from Dave Sturgeon | 25 May 2016 |
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The Mackay Club held its May race meeting on Saturday 21 May with 26 drivers in attendance. The weather looked threating but thankfully we only received a passing shower making for slippery conditions for the senior drivers on track at the time. The track dried up quickly and the rest of the day saw good times for all classes.
Good to see numbers up a little on last month, but we still have a ways to go to get back to the big fields we have had in the past.
Above: One of the club's young lady racers is Assunta Attard in Cadet 9
Our biggest classes were the Cadet 12 and KA4 Junior Light categories, which is good so long as we can retain these drivers.
Cadet 12 was dominated by young Dylan Le Garde, but Keelan O’Brien was right there with him in most of the heats. Keelan even managed to catch and pass Dylan in the last 2 laps of the final. It was great to watch, with both drivers keeping it clean all day.
Above: KA3 Senior Heavy racer Robbie Warne in action
Dylan’s big brother Riley was the eventual winner of the KA4 Junior Light class, but he had to work for the win, with Jayden Muir and Nicholas Garioch both keeping Riley honest throughout the heats. In the end Riley was just 1 point ahead of Jayden, with Nicholas home for 3rd.
Numbers in our senior classes are still low, which is unfortunate. Hopefully we can address this with our upcoming “come and try day” where we hope to grow our membership numbers.
Full Race results below.
Cadet 12
1st 99 Dylan LE GARDE
2nd 3 Keelan O'BRIEN
3rd 65 Harry ARMSTRONG
4th 48 Damian WHITE
5th 27P Troy COLEY
Cadet 9
1st 89 Dominic ATTARD
2nd 98 Assunta ATTARD
3rd 95P Ryan GIBSON
KA4 Junior Light
1st 98 Riley LE GARDE
2nd 22 Jayden MUIR
3rd 66 Nicholas GARIOCH
4th 88 Riley BEGGS
5th 6 Thomas BRAZIL
6th 24P Aaron STEVENSON
7th 11P Cameron STEVENSON
KA3 Senior Light
1st 2 Hayden VASSALLO
2nd 28 Richard MUCHA
KA3 Senior Heavy
1st 6 James FURINI
2nd 41 Robbie WARNE
TAG 125 Restricted Super
1st 56 David STURGEON
TAG 125 Light
1st 10 Roland LEGGE
2nd 70 Lincoln BAKER
TAG 125 Heavy
1st 11 Marc MUIR
2nd 49 James BUCHBACH
3rd 18 Jamie PENNINGH
4th 64 Peter BUCHBACH