1. There is no club meeting for January. The first meeting of the year will be at the West Ryde Hotel on Monday 1 February. A reminder will follow closer to the time.

2. Clubs members Bruce Garland and Harry Suzuki and their sister team of Swedes Pelle Wallentheim and Olle Ohlsson are competing in the Dakar and are trying to improve upon last year’s placings. Bruce and Harry were 11th outright in their Isuzu D-Max ute and were actually capable of 7th outright were it not for the cancellation of a stage at the end. This was an astonishing result given that the factory teams were spending many millions of dollars (rumoured to be $100 million in one case) each to mount their challenges. Don’t forget to watch SBS’s coverage of the Dakar at 6pm each night (starting tonight). The Facebook link for Garland Motor Sport is here:

http://www.facebook.com/group.php?gid=212985626694&ref=nf

Please go in and check out developments and also show your support for the two teams.

3. Club member Molly Taylor goes back to the UK at the end of January to run a Citroen C2. These cars have more grunt than the Suzuki Swift Molly ran last year and she has been picking the brains of the young Irish rally star Marty McCormack who had had some astonishing outright results (like a 4th outright in the Ulster Rally !!!) in his C2R2 Max Citroen (190 bhp). Marty is also well known for his exploits in historic Escorts.  

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