Photos & News - Rotax Nationals

Above: Last corner, last lap, Sera gasses it off the final turn and runs out past the kerbing onto the grass. Price almost got ahead by the finish line. David Sera - "I was driving it in pretty hard all race and I could feel the rear tyre burning up because the back would snap under brakes. The last corner I knew I could hold it flat (to stop Price from getting underneath) and use the run off so he couldn’t beat me”
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Above: Jace Lindstrom pitches his Tony Kart into the infield section.
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Above: It was Father's Day and Sunday morning Kel Treseder and David Sera were snapped with their dads. Little did anyone know at the time, but those two dads were to get a great present from their sons later in the afternoon.
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Above: Turn One, Rotax Heavy final, and end of the road for several, including Luc Price (40), Ashley Pollard (88), Steve Johnston and Andrew Torville. Corey McCullagh (15) faces skywards but kept going for 7th. It was also a set back for Matt Greenbury (38) who was fast, but ran into further trouble while buried in the pack.
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Above: Jordan Nicolaou and Liam Morey had a great scrap in the Junior National support class. Nicolaou won the final with Morey, in his first Junior meet out of Rookies, a close second.
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Above: In the euphoria of victory celebration, Sera parked his kart and climbed the bank to greet his girlfriend
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Above & Below: Young Luigi Catanese (51) had done so well in the MBA kart and ran at the front all weekend after qualifying second. Unfortunately his final effectively ended at the first turn.
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Above: Mathew Hart (26) and Max Johnston (24) visit the grass, Junior Rotax preliminaries
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Above: Paul Mapperson was one of the fastest in Rotax Over 35s. Starting from the back in the pre-final, Mapperson got snookered by a lapped kart returning to the pits and spun out. Starting up the back again in the final, he was making impressive progress until running over the rear wheel of Steven Smythe, putting both out of the race.
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Above: Troy Woolston's 4th in the Rotax Light final earned him enough points to overhaul National Rotax Rankings leader Tom Williamson to win a slot at the World Final. Williamson had a shocker of a meeting. Unable to get up to speed, a last minute chassis switch (to a friend's spare CRG) didnt produce the speed he was hoping for in his last karting event (Tom is off racing Formula Ford next year with a new FF operation that an established race team is setting up)
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Above: Bart Price and David Sera prepare for the Sunday morning warmup. Bart and the Arrow boys now face a bit of a dilemma. As the company develops and tests chassis for their next release, Price, Sera and Matthew Wall were all competing aboard unpainted prototypes. All three karts were a different design and subsequently “all three karts used their tyres differently” commented Bart afterwards. Nevertheless, the trio ended up filling the Rotax Light podium. So, which one will get the tick of approval?
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Above: Runner-up place in Junior Rotax was an intense affair. Joshua DeMaio (88), Tyler Greenbury (6 - with front wheels off the gournd!), Chris Hays (97) and Ben Jurczak.
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Above: Aaron Rintoul's DD2 threw itself at the barriers when a rear wheel flew off after the studs broke. Starting last in the final, Rintoul charged up to 2nd.
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Above: Rotax Light podium - Price, Sera, Wall
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Above: "The Dom", Dominic Albanese, carded 2nd in Rotax Over 35s on his debut in the class. The F100 stalwart drove the One Kart chassis and got progressively better as the meeting went on.
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Above: Its another No.1! Treseder takes his Kosmic aross the line after a great performance and recovery from a DNS in the very first heat
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Above: Grrrrrrrr..izzly! It's all smiles for Junior winner Luke Rochford
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Above: Tyler Greenbury sweeps through the back straight corner
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Above: Rotax Heavy podium - Pringle (Rick), Treseder, Godsell
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Above: MOJO. Next year, the Junior Rotax class will also be on this rubber as it gains National Championship status for the first time.
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Above: A strong, consistent run from Canberra's Paul Hamilton netted 3rd in DD2
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Above: A capacity field of Lights form up
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Above: The front running drivers were presented to their karts and spectators by the Grizzly Power girls. Here, David Sera gets walked down the aisle...err, grid. Notice the rain clouds in the background? It started spitting rain not 5 minutes after the final concluded.
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Above: Mike Godsell (67) leads Rick Pringle and William Yarwood, Rotax Heavy. Yarwood had won everything up to the final, but simply couldnt hang on to Treseder in the final and fell into the clutches of the pack. Godsell was fast all weekend and charged from grid 12 to second.
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Above: The Over 35's class was hugely popular, here forming up for the final, Gerry Brooks on pole with Steven Willing alongside.
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Above: The Junior MAX drivers
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Above: The Rotax Light drivers
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Above: The Rotax Heavy drivers
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