McIlveen Wins Rockpress Pacific Superkart Championship

from Mark Jones

Four starts and four wins was the tale of Warren McIlveen's victory in the 2009 Rockpress Pacific Superkart Challenge. Held at the Morgan Park Raceway round of the Shannons Nationals Motor Racing Championships, McIlveen's consistent speed was enough to keep Vince Lividitis behind for all four of the races, overcoming brake problems and a tyre shortage to claim the title for the third time.

Under the class based points system, outright second and third place in the Pacific Challenge was shared by the Traffic Management Systems Gladiator-Yamaha of Stewart Bell, who dominated the 85cc class throughout the weekend and the RFC Race Team Hypermax Phoenix of David McAdam, who similarly won all four races in the Rotax Max division.

McIlveen was fastest in every session, most of them lapping the Queensland circuit in under 60 seconds, but that makes the achievement seem easier than what it was. Lividitis drove faster than he's ever driven around the 2.1 kilometre layout, a recent trip to the Australian Championship event at Eastern Creek having helped his learning of his new Top Dog Advertising PVP and on several occasions Livaditis raced within touching distance of the radiator of McIlveen's Mac's Marine Stockman-Honda. Fighting over third place in the 250 International class for much of the weekend was hard between Russell Jamieson (Coach Design Stockman-Honda), Steve Murray (Gas Action Services PVP-Honda) and Jason Laker (1800 Bumper Stockman-Honda) but after Jamieson was penalised for a jump start yesterday and a fuel system failure sidelined Murray in Race 3 today saw Jason Laker claim third.

Winner of the 125cc class, recovering after an off track excursion to take three impressive wins today was the Giova Design Avoig-Honda of John Pellicano. Lapping consistently in the 65 second bracket Pellicano was the class of the most fiercely contested division of the weekend, relegating overnight class leader Brian Wild (N&G Motor Repairs/Iguana Signs & Concepts Stockman-Honda) to second position in the final points calculations. Third place in the 125s was claimed by the consistently quick Drene Jamieson (Coach Design Stockman-Honda).

Final points:
Warren McIlveen 2164, Stewart Bell 1844, David McAdam 1844, John Pellicano 1753, Vince Livaditis 1670, Brian Wild 1557, Drene Jamieson 1517, Lindsay Jamieson 1380, Todd Gardner 1380, Jason Laker 991, Phil Silcock 991, Russell Jamieson 910, Doug Amiss 777, Richard Flanagan 777, Barry Kunowski 746, Steve Murray 703, Cameron Hoswell 598, Jeremy Shelton 559, Phil Webb 191, Iain McIntosh 191

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