NZ Goldstar Series Class Winners

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Another fresh batch of class winners has been crowned after an intensely competitive third and final points round of the 2017/18 Manawatu & TRC Toyota WPKA Goldstar KartSport Series at Chemz Raceway near Hastings on Sunday.

After earlier rounds in Taranaki and Wellington a single point separated the top two in two of the seven classes and there are just four points separating first and second in the other five heading into the final round.

Joshua Parkinson, 1st Rotax Max Junior (pic – Fast Company/Vicky Jack)

Class by class the 2017/18 series winners were;

  • Blake Dowdall – Cadet ROK
  • Tom Bewley – Vortex Mini ROK
  • William Exton – Rotax Max Junior
  • Zach Zaloum – Rotax Max Light
  • Derek Lawrence – ClubSport 120
  • Brent Melhop – ClubSport LO206 (inaugural class winner)
  • Jacob Cranston- Open
Brent Melhop became the first winner in the ClubSport LO206 class (pic – Fast Company/Vicky Jack)

Class round winners at Hawke’s Bay were;

  • Blake Dowdall – Cadet ROK
  • Mason Potter – Vortex Mini ROK
  • Joshua Parkinson – Rotax Max Junior
  • Jackson Whitfield – Rotax Max Light
  • Matt Saunders – ClubSport 120
  • Brent Melhop – ClubSport LO206
  • Jacob Cranston – Open
Jacob Cranston, Open class #1 (pic – Fast Company/Vicky Jack)

The stand-alone class GP race (and GP series-within-a-series) remains a popular and always hard-fought bonus at each meeting for the 90+ karters from all over the country who every year support the long-running WPKA (Wellington Provincial Karting Association) series.




This season the GP winners at the final round were;

  • Judd Christiansen – Cadet ROK
  • Mason Potter – Vortex Mini ROK
  • William Exton – Rotax Max Junior
  • William Pearson – ClubSport
  • Jacob Cranston – Open

The GP series’ titles, meanwhile, went to:

  • Judd Christiansen – Cadet ROK
  • Tom Bewley – Vortex Mini ROK
  • Fynn Osborne – Rotax Max Junior
  • William Pearson – ClubSport
  • Jacob Cranston – Open
Blake Dowdall, Cadet ROK (pic – Fast Company/Vicky Jack)

A little bit of NZ karting history was also made at the meeting with Ben Stewart from Wellington and Harry Bewley from the Hawke’s Bay running the new 125cc direct drive Vortex ROK DVS Junior class karts for the first time.

The weekend’s round was the third and final points one of the 2017/18 Manawatu & TRC Toyota WPKA Goldstar KartSport Series. However there is always a single, stand-alone, ‘WPKA Championships’ meeting to wrap up each WPKA season and this year that meeting will be hosted by the KartSport Manawatu club in Palmerston North on Sunday June 03.

Jackson Whitfield, Rotax Max Light (pic – Fast Company/Vicky Jack)

2017/18 Manawatu & TRC Toyota WPKA Goldstar Series – RESULTS

Cadet ROK
Round
1. Blake Dowdall; 2. Blake Corin; 3. Judd Christiansen; 4. Hugo Neale; 5. Jay Urwin; 6. Kiahn Burt
Series
1. Blake Dowdall 174 points; 2. Kiahn Burt 172; 3. Judd Christiansen 169; 4. Blake Corin 166; 5. Hugo Neale 165; 6. Kerr Botha 161.


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Vortex Mini ROK
Round
1. Mason Potter; 2. Tom Bewley; 3. Hayden Bakkerus; 4. Logan Manson; 5. Jenson Bate; 6. Ryan Bell.
Series
1. Tom Bewley 178 points; 2. Hayden Bakkerus 173; 3. Mason Potter 167; 4, Logan Manson 160; 5. Jenson Bate 160; 6. Ryan Bell 159.

Rotax Max Junior
Round
1. Joshua Parkinson; 2. William Exton; 3. Fynn Osborne; 4. Riley Spargo; 5. Bradley Hewson; 6. Liam Sceats.
Series
1. William Exton 176 points; 2. Fynn Osborne 174; 3. Liam Sceats 160; 4. Riley Jack 157; 5. Zac Christiansen 156; 6. Bradley Hewson 155.

Rotax Max Light
Round
1. Jackson Whitfield; 2. James Higgins; 3. Zach Zaloum; 4. Campbell Jamieson; 5. James Aston; 6. Nathan Dahm
Series
1. Zach Zaloum 173 points; 2. James Higgins 169; 3. Campbell Jamieson 168; 4. Ashley Higgins 156; 5. Melanie Oughton 150; 6. Simon Wilcox 144..

ClubSport 120
Round
1. Matt Saunders; 2. William Pearson; 3, Brendon Print; 4. Stuart Frew; 5. Brent Hickmott; 6. Derek Lawrence
Series
1. Derek Lawrence 174 points; 2. William Pearson 174; 3. Nathan Nolly 165, 4. Brent Hickmott 165; 5. Stuart Frew 165; 6. Brendan Print 164.

ClubSport LO206
Round
1. Brent Melhop; 2. Shaun Croskery; 3. Hadleigh Coffey; 4. Shaun Hibbs; 5. Shane Sayer; 6. Nathan Clive.
Series
1. Brent Melhop 177 points; 2. Hadleigh Coffey 173; 3.Shaun Croskery 171; 4. Shane Sayer 166; 5. Glen Dodd 161; 6. Shaun Hibbs 113.

Open
Round
1. Jacob Cranston; 2. Jamie Gaskin; 3. Clint Beaumont; 4. Chris Simmonds; 5. Jason Gunn
Series
1. Jacob Cranston 180 points; 2. Clint Beaumont 173; 3. Jason Gunn 106; 4. Jamie Gaskin 58; 5. Brendon Jury 57; 6. Rianna O’Meara-Hunt 56.

GP Results:

Cadet ROK GP
Round
1. Judd Christiansen; 2. Jay Urwin; 3. Hugo Neale; 4. Blake Dowdall; 5. Arthur Broughan; 6. Izaak Fletcher.
Series
1. Judd Christiansen 143 points; 2. Hugo Neale 137; 3. Blake Dowdall 137; 4. Kiahn Burt 136; 5. Kerr Botha 130; 6. Mitchell Corin 120.

Vortex Mini ROK GP
Round
1. Mason Potter; 2. Tom Bewley; 3. Hayden Bakkerus; 4. Logan Manson; 5. Hunter Robb; 6. Hayden Lines
Series
2. Tom Bewley 144 points; 2. Hayden Bakkerus 139; 3. Mason Potter 138; 4. Ryan Bell 135; 5. Jenson Bate 132; 6. Logan Manson.

Rotax Junior GP
Round
1. William Exton; 2. Joshua Parkinson; 3. Fynn Osborne; 4. Leo Scott; 5. Riley Spargo; 6. Liam Sceats
Series
1.Fynn Osborne 141 points; 2. William Exton 140; 3. Bradley Hewson 127; 4. Leo Scott 127; 5. Riley Jack 127; 6. Liam Sceats 121.

Senior GP
Round
1. Jacob Cranston; 2. Clint Beaumont; 3. Zach Zaloum; 4. Jackson Whitfield; 5. James Aston; 6. Nathan Dahm
Series
1. Jacob Cranston 150 points; 2. Clint Beaumont 96; 3. Jackson Whitfield 93; 4. James Aston 88; 5. Jason Gunn 83; 6. Nathan Dahm75.

ClubSport GP
Round
1. William Pearson; 2. Stuart Frew; 3. Matt Saunders; 4. Brent Hickmott; 5. Brendon Print; 6. Chris Parkinson
Series
1.William Pearson 145 points (1st ClubSport 120); 2. Stuart Frew 135; 3. Nathan Nolly 133; 4. Hadleigh Coffey (1st ClubSport LO206) 119; 5. Shane Sayer 118; 6. Derek Lawrence 100.


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