Supercars Showdown

by Russell Innes

Ipswich Kart Club hosted the “Supercars Showdown” on Friday evening the 8th of August with Cadet 12, KA3 Junior (Championship weight) TAG Restricted Light and TAG (Championship weight) the four invited classes running. It was a short, sharp, race meeting which those who entered enjoyed very much.

• full results on Speedhive HERE

With some generous support from Supercars and some of the Supercars teams, lots of random draw prizes were given away across the evening, including General Admission passes to the Supercars for the Saturday and Sunday down at Queensland Raceway and Grid Walks and Garage Tours across the weekend. The big prize was hot laps with Super 2 racer Cameron McLeod on the following Monday and Brent Reading was the big winner of that prize.

Jack Munro won Heat 1 in TAG Restricted Light ahead of Luke Trost, but Trost reversed the result in Heat 2 with a comfortable win from Munro, with Ryan Reid 3rd in both Heats. The Final was a fantastic race with Trost leading early from Munro these two well clear of Reid. Munro took over the lead on Lap 8 but Trost regained the front spot on the next lap and held on from all the challenges from Munro till the end of the 14 laps. Reid was a lonely 3rd, from Cody Scott and Thomas Williams.

Felix Sim had a night of domination in Cadet 12 winning both Heats by comfortable margins and then having a massive 6.5 seconds win in the Final. Behind him though was some great battles between Riccardo Johnston, Frankie Majorek and Jeremy Broadbent for the podium placings across the Heats and the Final. Johnston eventually finishing 2nd in the Final a fraction ahead of Majorek with Broadbent very close behind. Olivia Walton had her best ever drive at Ipswich with a 5th place in the Final.

Brent Reading had a fantastic night in TAG, winning both Heats and the Final convincingly and also winning the Hot Laps in a Super 2 prize. He led home Josh Dagg and Jordi Slater in Heat 1. Sebastian Simonelli and Louis Brown followed Reading home in Heat 2. Brown had his best race since going to Seniors in the Final finishing in 2nd place behind Reading, with Simonelli grabbing 3rd.

As usual KA3 Junior put on some amazing racing, with Jett Saraghi leading home Monty Jamieson and Jye Flynn in Heat 1. Josh Williams had a great Heat 2 win from Jamieson and Tyson McGill. In the Final it was a thrilling race long battle between Saraghi and Flynn. Saraghi led the early laps before Flynn took the lead on lap 11, but Saraghi retook the lead on the Final Lap for a very narrow win. Jamieson got the best of the battle for 3rd finishing ahead of McGill and Vincent Ter Horst who had a great result considering he failed to qualify and had to come through the field in the Heats and Final.

The next race meeting at Ipswich Kart Club on Saturday the 30th of August will be Round 6 of the Club Championship, the Castledine Challenge and this race meeting will be on the Track K Clockwise configuration. Track K is always used at the end of the year Capri Cup event, but in an Anti Clockwise direction. This will be the first ever event using the Clockwise direction.

Entries will open on Monday night the 18th of August and the track will be reconfigured for everyone to practice on this configuration from Wednesday night the 20th of August. This Round will also feature the “Maxxis Tyres Cadet P Plate” Class with many new Cadets having their first race meeting and will be in the random draw for sets of Cadet Tyres supplied by Maxxis Tyres and Karting Australia.