The Tesla Owners Club of Western Australia recently held its inaugural Electric GoKart Championships at the Powerplay indoor track in Joondalup. The concept was proposed by TOCWA committee member Peter Petrovsky who arranged a private event that would give Tesla owners full use of the track over a 4 hour time slot.
The 48 pre-registered drivers separated into random groups of 8 driving a 12 lap qualifying session. After the initial 6 qualifying sessions drivers were placed into 6 finals according to their fastest lap time, each final of 8 closely matched drivers was a 12 lap test of skill with the fastest lap time being declared the winner.
Trophies were Tesla themed with – Rainbow Road, Sport, Insane, Ludicrous, Plaid and Plaid Plus awards. We also had a Chill Award presented to Julie-Anne Watson for showing great Spirit at the event.
The evening ran fairly smoothly considering it was our first event of this kind, the committee are planning a few tweaks for next year that should make it even more enjoyable.
A big thanks to the great staff at Powerplay Joondalup, to the committee for organizing the online booking system and email communications, and of course to Peter Petrovsky for overseeing the whole event.
Easter eggs painted by Kerstin Hanusch during the annual Sorbian Easter egg market at the Sorbian cultural center in Schleife, Germany. (Steffi Loos, Getty Images)
Come along to Canning River Eco Education Centre, known locally as CREEC, at Kent St Weir for a family friendly Easter egg hunt and lunch on Easter Sunday, April 4th – we’ll meet from 11am and get set up.
Bring the kids (and kids at heart) and enjoy the first weekend of the school holidays.
TOCWA Casual meetups are open to everyone including those who have never seen a Tesla before. It’s an ideal opportunity to meet club members and to see the cars in the flesh which we are all passionate about. It’s also a great way for new owners to learn more about their cars and to share in the vast pool of knowledge gained by other members.
We hope to see you there and look forward to chatting about all things Tesla.
Our first meetup of 2021 will be our regular casual meetup on Wednesday evening the 6th of January. Instead of our usual online Wednesday, we’ll meet at:
The Raffles Hotel, Canning Beach Rd, Applecross from 6:30pm
Members and others are welcome to come and chat about all things Tesla, and prospective owners are welcome to come and see what we’re all love about being part of the EV revolution
Our first planned event for 2021 is a visit and tour at the Gravity Discovery Centre on January 17th in the evening – this will be a paid event – details on how to book will be emailed out shortly.
On the back of the great success of last year’s events at the Galaxy Drive-in, we are returning to watch Misbehaviour starring Keira Knightly and Greg Kinnear.
Next Tuesday 1st December, TOCWA will be at the Galaxy Drive-In Theatre in Kingsley – Perth’s very last Drive-in.
Come and join us in reliving our 20th Century childhoods watching a movie in the back of our 21st Century cars!
Gates open at 6:15 and the movie starts at 7:30pm.
The Tuesday entrance fee is $22 per car. The circa 1974 Cafeteria sells cool drinks, freshly cooked Burgers, Hot Chips and a few other items. BYO stronger drinks.
We will be gathering at Moolanda park opposite 6 Harness Street Kingsley from 6:00pm, before driving in convoy around the corner to the Drive-In at 157 Goollelal Drive Kingsley 6026 at about 6:45pm.
All members and friends are most welcome to join us in celebrating our cars and reviving fond memories.
Following the success of our inaugural overnight road trip to Kulin in October, TOCWA is pleased to announce an extended long weekend road trip to Kalbarri between Friday 4th and Monday 7th December 2020.
To make the trip a more pleasurable experience, we will be deploying TOCWA’s “Shark-fin” 50kW Tritium fast DC charger in Geraldton so that all participants can rapidly charge their cars there as well as the existing fast DC charger in Jurien Bay.
In order to provide maximum flexibility for all owners interested in participating, we are providing a smorgasbord of six arrival and departure dates from Friday through to Monday. This means that participants can drive to and stay at Kalbarri for one, two or three nights.
Bookings are needed for each car travelling regardless of how many people are travelling in each car – so please only make one booking per car. Our Trybooking site is hopefully self-explanatory in the way it provides for any one of six travel options to be selected. When booking, please provide desired travel times there and back so we can develop an effective charging roster at Jurien Bay and Geraldton.
Members should have received a booking link – please get in touch if you still need it.
At this stage, we are aiming to limit car numbers to about 12, but this may change depending on how many cars intend to travel on each outbound and returning day combination.
