A beautiful crisp Friday morning greeted competitors for the inaugural Queensland Superkart Cup. Superkarts were first on track at 8:10am and it was amazing to see so many karts on track.
Darryl Bertram returned from the USA to help celebrate the club’s 50th Anniversary (he was the club’s first secretary in 1975). Arriving a little hot at Turn 6 in the first practice session, Darryl buried his SGM powered F1 chassis deep in the gravel.
Ewen Burg, after recent dyno work thanks to Coach Design, was hoping to get some valuable track time but tuning issues caused him a few setbacks. But by the third session he had the Anderson PVP combo singing, setting the fastest time of the day.
Doug Amiss laid down the early gauntlet in the highly competitive 125 National class in FP1 before working through the rest of his program in the following sessions. He could be a dark horse for the Pole Position award sponsored by Squadracorse Racegear.
Tim Weier had the Anderson GAS GAS combo flying in the third session, sorting understeer issues that troubled him in the second session. It’s going to be a straight fight between him and Gareth Crisp for Pole Position.
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Four Time Australian Champion Ilya Harpas is stepping out of his normal 250 International machine and into one of the Coach Design 125s this weekend. A couple of little gremlins and adjusting to the different engine and chassis combination has him looking to find a couple of seconds to bridge the gap to the fastest 125s
Kristen Stebbing made the trip up from Victoria and has already shown that he will be in the fight for the podium turning some quick laps finding the optimal line around the technical paperclip.
The pits were a hive of activity all day as everyone was trying to dial their machines in ready for qualifying first up at 7:55am Saturday morning. Everyone finished Friday happy with their progress and can’t wait to get stuck into racing tomorrow.
The track is fast and lap records could fall this weekend! With $500 up for grabs to anyone – thanks to Ultimate Steel Framing – who lowers their class lap record. The hot tip is for Russell Jamieson to lower his already impressive lap record in the 125 National class.
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