Southern's Mid-Week Public Holiday Race Meet
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from Emma-Louise Lester
A mid-week race meeting, on a Public Holiday - surely that couldn’t work? And with temperatures in the high 30’s in the week leading up to the event, the club wondered whether the racing community might have chosen the beach instead of the race track.
Above: Rookies roll-up for a race start
However with 90 entries, Southern Go Kart Club believes that its curtain raising race meeting of the year was a great success.
With a class of 20 Cadets lining up on the out grid there was bound to be some hard racing. Jack Hutchins, Jackson Rees and Amee Blair certainly put the pressure on Jason Bowyer throughout the day. Jason took the days win with only 2 points separating 1st place to 3rd place.
Cadets – 1st Jason Bowyer, 2nd Jack Hutchins, 3rd Jackson Rees, 4th Amee Blair
Above: Cadets go racing in their opening heat race
Clubman Heavy and Clubman Over 40’s lined up on the grid together. The over 40’s certainly fought a hard battle all day with David Thompson and Steve Blee fighting it out. Blee took out the first two heats of the day over Thompson but not to be out done Thompson clambered back and came home strong in first place for the 3rd & 4th heats. The end result was a tie with a count back to the qualifying times that saw Thompson out qualify Blee by 0:02.110 of a second and to take the 1st place trophy.
Clubman Heavy – 1st David Thompson, 2nd Steve Blee, 3rd Mark Goode
Above: Mark Goode leads the field, Over 40s
Joshua Denton fought off a strong field of 14 rookies all day finishing the first three heats in 1st place only to have a mechanical failure in the final heat and a DNF, allowing Brodie Cook who was celebrating his first time on the front row to take out the overall first place for the day.
Rookies - 1st Brodie Cook, 2nd Jordan Pianezzola, 3rd Joshua Denton, 4th Ben Delany
In Junior National Light Tyler Morrison was the overall winner taking out 3 of the 4 heats in first place
Junior National Light – 1st Tyler Morrison, 2nd Jordan Murphy, 3rd Jackson Freer
Sportsman 125 Light – 1st Ryan Alexander, 2nd David Harradine, 3rd Daniel Smith
Restricted 125 Light – 1st Ben Considine, Daniel Boorman, Matthew Adam
Sportsman SA – 1st Matt Mahar, Matthew Zubrinich, 3rd Grant Edwards
Sportsman 125 Heavy – 1st Domenico Pascale, 2nd Gary Owen, 3rd Tony Fathers
Club President Jim Lester would like to thank the SA racing community for supporting The Australia Day Classic.