Taswegians To Take On Mainlanders
| by Stuart Lee | 8 August 2016 |
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A plethora of Tasmanian Karters head to the sporting capital of Australia this weekend to compete in the 32nd City of Melbourne Titles held at the Go Kart Club of Victoria's Todd Road complex.
Over the years many Tasmanians have considered this the mainland event to take part in and this year is no exception with no less than 20 Taswegians making the journey to test their skills against their mainland counterparts.
Above: #99 Darcy Whelan will compete on the mainland for the first time at this weekend's City of Melbourne Titles
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A number of these will be competing on the mainland for the first time including a trio of Cadet 9 drivers in Launceston's Toby Callow, Hobart pair Xavier Renshaw and Darcy Whelan.
Darcy's older brother Campbell will compete in Cadet 12 and are both are on a high after taking all before them at home this year and leading their respective classes in the statewide series. Jesse Keeling (Cadet 12) from the Southern Tasmanian Kart Club has experienced the tough mainland competition before and will know that this is a big step up.
Launceston's Tyson Phegan, competing in the KA4 Junior Light class, also heads to the big smoke for the first time and will gain valuable experience in racing against some of the best karters in Australia, one of which will be Westbury's Tate Frost who has been at the pointy end of the KA4 field at the national series this year.
Above: #6 Tyson Phegan
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Kiana Toon represents the Launceston Kart Club in KA4 Junior Heavy and will be out to show the boys the way.
Lochie Dalton, who has been competing in the national series with the AWC Motorsport Academy, moves up to KA3 Junior for this meeting and could be a dark horse come the final, after taking the win in this class at the Clubman Cup meeting at the Launceston Kart Club earlier in the year.
Above: #57 Sam Jackson
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In the senior classes Troy Stone returns for another crack at the TaG 125 Heavy title after claiming 3rd last year. He will be joined by expat Tasmanian Ben Walter.
TaG 125 Light sees a number of locals make the trip with Zane Wyatt. Brad Hobden, Matthew Distill, Adam Garwood and Sam Jackson all keen to take on a stella field.
Above: Bradley Hobden
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In the KA3 classes, Johnathan Males takes on the Masters whilst Jonathan McDonald makes the journey to compete in KA3 Heavy along with Wyatt who will doing double duties on the weekend.
Young Launceston Kart Club member Ryan Jenkins is dipping his toe in the mainland competition for the first time in TaG Restricted Light and is full of confidence after claiming the win last time out.
Above: #17 Ryan Jenkins
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Shane Toon rounds out the Tasmanian contingent in TaG Restricted Super Heavy.
Karting Tasmania wishes all competitors a safe journey and good luck for their racing on the weekend.
Above: Xavier Renshaw
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Above: Johnathan Males
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Above: Tate Frost
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Above: Jesse Keeling
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Above: Toby Callow
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