January 2006
A training car built by pre-vocation students at the South Australian Regency Institute of TAFE was delivered this week to members of the AGP Formula One driver extrication teams.
These teams, made up of paramedics and intensive care paramedics from the SA Ambulance Service, will use the car and the contained carbon fibre F1 style driver extrication seat for training of personnel prior to the 2006 Australian Grand Prix and future events.
The car was built under a program initiated and fully funded by the Open-wheel Racing Car Club (ORCC) with partial funding assistance via a 2005 CAMS Sports Development Grant.
The program is aimed among other things to encourage young South Australian men and women into metal trade skill development via TAFE Learn to Earn activities.
Extensions to the collaborative ORCC/TAFE student training program in 2006 will complete the body for the car, and also provide a fully enclosed promotion trailer to be used both for promotion of Motor Sport and TAFE Learn to Earn programs.
PowerHealth Solutions director Paul Venables is a long time racing enthusiast and president of the Open Wheel Race Car Club.
Enquiries
Contact Trevor Pound, ORCC Secretary on 0407-396-029 or email Trevor.