O'Meara-Hunt & Rooney Take More Goldstar Wins


  7 June 2016

The wins kept on coming for 2015/16 Bayleys WPKA Goldstar class champions Rianna O'Meara-Hunt and Jackson Rooney at the series' annual season-ending one-day 'Championship' meeting in Taranaki on Sunday.

O'Meara-Hunt from Wellington won three of the five Formula Junior class heats to claim overall day victory in that class while Jackson Rooney from Palmerston North won three of his five Vortex Mini ROK heats as well as the stand-alone class Grand Prix race to top score in that class.

Formula Junior winner Rianna O'Mear-Hunt
Above: Formula Junior winner Rianna O'Mear-Hunt
pic - Fast Company/Vicky Jack

The pace was fast and furious in the cool, dry conditions at host club KartSport Taranaki's Todd Energy Raceway at Waitara, with O'Meara-Hunt twice lowering the track lap record in her class before Tom Greig from Palmerston North claimed it for himself.

Greig also won the Junior Grand Prix race after finally taking the lead on the last lap, and ended up a close second (there was just one point in it) behind O'Meara-Hunt in the Formula Junior class standings with second-generation Hawke's Bay racers Zac Stichbury and Ronan Murphy third and fourth respectively.

Second both for the day and in the Vortex Mini ROK class Grand Prix was top local driver Thomas Boniface with Ryan Crombie third in class and fourth in the Grand Prix race.

Jackson Rooney leads the way to victory in Vortex Mini ROK
Above: Jackson Rooney won the round in Vortex Mini ROK, plus the GP
pic - Fast Company/Vicky Jack

Three heat race wins were also enough to give reigning New Zealand Sprint champion Mason Potter overall victory in the Cadet ROK class,  though it was fellow Aucklander Liam Sceats who won the class Grand Prix race from Potter, Logan Manson and class round runner-up and first heat race winner Kaden Probst.

In the Senior classes Zach Zaloum dominated 125cc Rotax Max Heavy with four heat wins from five starts, while victory in 125cc Rotax Max Light went to young gun Jacob Cranston from Senior Grand Prix race winner Ethan Hourigan and James Higgins.

Brent Hickmott, meanwhile, proved the man to beat in ClubSport 120, winning four of his five heats to lead home the winner of the other heat, Braden Parsons and the consistent Brent Robinson in the day standings.

 

2015/16 Bayleys WPKA Goldstar Series Championship Sun June 05 2016 Championship round Todd Energy Raceway Waitara Taranaki Sun June 05 2016

Round Results:

125cc Rotax Max Light
1. Jacob Cranston; 2. Ethan Hourigan; 3. 3. James Higgins; 5. Jonathan Dwyer

125cc Rotax Max Heavy
1. Zach Zaloum; 2. Campbell Jamieson; 3. Ashley Higgins; 4. Jayden Smith; 5. Francois Rauterbach   

ClubSport 120
1. Brent Hickmott; 2. Braden Parsons; 3. Brent Robinson; 4. Garth Lacey; 5. Richard Krogh; 6. Roger Pepperell          

Formula Junior
1. Rianna O'Meara-Hunt; 2. Tom Greig; 3. Zac Stichbury; 4. Ronan Murphy; 5. Riley Jack; 6. Cameron Spargo                          

Vortex Mini ROK
1. Jackson Rooney; 2. Thomas Boniface; 3. Ryan Crombie; 4. Logan Smith; 5. Riley Spargo; 6. Zeal Jones.

Cadet ROK
1. Mason Potter; 2. Kaden Probst; 3.Ryan Bell; 4. Logan Manson; 5. Liam Sceats; 6. Hugo Neale

Rotax MAX Light winner Jacob Cranston
Above: Rotax MAX Light winner Jacob Cranston
pic - Fast Company/Vicky Jack

GPs

Senior GP
1. Ethan Hourigan; 2. Jacob Cranston; 3. James Higgins; 4. Jayden Smith; 5. Braden Parsons

Junior GP
1. Tom Greig; 2. Rianna O'Meara-Hunt; 3. Ronan Murphy; 4. Riley Jack; 5. Frank May; 6. Zac Stichbury

Vortex Mini ROK GP
1. Jackson Rooney; 2. Thomas Boniface; 3. Riley Spargo; 4. Ryan Crombie; 5. Logan Smith; 6. Louis Redshaw

Cadet ROK GP
1. Liam Sceats; 2. Mason Potter; 3. Logan Manson; 4. Kaden Probst; 5. Tom Bewley; 6. Ryan Bell

 


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