News : MX-5 Club of NSW

Turon Technology Museum

24 August 2017 / Words by Theresa Bown Pictures by Jason Brown and Rob Wilkins

Despite having some vagrants and females of doubtful reputation, RPM visited the Turon Technology Museum.

Donkey Day Out

23 August 2017 / Story by Sandra Duric Photos by Jason Brown

RPM Donkey Day Out, a trip of food, fun, laughter, and donkeys.

Club hillclimb July 2017 - photo by Grant Webber

Hillclimb Round 2

22 August 2017 / Article: Keiran Taylor, Photos: Grant Webber

Keiran is a stay-at-home mum of two toddlers and treated herself to some "mummy me time" at the Ringwood Park hillclimb. Read on for her story. Entries for the final hillclimb round of 2017 are now open!

20th Anniversary of Motorsport dinner

19 August 2017 / Ian Combes

Bookings are now open for our 20th anniversary motorsport dinner on 25th November in Goulburn.

24th Cobra Nationals 2017

18 August 2017 / Ian Combes

The MX-5 Club has been asked if we would like to participate in the 24th Cobra Nationals. It is a three day track event held at Wakefield Park on 29,30 September and 1 October 2017.

New rules for Concours d'Elegance

17 August 2017 / Michael Soulos

The rules for judging entrants in Concours d’Elegance have been changed for 2017 as a trial of the Open Concours Rules to allow those members with MX-5s that were previously judged down on originality able to compete on a more even playing field for Concours honours.

Whale Watching Illawarra Style

16 August 2017 / Story: Brendan Barr Photos: Brendan Barr, Julie Farquhar & Bryan Shedden

Will the wild wanderers from Wollongong way watch any whales?

NSWRRC Regularity Relay 2017 at SMP GP Easter 2017

Easter 2018 6hr Regularity Relay

02 August 2017 / Stewart Temesvary

NSW Road Racing Club will be running the third annual 6 hour regularity relay at SMP GP circuit on the Easter weekend next year - 31 March 2018 and 1 April 2018. Most of the teams that competed in 2017 will be back in 2018 to try and stop the MX-5 Club from repeating the success of 2017 where the two RPM Chapter teams (Blue Mountains Mazda and Panorama Mountain Men) took out first and second place. The event is run over two days with Easter Saturday being devoted to practice and Easter Sunday being the event. Entries for this event open on Tuesday 8 August and teams are currently being organised.

2015 CareFlight donation - presentation by Glenn Thomas (Vice President) to John Legge (CareFlight Air Crewman) on 11 December 2015

Charity Lunch for CareFlight

30 July 2017 / Story by Lindsay Green & Josh Fitzgerald & Photos by Peter Hilkmann & Rob Wilko

Each year the MX-5 Club of NSW organises a charity lunch event to help raise funds for the club’s chosen charity – CareFlight. This year the Hunter chapter was chosen to host this prestigious event.

Walcha Weekend combined with Hunter Xmas in July.

29 July 2017

Walcha Weekend with the Hunter MX 5 Car Club Xmas in July.

Canberra Chapter Annual Chapter Meeting

27 July 2017

The Canberra Chapter Annual Chapter Meeting will be held on Wednesday 16 August at the Woden Southern Cross Club in the Rainbow Room at 7:30 PM following dinner in the Golden Grille Bistro at 6:00pm. Come along and enjoy dinner and a brief meeting.

Hunter Weekend in Walcha

25 July 2017 / Article: Christine Cameron, Photos: Grant Webber, David Gazzard, Ian Nunn

The Hunter Chapter loves Christmas so much we celebrate it TWICE a year and this July 16 cars reveled in driving some great NSW country roads to enjoy the wintry but welcoming hospitality of Walcha.

Winter Warmer and Charity Lunch

24 July 2017 / Words: Bricet Klören, Pictures: Peter Le

The Canberra Chapter raised a total of $2,126.65 at our Winter Warmer and Charity Lunch on 23 July 2017!

2017 NSW Supersprint Round 5 - photo by Rob Wilkins

NSW Supersprint Championships - Round 5

20 July 2017 / Words by Ed Cory; Photos by Rob Wilkins

The quest for the "Four-peat" continues (four consecutive wins for the MX-5 Club in the Club Championship), with Round 5 adding a mighty 9 points (!) to our lead over the Australian Racing Drivers Club – now 63 points, 1907 to 1844. Thanks to the 18 Club members competing we added a total of 416 points to our tally.