Photo Gallery - Victorian Open Championships

Photos from Todd Road, March 11-13, 2011. These and many more are available through AFimages. Report and results were posted earlier in the week.

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Above: Matt Wall leads this bunch in Clubman Heavy as Glenn Riddell (64) and Brad Fitch (33) clash.
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Above: Gippsland karter Nicholas Ellen scored the best result of his career so far, winning both weight divisions of Senior National. He had to fight all the way before taking a deserving victory in Light, whereas in Heavy, he simply drove away from the pack.
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Above: National Champ Lee Mitchener was 2nd in the Leopard Heavy final.
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Above: The Stig x2? Resplendent in their white race suits, Ben McKinlay (4) and Scott Simpson (23) on their way to a 1-2 in Clubman Super Heavy
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Above: AKA Media Man Lee Hanatschek digs in with the tyre distrubution after Melbourne's traffic delayed the arrival of the barcode scanner.
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Above: Aftermath - Clubman Light, turn 1. More of this in the next issue of KartX, which will be online this coming Monday!
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Above: James Sera drove an excellent Clubman Light final in the FA Kart, leading in the dry, then regaining the lead in the wet after a battle with cousin David.
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Above: Is Rick Pringle getting an earful from his mum Stella on the grid for Rotax Heavy?? His dad John, who grabbed 4th in Clubman Over 40s, stands behind.
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Above: Despite all the winning they do, the Arrow boys still love it when Deadly racks up another title. Darren Hossack congratules Dave Sera on winning Leopard Light
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Above: Michael Griffiths leads the Leopard Heavy pack. He won a heat and was 3rd in the final
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Above: Junior National Light, Liam McLellan and Jimmy Golding lead Jake Klein and Luke Marquis
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Above: The Sera boys lead Clubman Light onto the track
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Above: Lookin' for some cash from the Tooth Fairy! Midget driver Cooper Murray lost a tooth on the outgrid while getting ready for Sunday's carby session
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Above: Brendan Nelson was one of several 'double-up' winners, outclassing the field in Clubman Heavy and Rotax Heavy. In fact, the Arrow driver was undefeated in Rotax Heavy all weekend.
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Above: Not the right place for a CC Racing nosecone! Liam McLellan lost this (and subsequently DNFd) in the opening heat of JNL, but came back to win the final.
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Above: Joey Mawson, #1, Jnr Clubman
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Above: Wright Karts had an almost perfect debut, winning the Midget and Rookies classes with Jordan Caruso (right) and Reece Sidebottom respectively (and if it wasn't for Jimmy Golding's 0.006s defeat in JNL the English brand would have had 3 titles!). Here, Caruso is with fellow Wright driver Jacob Prestipino.
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Above: Luke Rochford (35) and David Sera, Rotax Light. Brad Jenner (94) would fill the podium in 3rd ahead of Josh deMaio (98)
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Above: Joseph Mawson (96) and Pierce Lehane, Jnr Rotax, ahead of Liam Morey (46), Chelsea Angelo (34), Michael Stewart (51), Liam McLellan (99) and Matthew McLellan (71)
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Above: This is the seat in Ash Quiddington's Senior National Light kart. SNH National Champion Aaron Johnstone decided to donate a signed souvineer!
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Above: JNL and JC racer, Thomas Randle
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Above: Ben McKinlay tosses his Tony Kart into a corner, CSH
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Above: Jordan Caruso leads the Midget field
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Above: Jnr National Light rollups - William Hawkes (94), Liam Marquis (34), Jake Klein (6), Mitch Wilson (64), Dimitri Agathos (66), Justin Black (91), James Golding (31), Justin Ford (22)
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Above: Midget battles, Dylan Hollis leads an off-track Jordan Caruos and Declan Fraser (12)
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Above: Rookie winner Reece Sidebottom leads Rhys Wooley, Cody Gillis, Thomas Schou, Isaac Vaccarella (92) and Jay Morrison. Wooley got to the front and looked like he had the final in the bag until an engine problem saw him dnf late in the race.
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Above: Brendan Nelson leads the Clubman Heavy charge - pole man Zeke Edwards (88), Lee Mitchener (hidden), Richard Muscat (22), Glenn Riddell (64, in the family's own Silhouette brand), Remo Luciani (hidden), Leigh Nicholaou (14) and James May (95). Unfortunately, Edwards and Mitchener came together on the next lap robbing spectators of what was surely going to be a great battle.
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