A1 Engines Bendigo Golden Power Series Report
press release
Bendigo Kart Club held their 1st meeting since the revamp of the track. The weather played a big part in the weekend with Stewards calling the racing off on the Saturday afternoon due to torrential rain.
In the Rookies division Reece Sidebottom had a couple of difficult heats but in the final showed his superior driving skills to take an easy win. Tristan Gledhill and Shaun Costello also drove a good race on the weekend. Sarah Campbell finishing in 21st place.
Thomas Bennett and Nicholas Cardamone were out on the track dominating the heats in the Midgets class both on equal points for the final but it was Thomas Bennett who fell back to 7th on the start and worked his way to the front to take the win with Nicholas coming home in 3rd place. Adam Campbell came in position 21.
Above: Thomas Bennett
Junior National Light class saw James Golding prove that he is still the one to beat in the wet conditions. After dropping back in the field at the start James managed to climb his way back to 2nd position but unfortunately not enough laps to take the win. Jack Wicks and Dylan Johns also drove well.
Daniel Valentini showed the city slickers how to race on his home track taking out the Junior Clubman class in an excellent drive as well as also finishing in a solid 2nd place in the Junior National Heavy class with Thomas Allen finishing in 4th place and Gus Robbins in 15th.
Above: Daniel Valentini
In the Clubman Light class Tyler Cramer took a well deserved 2nd place with Shayla Golding showing some of the boys how to drive coming a solid 7th place, Nick Ellen, Chris Dodman and Justin Perry all had a great race. Mitch McLellan unfortunately had a couple of non finishes.
Joshua Franzi started on position 7 in the Final and managed to work his way to 2nd place with an excellent drive and Hayden Dodman and Glenn O'Brien finished a little behind.
Clubman Super Heavy saw Peter (pump man) Sloan show his dominance in the tricky conditions to claim 1st place with and outstanding drive while Dylan McLellan started good in Heat 1 but unfortunately had a DNF in the Final.
The Penrite Powered Machine of Ron Gaw had Pole Position for the Final. Ron was unable to take the win in the final but drove a great race to finish in 2nd place. Wayne Gilligan and Rod Campbell also drove well.
EVENT RESULTS
Rotax Over 40`s
1 Frank Falla
2 Ross Wilson
3 Lucas Burt
Midgets
1 Thomas Bennett
2 Thomas Hughes
3 Nicholas Cardamone
Rookies
1 Reece Sidebottom
2 Justin Ford
3 Cameron Boys
Junior Light
1 Bradley Jenner
2 James Golding
3 Liam LcLellan
Junior Heavy
1 Anton Pasquale
2 Daniel Valentini
3 Mathew McLellan
Junior Clubman
1 Daniel Valentini
2 Anton Pasquale
3 Jaden Wallis
Clubman Light
1 Mitchell Wilmot
2 Tyler Cramer
3 Andrew Carey
Clubman Heavy
1 Matthew Walker
2 Joshua Franzi
3 Richard Muscat
Clubman Super Heavy
1 Peter Sloan
2 Robert Pazarino
3 Jason Gibson
Clubman O40`s
1 Phillip Smith
2 Ronald Gaw
3 Ian Clusker
JMAX
1 Bradley Jenner
2 Anton Pasquale
3 Justin Francis
Rotax Pro
1 Brock Green
2 James Reynolds
3 Tim Holowell
Leopard Pro
1 Richard Muscat
2 Joshua King
3 Shane Alabaster
125 Restricted Pro
1 James Dean
2 Stephen Jabke
3 Aron Lawerence
