News for Officials

In the 2 months since the official launch of the 2009 Repco Rally Australia, just over 450 volunteers have registered interest to act as official on the event.

Residents local to the area of the rally in northern New South Wales have embraced the event with 120 people completing the expressions of interest; almost 65% of the NSW tally.

Interest from Queensland residents is only slightly behind that of NSW and 44 Western Australia officials are keen to travel across the country for the 20th running of Rally Australia.

Expressions of interest have been received from residents in every state in Australia and also from New Zealand.

Many of the Queensland registrations are from accredited CAMS officials who currently officiate at Rally Queensland, the local round of the Australian Rally Championship and in 2009, a round of the FIA Asia Pacific Rally Championship. A significant number of these officials have “teams” of other officials working with them, and members of those teams are urged to also register as soon as possible.

The organisers of 2009 Repco Rally Australia would like to thank everyone who has registered an expression of interest to date. We are currently sorting through the information you supplied and will be in contact with you shortly.

Our new management team has been appointed and our permanent office opened last week in Murwillumbah. One of the first jobs of the team will be to design a regular newsletter to officials in order to keep you informed, particularly in relation to the commencement of training sessions.

We have had a great response to our request for expression of interest in being an official at the 2009 Repco Rally Australia and to our first Officials Briefing Night in Brisbane this coming Monday October 13.

We realise there are many who want to assist in the organisation of this FIA World Rally Championship event but who are unable to attend for various reasons.

Accordingly we will conduct the following
1. An additional briefing in Brisbane for those officials working at the Bathurst 1000
2. A specific briefing in both Murwillumbah and Kyogle for local officials in those areas
3. If possible, a briefing in Sydney

We will also consider the production of an information DVD for those who live in remote areas.

Please keep monitoring the situation by going to our website www.rallyaustralia.com

Thanks for your interest

Kind regards
Garry Connelly
Chairman, Organising Committee

Date: Monday, October 13, 2008

Time: 1900 hrs (7.00pm)

Venue: Christ Church, Community Precinct, 9 Chippendall St, Milton

Purpose: To provide general information on Repco Rally Australia 2009 and to seek expressions of interest from officials in filling various roles at the event.

Registration: In order to ensure the venue suitability, please register by sending an email to: qld@cams.com.au with the subject heading “Register for RRA Meeting”.  

Meeting Location Map - Download 200kb PDF.

You may also wish to register as an event official at the same time by going to: 
http://rallyaustralia.com/officials/expression-of-interest-form/

For your information, the various areas of sporting responsibility are listed below:

Results and scoring
Field Results Service
Field Media
Commentary
Rally Radio
Service Park
Remote Service Park
Refuels
Regroups and Parcs Ferme
Controls (part of Stage Team)
Spectator Points
Spectator Marshals
Mobile Security
Road Closures
Communications
ISC-T Liaison (Technology)
SOS 5 Km
SOS Tracking HQ
Reconnaissance (Tuesday and Wednesday prior to event) 
Courtesy Cars
HQ Reception
Officials Recruitment, Data Base, HR and Uniforms
Officials Training
Compliance, OH&S, Risk Management
Course Cars – preparation and servicing
Course Car Crews
Scrutineering
Tyre Marking team
Route Coordination, Road Book and Checking
Competitor Relations Officer
Aviation and Helicopter coordination
Fire and Rescue
Medical/First Intervention Vehicles
Spectator First Aid Posts
Service Park Hospital
Signage Teams
Eye in The Sky
Media Centre (Reception and Assistance)
Media Supervision and Assistance (Field)
Command Centre
VIP Liaison (Foreign ASNs, information for VIPs etc)
Minute Secretary for Sporting Committee
Minute Secretary for Organising Committee
Assistant to the Secretary of the Stewards

Planning is well underway for the 2009 Repco Rally Australia. In order to assist in preparing for the launch of Australia’s Round of the FIA World Rally Championship, the event is urgently seeking the assistance of volunteers skilled in one or more of the following areas:

• CAD design
• Use of programmes such as Adobe Acrobat
• Web hosting
• Website design
• Website content design and layout
• A/V production and editing
• IT, communications specialists

If you are a motor sport enthusiast with any of these skills and would like to assist in the planning and presentation of this great event as a volunteer, the organisers would love to hear from you.

Simply fill out the expression of interest form, available online now!