from Dave Camwell
Whyalla Festival State Cup Round 1 has been run and won.
- full results on speedhive HERE
Firstly, congratulations to the Club in holding this event. Without the hard work from the committee and its members the event could never happen and I am sure that all attending appreciated the work that went into the preparation and running of the meeting.
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As always thankyou to the volunteers, the officials and canteen staff. Without their time and effort, again we could not run such a great event which is part of the 5 round series and the only Country round.
With 80 drivers contesting, and most of them practicing the day before, the track appeared to rubber up beautifully and with 7 hrs of practice, I think everyone had their fair share of track time.
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Come Sunday’s qualifying the pace on was, however the track seemed to drop off 3-4 tenths of a second from when it was a brand new surface 18 month ago.
There were some fantastic times logged never the less, but no track records broken that we are aware of.
The meeting also attracted 8 “P” Plate drivers and well done to them for taking on such a great series and we look forward to them improving their skills and ditching the “P” plates during the year. Good luck guys and girls.
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Round 2 will be held at the Southern Kart Club at the Bolivar circuit on 27th April 2019.
We are sure there will be a bigger turn out of drivers for round 2, and future rounds as the word spreads, the series will become what it used to be a few years back.
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Series point results (all point count)
Cadet
1st- Mitchell Burgemeister
2nd- Dominic Mercuri
3rd- Lucinda Jones
4th- Tyler Clarke
5th Massimo Calabro
TaG Heavy
1st Paul Pittam
2nd- Blake Mooney
3rd- Ben Edwards
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KA3 Senior Light
1st- Nikki Watson
2nd- Callum Fry
3rd- Ryan Morgan
Cadet 12
1st- Anthony Capobianco
2nd- Darcy Heyne
3rd- Ben Holliday
4th- Rock Han
5th- Annalise Ellis
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TaG 125 Restricted Light
1st- Ryan Morgan
2nd- James Boden
3rd- Simon Major
4th- Neil Schmidt
5th Dylan Hewson
KA4 Junior Light
1st- Christian Cowie
2nd- Michael Tarbotton
3rd- Jai Hillock
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TaG Light
1st- Nicholas Holmes-Karavas
2nd- Joshua Denton
3rd- Ben Floyd
TaG 125 Restricted Medium
1st- Daniel Boorman
2nd John Ellis
3rd- Brian Sampson
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4SS Senior Medium
1st- Thomas Fritz
2nd- Daniel Bowden
3rd- Samuel Miettunen
The winners of the free tyre draws are:
- Cadets– Anthony Capobianco
- Juniors– Liam McCourt
- Seniors– Daniel Albuino
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Thank you to all our Sponsors, we cannot thrive without your generosity.
Happy Karting!
Whyalla Kart Club
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