WA Dirt Karting Titles
from Brian Chalmers, BCM Motorsports Marketing
Simple statement, the WA Dirt Kart Titles has been run & won here at the Busselton Kart Club this weekend & all I can say is WOW.
170 Dirt Kart racers made their way onto the track on Friday afternoon for practice & the first round of heats. 2011 was to be a different format for the AIDKA titles as in previous years they have not raced on the Friday, but this was an experiment for the 2011 Australian Dirt Kart Titles in Sept/Oct this year.
On Friday, the action was hot straight off the grids, with all 13 classes being represented well. As usual the KT fields were strong with 20 in each class as was the 200 Opens & 125 Lights & Heavies.
20+ visitors from the other side of the border made their way to compete in this event with many of them getting in early preparations for the upcoming Australian Titles later in 2011.
Winners on the weekend in the Junior Lights was Tim Ryan from the Dirt Trackers Kart Club, J Heavy Carl Aylett from Busselton & the first plate to venture over the WA border was in the J Open class for Jake Tranter from the Lucindale club in South Australia.
Moving into the KT classes, and in Lights is was again a South Australian in Jake Tranter making it two from two for the weekend; KT Mediums went to Ben Brown from the Angus club in SA; KT Heavy stayed home with local boy & current Australian champion Daniel Coleman again winning the KT heavy class, a class that his late brother won a few years back, and it was a fitting moment when Daniel dedicated his win to Budgie. In the ol' boys class, the Statesman’s, it was Mark Derosa again from the Busselton club.
The 125 Lights went the way of Jamie Thompson from the Dirt Trackers club in Perth & the 125 Heavy was won by Glen Chinnery front the Busselton club, a perfect wedding gift for his soon to be wife next week.
The open classes as usual were hard fought & tough on & off the track, the 100 Opens was won by another local boy in Daniel Keen & the 200 Opens won by Perth Jenna kart club member Luke Morton. In the Outlaws it was another going over the border to South Australia with Brook Alexander taking a convincing victory in that class.
From my point of view, the Busselton Kart Club came along way in a very short period & with an awesome committee they stood tall to run one of the biggest events of the weekend, to Radio West & Brownes Chill, thanks for the continued support and we look forward to bigger & better things in the future.
Top 6 in each class, WA Titles 2011 - Busselton Kart Club
J Lights:
1st Tim Ryan
2nd Taylor Ryan
3rd Kaiden Manders
4th Aaron Chalmers
5th Lee Austin
6th Daniel Carleton
Junior Heavy:
1st Carl Aylett
2nd AJ Nash
3rd Lee Aylett
4th Jarrin Beilby
5th Clayton Tilley
6th Jarrod Bevan
J Opens:
1st Jake Tranter
2nd Brent Hackett
3rd Dylan Janetti
4th Michael Keen
5th Katelyn Ettridge
6th Hannah Diblasi
KT Light:
1st Jake Tranter
2nd Holly Derosa
3rd Ryan Alexander
4th David Carruthers
5th Trent Alers
6th Ben Butcher
KT Medium:
1st Ben Brown
2nd Holly Derosa
3rd David Carruthers
4th John Thompson
5th Joel Ettridge
6th Adrian Haywood
KT Heavy:
1st Daniel Coleman
2nd Hayden Thorpe
3rd Dylan Bamford
4th Josh Dale
5th Chris Jones
6th Glen Chinnery
Statesmen’s:
1st Mark Derosa
2nd Neil Morrell
3rd Larry Maynard
4th Shane Austen
5th Greg Curtis
6th Danny Riekstins
125 Lights:
1st Jamie Thompson
2nd Cameron Mckenzie
3rd Luke Hughes
4th Brent Vosbergen
5th Brock Zonka
6th Bryden Chalmers
125 Heavy:
1st Glen Chinnery
2nd Joel Ettridge
3rd Robert Mavay
4th Brent Vosbergen
5th John O Malley
6th Brendon Wedge
100 Open:
1st Daniel Keen
2nd Jarrod Moore
3rd David Carruthers
4th Luke Jones
5th Brock Zonka
6th Bryden Chalmers
200 Open:
1st Luke Morton
2nd Mark Burford
3rd Matt Morton
4th Daniel Keen
5th John Thompson
6th Ben Brown
Outlaws:
1st Brooke Alexander
2nd Craig Nelson
3rd Robert Mavay
4th Brody Oorschot
5th Callan Oorschot
6th Terry Oorschot
