Whyalla Club Championship Round
Tweet| from Dave Camwell | 9 October 2012 |
Perfect weather for kart meeting
Perfect weather greeted the karters for the Whyalla Club Championship round 6 race meeting. Twenty drivers rolled up from Whyalla, Adelaide and Port Pirie to try and take out their respective class win and accumulate points to add to the 8 round series.
The day got under way in spectacular fashion, with 14 karters taking to the track. There was first corner mayhem with many drivers thinking they could win the race in the first few seconds, which of course claimed many drivers and side lined them for the remainder of the race.
Above: Aiden Sossa leading the Seniors pack in the first heat
After a quick additional drivers briefing from the chief steward, the day moved on to some good fast clean racing.
Five Cadets and one Rookie raced together hard and fast, with Levi Henderson being the only Rookie entered in the class, which did not stop him from showing how fast this young driver can drive; he easily blitzed the Cadet field and finished well ahead of the pack. The five Cadet drivers, aged between 7 and 10, raced a fantastic meeting, with Adelaide driver Troy Fortanier taking out the class. Tyler Craig is becoming a regular at our meetings and took out second, Aaron Oliver also from Adelaide took out the final podium step for third.
Fourteen senior drivers racing in 3 different divisions entertained the crowd, and other than the first race first corner incident, there was little contact between karts - although some drivers pushed themselves to their ultimate limit and consequently lost control of their race machines, the only damage being their pride.
Above: Rookie driver Levi Henderson 44 leading the Cadets field of Troy Fortanier 67, Tyler Craig 55, Aaron Oliver 70, Cooper Jones 31 and Amy Redjepi 17 (not pictured)
The track condition was perfect for racing and three track records were broken. Dennis Cumerlato smashed out a time of 26.275 seconds in Restricted 125 Light. Dave Camwell broke the track record in both directions of racing. In the normal race direction running in the Restricted 125 Heavy class, he set a time of 26.532 seconds and in reverse racing, a time of 26.489 seconds was scored. Ellen Shipard set a personal best time in Restricted 125 Light, 26.787 seconds in normal direction and 26.908 in reverse.
Allan Watt and Neil Schmidt opted to be officials to help run the meeting as our normal helpers for these positions could not attend. Many thanks to these two for not electing to race and give up their time to run the meeting!
Above: Dennis Cumerlato must have been taking it a little too easy, he appears to be having a little snooze, just before he crossed the finish line (eyes shut and head back). Nice one Mr President!
Once again, thanks must go out to Kerri Pitman, Frank Baker, Walter Sossa, Andy Leech, Jeff Redjepi, Melissa Stewart, Jessica and Carmen, for your help as officials and canteen staff.
Results from round 6 October 6th 2012 Sponsored by Natrad
Cadets
1st- Troy Fortanier- Adelaide
2nd- Tyler Craig- Adelaide
3rd- Aaron Oliver- Adelaide
Rookies
1st- Levi Henderson- Adelaide
Restricted 125/ Clubman Light
1st- Dennis Cumerlato- Whyalla
2nd- Brian Watt- Whyalla
3rd- Ellen Shipard- Whyalla
Above: Karl Lawson beating Jeremy Head through the canteen corner in reverse direction
Restricted 125/Clubman Heavy
1st- Dave Camwell- Whyalla
2nd- Paul Beaty- Whyalla
3rd Steve Oliver- Adelaide
Sportsman SA
1st- Darrol Jones- Whyalla
2nd- Brian Sampson- Whyalla
3rd- Karl Lawson- Adelaide
The Whyalla Kart Club will be hosting round 7 on Saturday November 3rd, racing starts at 1pm, FREE gate entry, hot food and drinks available at the canteen. Round 7 Proudly Sponsored by - JK Tuning Adelaide Go-Kart shop.
Above: Official Frank Baker manning the flag station with another new addition to the Club, the new electronic lap counter
Above: The pack of 44 Steve Oliver, 78 Dave Camwell, 29 Chris Reid, 32 Ellen Shipard all chasing down number 28 Brian Watt
