6 September 2014 |
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Last night's opening heat was probably the most important preliminary race for the teams as it will be the only one raced in similar conditions to tonight's finals. There are some big names struggling for pace in super competitive fields, and it's likely there will be a bunch of new faces crowned champion later today.
Here's a small selection of photos from Friday...
Above: It was sunny all day, but a qualifying group of Junior MAX encountered some spits of rain late in the afternoon
pic - Mark Wicks, KartSportNews
Above: Gordon Cooper of Coopers Photography gets the International drivers (mostly Kiwis!) organised for a photo session. Some Cooper's pics from the event are on Facebook HERE
pic - Mark Wicks, KartSportNews
Above: Two-time World Champion Bas Lammers and Clerk of Course Graeme Monds. The Dutchman was silky smooth yesterday and easily won the DD2 heat
pic - Mark Wicks, KartSportNews
Above: Special "17x National Champion" graphics for David Sera. Deadly's got some tough work today if he's going to add to that tally this weekend
pic - Mark Wicks, KartSportNews
Above: Jayden Ojeda, Junior MAX
pic - Mark Wicks, KartSportNews
Above: KartSportNews is sponsoring the Rotax Light class
pic - Mark Wicks, KartSportNews
Above: The (really shiny) CRG truck is just one of many impressive trucks and trailers filling the pit area at Ipswich
pic - Mark Wicks, KartSportNews
Above: Ipswich has kart retrieval sorted - no need for pit crews to go and pick up karts. This is Andrew Carey's machine after shedding a rear wheel in Rotax Light
pic - Mark Wicks, KartSportNews
Above: The Praga team change chassis after accident damage
pic - Mark Wicks, KartSportNews
Above: CRG had Regan Payne's kart on their chassis jig after he got wiped out in the opening heat of Rotax Light
pic - Mark Wicks, KartSportNews
Above: Axle clamp and reference datum
pic - Mark Wicks, KartSportNews
pic - Mark Wicks, KartSportNews
Above: Sam Houston, Rotax Heavy
pic - Mark Wicks, KartSportNews
Above: Kickin' back...
pic - Mark Wicks, KartSportNews
Above: Rick Pringle, Rotax Heavy
pic - Mark Wicks, KartSportNews
Above: Callum Walker, Jnr MAX
pic - Mark Wicks, KartSportNews