City of Sydney Goes Off! – KartSportNews

from Kev ‘The Noise’ Davies

The sun has set on an amazing race weekend at the 2024 City of Sydney Titles! It was my first time at the Sydney Illawarra Kart Club and I have to say it looks magnificent!

Talking of magnificent… the racing! The venue! The volunteers that made it run like clockwork! The Teams Challenge entries who made a memorable tribute to the late Max Laybutt!

With so so many highlights in a single weekend, it’s hard to capture in one race report. But without singling out any class, every one of them had some awesome racing which kept everyone on their feet or or sat down in the fancy looking refurbished grand stand. Even the resident kangaroo came for a look Saturday morning! I may be a little biased, but the Retro boys really did put on a show.

Drivers from all up and down the east coast turned up with an entry list of 225 and $21,000 in prizes thanks to the sponsors. 2025 could be bigger, better, faster – watch this space as it may also be noisier!

The City of Sydney Titles was an Oran Park Race meeting which Anthony Borg raced for many years. When Oran Park died, so did the meeting. It was Max Laybutt who asked Anthony to bring it back to life at the Sydney Illawarra Kart Club – which he did! Sadly, we lost Max in August last year. This year, Anthony went all out and created the Max Laybutt Teams Challenge. He worked non-stop on this meeting for the last six months, because he wanted to honour the great man. We hope he is proud.