MSA

As competition secretary, and as the Club is MSA affiliated and part of the ACSMC, I attended a comittee meeting last week.

Usual stuff, but also Colin Hilton, Chief Executive of the MSA was in attendance. His presence confirms that the ACSMC does have weight and that Colin is interested to help motorsport at grass roots levels as well as at the heights of F1.

Some points to mention.

The MSA website will become more of a focal point, use it and read it, so you dont miss stuff. http://WWW.MSAUK.ORG

Clubs organising competative events should publish them on the MSA web site. That said, if you want to know what competative events are in your area, this is the place to look for them.
http://msauk.org/site/cms/contentChapterViewHosted.asp?chapter=241&Url=%2Fcustom%2Fasp%2Fredirect%2Fdefault%2Easp%3FRedirectTo%3DFixture0%2Easpx

More marshall training was conducted at Goodwood last month. over 40 attendees and they got to use safety and rescue kit for the whole day. If you would like to be a marshall, it costs nothing and you will get VERY close to the action. Many mashalls at the top level get invited to support F1-GP events worldwide.

Colin Hilton explained that Max Mosely had moved on, Jean Todd is not the FIA President and the UK rep is the Vice-president. This is a key role and means the UK is now very influential in the FIA.

New Blue Book rule changes will be posted on the MSA web site, you can comment/object etc and they will be implimented quicker than in the past. 6-9 months, rather than 2+ years.

Colin also talked about how the MSA is getting closer to the MPs, so that they can better understand Motorsport and what Drivers etc need. MPs already understand the horse-world, so about time they looked after Motorsport too. Colin has been busy lobbying some influenciatial MPs.

Here are the SPEED regs that are under review.
http://www.msauk.org/uploadedfiles/regulations/SpeedMarch2010.pdf
If you want to discuss them, please get in touch with me.

ACSMC site is http://www.acsmc.com
and it caters for a lot of motorsport disiplines.

This evening I attended another ACSMC meeting.
Main points.....which could affect us....
Alan Dean-Lewis, Head of External affairs for the MSA attended and he made the following points during an interesting 40 minute address.
- The enewsletter was sent to 60,000 addresses, worldwide. The MSA is now getting lots of feedback and enquires from other countries. I often post a link to it on this forum, but it is for all, not just MSA members.
- The enewsletter is not a replacement for the Motorsport glossy magazine.
- Magazine went to press today, expect it by the end of the month.
- 2011 will see a new 'printer' producing it, it will be different, maybe smaller pages but more of them.
- see lots of stuff on www.gomotorsport.tv and you can upload your own stuff to share with fellow petrolheads.
- The MSA has loads of cash in the Club development fund. They give 50% grants for suff costing up to 5 grand. Often it is safety related, like radios etc etc, or to improve sites if the upgrade will last for years.
- the Training development fund also has cash in it.
-Licence fees are under review, they "might" go up by a very small amount.
-The AGM and Prize-giving (might be finger food available too) will be on Monday 7 Feb.
- General meetings will also be on Wed 1st June and Thurs 13 October, in 2011.

[mettersl]

Thanks Simon- are you sure about the motorsport.tv ;link- it goes to a dirt bike site....
Cheers
Lee

I wondered how long it would take an eagle eyed Alpine owner to notice.
try www.gomotorsport.tv