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Tasmanian Kart Championship

by Stuart Lee

24 November 2015

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2015 Hadspen Excavations Tasmanian Kart Championship, Launceston

The weather Gods delivered the sunshine and the drivers delivered the great racing action over three days of karting at the Launceston Kart Club.

The committee of the LKC had been hard at work for a number of months getting the venue spick and span for the championship and the weather added to a great weekend of racing. With the support of major sponsor Hadspen Excavation the Launceston Kart Club would like to thank all the competitors for making the 2015 Tasmanian Kart Championship the success that it was.

• full results are on KA CMS HERE

Race Report:

Cadet 9
Victorian Brodie Thomson took the win after a titanic battle with fellow Victorian Joseph Fawcett and Launceston duo Jake Delphin and Toby Callow. In the end a 10 second penalty handed to Fawcett for a mid-race incident relegated the youngster from first to fourth allowing Callow to grab the last spot on the podium.

Above: Havoc at the start of the Cadet 9 pre-final. That's Championship winner Brodie Thomson facing the wrong way! Joseph Fawcett (88) and Toby Callow (49) lead the way

Cadet 12
Emerson Harvey and Australia #1 Jay Hanson were the stand out drivers over the weekend with Harvey claiming qualifying honours but Hanson claiming wins in both heats and the pre-final. However, Harvey regained control in the final to claim the coveted blue plate from Hanson with Will Harper taking third in front of local gun Ethan Wyllie.

Junior National Light
Benito Montalbano lead all 61 laps of the championship to take out a commanding victory in JNL. Montalbano lead every lap of each race and was the class act of the weekend. In the final Jordan Caruso looked the best of the rest with Zac Crichton rounding out the podium.

Junior National Heavy
Benito Montalbano made it two from two with another commanding victory, this time in JNH. Winning all heats and the final Montalbano had at least a 3 tenth’s of a second advantage over his rivals on lap times and was rarely challenged. In the final Troy Alger and Benjamin D’Alia took second and third respectively ahead of local Jackson Callow.

Above: Benito Montalbano (69) sits on pole for the final of JNH, Troy Alger alongside

Junior Clubman
Perhaps the best class of the State Championship, Junior Clubman delivered some amazing racing over the weekend with local Launceston Kart Club member Tate Frost claiming his first State Championship. Frost took a clean sweep of heat wins and held off a fast finishing Zac Crichton in the final to claim the blue plate. Third was Angelo Mouzouris ahead of local Mitchell Kerrison.

Above: Tate Frost, Junior Clubman winner

Tas Sportsman National Pro
In some the best and cleanest racing of the weekend Johnah Slater, Alastair Lee, Gemma Wyllie and Johnathan Males all showed how close fast racing is done. In the Final, North Western Kart Club member Johnah Slater took the win ahead of Launceston duo Alastair Lee and Johnathan Males.

Above: Johnah Slater taking victory in Tas Sportsman National Pro ahead of Alastair Lee and Johnathan Males

National Masters
New South Welshman Peter O’Neil claimed another Tasmanian State Championship when he took a comanding victory in the final of National Masters. With the engine failure of the nearest competion of Johnathan Males, O’Neil won from Hobart pair, Scott Hildyard and Steve Crocker

Above: Johnathan Males leads eventual National Masters winner Peter O'Neil

Clubman Light
In one of the best finals of the championship, Victorian Simon Fallon was able to withstand the presure from the ACT’s Bec Connell to take victory in Clubman Light, the pair dicing corner after corner in the closing laps. Third was Burnie’s Shane Bray.

Clubman Heavy
Launceston Kart Club's Zane Wyatt claimed his seventh state title dominating Clubman Heavy. Wyatt was the fastest qualifier and won all heats and the final in a comanding fashion. Second was Hobart's Jonathan McDonald with Remo Luciani third.

TAG 125 Light
Victorian Bradley Marsh-Stepney was another driver to claim the hat trick of fastest qualifier winning all heats and the Final of TAG 125 Light. Hobart’s Brad Hobden had to fight all weekend and deserved the runners up spot on the podium, with Tabatha Badger third.

Above: TaG Light form up for a heat race, Bradley Marsh-Stepney (24) on pole alongside Jacob Sale (90)

TAG 125 Heavy
In what ended up as a “Bradbury” style win, Victorian Benjamin Walter claimed another Tasmanian State Championship when he was the last man standing in the final of TaG 125 Heavy. With a six kart train for the majority of the race the front three of Jamie Bricknell, Jake Rice and Walter all took turnes leading whilst Troy Stone, Dillon Van Galen and Alastair Lee followed waiting for the final 3 action packed laps to unfold. First to go was Lee with mechanical issues then Walter and Stone coming to gether with two laps remaining which left Rice leading into the final corners ahead of Bricknell and Van Galen, however all three got tangled up  within sight of the chequered flag, allowing Walter to criuse past to take the win! Behind Walter havoc was still unfolding with a recovering Van Galen and a fast finishing Joshua Hardy making heavy contact ending with Hardy into the finishing straight tyre wall. This allowed Rice to limp across the line in third.

X30 Light
Hobart’s Evan Livingston claimed his first state title when he greeted the chequered flag first in X30 Light. Pre race favorites Nathan Zuj, Jade Waddington and Zac Soutar all got together on lap 4 allowing Livingston to take over the lead and from there on was never headed. Brody Appleby was second and the recovering Soutar took the final spot on the podium.

National Masters: 1 Peter O'Neill (NSW), 2 Scott Hildyard (Tas), 3 Steve Crocker (Tas)
TaG 125 Heavy: 1 Ben Walter (Vic - was Tas!), 2 Dillon van Galen (Tas), 3 Jake Rice (Tas)
Clubman Light: 1 Simon Fallon (Vic), 2 Beck Connell (NSW), 3 Shane Bray (Tas)
TAS Sportsman (National): 1 Johnah Slater (Tas), 2 Alastair Lee (Tas), 3 Johnathan Males (Tas)
X30 Light: 1 Evan Livingston (Tas), 2 Brody Appleby (Tas), 3 Zac Soutar (Vic)
Clubman Heavy: 1 Zane Wyatt (Tas), 2 Johnathan McDonald (Tas), 3 Remo Luciani (Vic)
TaG 125 Light: 1 Bradley Marsh-Stepney (Vic), 2 Bradley Hobden (Tas), 3 Tabatha Badger (Tas)
Junior National Light: 1 Benito Montalbano (NSW), 2 Jordan Caruso (Vic), 3 Zac Crichton (NSW)
Cadet 9: 1 Brodie Thomson (Vis), 2 Jake Delphin (Tas), 3 Toby Callow (Tas)
Junior National Heavy: 1 Benito Montalbano (NSW), 2 Troy Alger (Vic), 3 Benjamin D'Alia (Vic)
Cadet 12: 1 Emerson Harvey (Vic), 2 Jay Hanson (Vic), 3 Will Harper (Vic)
Junior Clubman: 1 Tate Frost (Tas), 2 Zac Crichton (NSW), 3 Angelo Mouzouris (Vic)

The Launceston club advise a number of new lap records were set across the weekend:

• Cadet 9 - Brodie Thomson (VIC) 40.757
• Cadet 12 - Emerson Harvey (VIC) 39.415
• Junior National Light - Benito Montalbano (NSW) 37.998
• Junior National Heavy - Benito Montalbano (NSW) 38.639
• Clubman Light - Simon Fallon (VIC) 35.688
• Clubman Heavy - Zane Wyatt (TAS) 36.041

 

 

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