SA Festival State Cup - Round 2
| from Ian Williams | 5 June 2014 |
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Round 2 of the SA Festival State Cup series was held at the Monarto Karting Complex on Sunday June 1. The SA Open State Championships will be held at the Monarto Karting Complex in August and further improvements to the canteen and track facilities have been completed in readiness.
The morning dawned bright and sunny and with 150+ entries promised to be a long day. Sadly there were no entries for Clubman Light class at all, so it would not run, but both the Junior Clubman and Junior Max classes had strong fields so there would be high quality racing in both.
Above: Ben Delaney #3 leads the Junior National Light field into the first turn with eventual winner Tyson Harvey #13 biding his time
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It was national champion Josh Denton who led the way with a clean sweep of heat wins in both Junior Clubman and Junior Max. There was also a clean sweep for returning Andrew Cash to win Clubman Super Heavy.
The Cadets saw the usual large field led home by Blake Purdie, with Tyler Craig taking three seconds and almost slipping up with a tenth in the wet final. Michael Jones was consistent all day for 3rd and Troy Fortainer was fourth after a win in the first heat but a DNF in the second saw him slip down the grid and have to fight his way back.
The Rookies was also graced with a large field, Cooper Hay and Jack Hutchins sharing two heats wins apiece, to finish first and second overall with Connor Gowling taking a string of seconds for third outright.
Clubman Heavy saw a return to karting of Luke Marquis, racing against his father Sparky. It was a more consistent Josh Fielding with three second places and a win in the final taking the overall win from Sparky with Luke relegated to third.
Above: David Parkinson #22 leads Craig Henderson #3 and Troy Lymn #24 thru the infield in Clubman Over 40s
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Sparky backed it up in Clubman Over 40s for second on the day, his three second placings were outdone by Steve Blee’s three heat wins, with third overall falling to Super Heavy class driver Johny Ellis.
This year the TaG 125 Restricted Light and Heavy classes are included in the series points, so a strong entry in both saw some mixing of newcomers with returning experienced drivers. David Rinaldi won the Heavies from Steven Brown, a past Gokart Club of SA club champion from the1990s. Third was Hayden Slattery and fourth was the returning Blake Mooney, having missed out on his class running at the AKA Nationals he has taken up residence in TaG Restricted.
Above: The large pit area is now laid out better (this taken before the rain!)
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Overall Results
Junior National Light
1 Tyson Harvey
2 Jacob Dowson
3 Ben Delaney
4 Shane Moreland
5 Jordan Kervers
Restricted 125 Heavy
1 David Rinaldi
2 Steven Brown
3 Hayden Slattery
4 Blake Mooney
5 Michael Mangos
Clubman over 40’s
1 Stephen Blee
2 Sparky Marquis
3 John Ellis
4 Craig Henderson
5 Troy Lymn
Junior Max
1 Joshua Denton
2 Morgan Feast
3 Connor Farr
4 Josh Montagu
5 Conor Williams
Above: TaG Restricted Light with Keith Sampson leading the way
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TaG 125 Light
1 Benjamin Redjepi
2 Daniel Wallis
3 Joshua Manning
4 Jason Taylor
5 Max Carter
Clubman Heavy
1 Josh Fielding
2 Sparky Marquis
3 Luke Marquis
4 Dylan Hannam
5 Troy Lymn
Cadets
1 Blake Purdie
2 Tyler Craig
3 Michael Jones
4 Troy Fortainier
5 Bronson Boult
Junior National Heavy
1 Brodie Cook
2 Hamish Ribarits
3 Rylie Buik
4 Max Vidau
5 Taine Venables
Above: Junior National Light form up for a start with the pits, tower, canteen and the outgrid in the background
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Above: Out grid
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Restricted 125 Light
1 Daniel Boorman
2 Phil Sansom
3 Haydn Felici
4 Keaton Szach
5 Joshua Rust
Rookies
1 Cooper Hay
2 Jack Hutchins
3 Connor Gowling
4 Domenic Caminiti
5 Aidan Solomon
Junior Clubman
1 Josh Denton
2 Rylie Buik
3 Ben Delaney
4 Tyler Clare
Clubman Super Heavy
1 Andrew Cash
2 John Dankowski
3 Blake Mooney
4 John Ellis
5 James Georgiou
Tag 125 Heavy
1 Paul Pittam
2 Brandon Stillwell
3 Russel Provan
4 Luke Dillon
5 Michael Smith-Crossing
