Coming From All Over for City of Melbourne Titles
| 30 July 2015 |
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Karters are coming from Tasmania, South Australia, NSW and even New Zealand to contest this weekend's City of Melbourne Titles. Over 200 have already pre-entered for the 31st running of the event. Senior practice starts tomorrow (Friday). Two Kiwis will be competing in Melbourne thanks to prizes they received for winning back home.
Standard entries for the event closed on Monday, however late entries can be accepted at the discretion of the club for a $20 fee. See the Supp Regs HERE.
A couple of the Tasmanians will be staying on the mainland to contest the C&D Grade titles at Morwell the following weekend (entries are still being taken for that event - Supp Regs HERE).
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Tassie Karters hit the High Seas
A number of Tasmanian competitors will be traveling the high seas this week to take on the cream of the mainland drivers.
A host of drivers will be competing in this weekend's City of Melbourne title. Troy Stone has been following the national series in X30 will bolt on set SL6's and run TaG Heavy along with another Launceston Kart Club member Alastair Lee. Devonport's Ethan Wyllie will also make another trip across bass strait competing for Dave Sera in the Cadet 12 class.
A Trio of juniors from LKC will also take on the mainlanders with Tate Frost, Lachlan Dalton and Jackson Callow competing in Junior National, with Callow also running Junior Clubman. Youngster Jake Delphin will make his mainland debut in his Praga kart running Cadet 9.
Above: Jake Delphin (24) will be racing at Todd Rd this weekend
North West's Allan Sheahen is making the trip to compete in TaG Masters along with fellow CRG pilot Andrew Wagner who will be taking on the Tag Restricted heavy competitors. A couple of expat Tasmanians will be competing in TaG Light in Matthew Distill and Ben Walter.
The following week Brodey Lovett and Jake Delphin will compete in the Australasian C & D Grade Titles at the Gippsland Kart Club in country Victoria.
From Karting Tasmaina, good luck drivers and safe travels.
Above: General pic of Tassie pits at last years CoM
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GOLD STAR CLASS WINNERS IN MELBOURNE THIS WEEKEND
The winners of the Vortex ROK classes at the recent Bayley's WPKA Goldstar Series, Ryan Wood from Wellington and Louis Sharp from Christchurch, will be in Melbourne this weekend, taking up their prizes.
As part of a concerted effort to raise both the profile and prestige of the long-running, lower North Island-based inter-club kart Goldstar series, the organising club, the Wellington Provincial Karting Association, got together with sponsors in and outside of the industry to put together a package of awards and prizes that would put the series on the map.
Above: Ryan Woods
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As part of that drive Maurice Frost from Taranaki's Supreme Kart Services, Brendon Hart from Manawatu Toyota, and the WPKA put up entry to a major kart race meeting in Australia for the winners of the Cadet ROK and Vortex Mini ROK classes.
Those winners were diminutive Christchurch nine-year-old Louis Sharp (Cadet ROK), and 12-year-old Wellington driver Ryan Wood (Vortex Mini ROK).
This weekend they will contest the 31st annual City of Melbourne titles meeting at the Todd Rd circuit at Port Melbourne in Tony Kart karts.
Above: Louis Sharp gets fitted to a new chassis at Tony Kart Australia
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