the highest level of competition offered in a state, it’s an unacceptable and unnecessary detraction from what is otherwise a wonderful event.

In some cases, the officials actions bordered on stupidity eg.– an air box dislodged during an event receives a DQ from that section event – the failure to have bead locks in a rim receives a DQ from that section of the event, both understandable and appropriate penalties, but then this - using a non compliant component in an engine receives a $150 dollar fine and retains a podium position in the final !! – the excuse apparently was “we were not aware of the rule change” – for mine there was no rule change in 2010, the rule has been in force via Addendum #8 from April 2009 and included in the Manual 2010 as all other Addendums are ,and add this, our State NKC delegate would have voted on that Addendum...!!!!  competitors in South Australia last year were issued a DQ from the podium at a State Championship event  fined and suspended…!!!   Go figure that one !!

And this, primary school stuff, issuing a penalty notification for a nose cone that came off instead of deeming the kart non compliant.lodging a complaint and the Stewards imposing the penalty - there are only five instances where a penalty notification form  can be effected - non compliant kart formula is not one of them ..only weight - noise- fuel - transponder and starting infringement.It is quite clear that only Stewards can issue a penalty for this type of breach upon a proper complaint but that too seems to have been ignored.


On a sad note, it seems we will be losing the services of a long standing official and colleague of mine on the technical team, Mr. Harold Arnett. Harold has served karting in many guises from track official to NKC delegate for at least 20+ years.

Presumably deciding not to waste a tribunal’s time, and man that he is, he has admitted that he has breached the rules and when called on, will likely just hand in his officials tickets and say OK, times up…
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PS – Tech In Tasmania some years back threw a crank in the bin as he deemed it non compliant – the AKA removed him from holding an officials position forever..! 

 

 

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