Can’t Catch the Jordiemon!
| team press | 14 September 2016 |
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Jordan Ford continued his winning ways over the weekend, clean sweeping pole position and four dominant race wins in the second round of SKA’s National series at Phillip Island.
Fresh from his victory in the Festival of Superkarts three weeks earlier at the same venue, Ford extended his unbeaten run in the Nationals Series to 15 straight race wins. Ford’s factory Anderson Maverick superkart paid tribute to the current Pokemon craze with a one off ‘Gotta Catch Me!’ design that proved popular with kids and spectators at the track.
Mixed weather greeted the teams on Friday with niggling carburettor issues limiting Jordan’s times in the first wet practice session. The afternoons dry session however proved better with Ford quickest in the 250cc National class in dry conditions running sub 1.40 sec laps.
Saturday mornings qualifying session proved to be eventful with Ford pulling off at Honda corner on his second flying lap when a rear sprocket carrier failed, his first lap time though good enough for pole position, 2.5 secs faster than his nearest rival. Race 1 saw Ford show a clean set of heals and take a convincing victory, in the process regaining the championship lead he had lost at the previous Sydney Motorsport Park round when his trusty Yamaha YZ250 failed to fire for race 2 after crank sensor problems.
Sunday’s three races were again a Jordiemon show as Ford, now equipped with a new set of Dunlop tyres launched an inspired attack on his own lap record, coming close to resetting the mark in conditions that were not exactly lending themselves to fast times. Ultimately he fell just .12 of a second short in the blustery conditions.
This was the first time Jordan had an opportunity to run the locally developed DEM-DAU compound tyres on his British GP winning chassis with all boding well for some very fast times in the future with his Yamaha engine on song.
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The team will now split their resources in November with Ford running the final round of the series back at Sydney Motorsport Park, with the rest of the team competing at Phillip Island in the Victorian Superkart Championship on November 12 & 13th.
Current VSKC Driver of the Year Jarrod Sanfilippo and Dave Murphy head the Rotax Heavy entrants with Jason Akermanis making a surprise return to competition along with a yet to be confirmed UK driver to race for the 250 National title that Ford unfortunately will not be able to defend.
Williams Racing would like to thank their sponsors Burbank Homes, Slipstream Race Grafix, C4 Oils, Anderson Karts, Dunlop Kartsport, dk17.com.au, Sunbury Collision Centre, JMTF, RTA and Yamaha Australia for their ongoing support which is greatly appreciated.
