Brad Jenner has equalled the all-time round winner’s list in
the SP Tools Australian Kart Championship presented by Castrol by taking out
the X30 class on Sunday at Seymour’s Eastern Lions Kart Club; while Joshua Fife
extended his KZ2 Championship lead through a dominant round win.
Jenner secured his 12th total round victory, joining Troy
Loeskow at the top of the all time list.
It was a weekend without peer for the Victorian – who drives
for Nick Percat’s JND Racing squad – winning each race he entered, extending
his Championship lead.
Defending Australian Champion, Jace Matthews finished second
with Mika Lemasurier mounting a series comeback, finishing third after winning
KA3 Senior.
Fife – who entered the weekend leading the GoPro-supported
KZ2 category – extended his margin, winning all but one heat race – and took
the final by 2.368 seconds in his Kart Republic. In the 25-lap affair,
qualifying pole-sitter Dylan Guest slotted his BirelART in behind Fife on the
first lap – and despite the best efforts of Flatout Karts’ Australian Champion,
Sam Dicker to get by his fellow West Aussie, Guest was able to remain in
second, while Dicker was unable to remount the challenge. New Zealander, Nathan
Crang had his best finish in the AKC finishing in fourth.
In KA2 Junior, Lewis Cordato continued his good run from
Saturday taking the win after an enthralling final.
Round one winner, Kobe McInerney threw the challenge to
Cordato and headed his fellow Sydneysider for a period in the final, however
was unable to hold on at the back end of the race and crossed the line in
second for TF Racing. The other combatant in the final battle was Isaac McNeill
– who also spent time in the lead, but kept his Championship hopes alive with
the third placed finish.
Earlier in the day, Lemasurier started his Sunday afternoon
off with a solid win in the KA3 Senior final on debut. It was an experiment for
the BirelART Australia team to re-build confidence in the Gold Coast youngster
and it appeared to work as he skipped to a 1.1 second win.
He got to the line in front of fellow Queenslander, Dominic
Penman from CX-R Racing and Victorian Arrow driver, William Thompson. Perennial
Championship front-runner, Benito Montalbano had to fight hard to work his way
through the field to ultimately claim a fourth placed finish.
South Australian JND Racing KA3 Junior driver, Riley
Harrison usurped his team-mate and Championship leader, Jack Szewczuk to lead
home a South Australian and FA Kart quinella in front of Empire Kartsport’s
Isaac McNeill scoring a double podium.
It was one of the closest KA3 Junior finals in some time, at
one point with up to 12 drivers in the front-running fight.
Szewczuk had been on top during Saturday’s heat races and
was in the mix battling with the group – dropping as low as sixth at one point.
He fought back through and got himself into the top group and pushed through to
finish second.
Sam March, Jye Flynn and Championship leader leading into
the weekend, Noah Enright were among potential winners in the fight that saw
the top five covered by less than seven-tenths of a second.
Another South Australian double podium came in TaG 125 as
Jacob Dowson took victory by three-tenths of a second. Returning to the family
run MFK Racing outfit this year and making a switch to Arrow chassis is proving
a great choice for Dowson – who emerged yesterday as a front runner.
He took the win after a race long fight with defending
Australian Champion, Harrison Hoey, who brought the Australia #1 home in second
position and round one winner, Ben Holliday – the other South Australian in the
front-running battle who came home in third, holding off a late race charge
from Jackson Souslin-Harlow.
Jay Kostecki used all of the Supercars racing DNA from his
brothers and cousin to hold off a snarling pack in the Cadet 12 final. Multiple
drivers took turns at the front of the field, however it was Kostecki who got
to the lead and held on from Championship leader and dominant force from the
weekend, Archie Bristow.
Kostecki getting by Michael Quintiliani saw EKS’ Alaster
Flack try to take advantage. Unfortunately, Flack locked wheels with
Queenslander Quintiliani and unfortunately for the latter he spun out of
contention, Flack dropping to fifth.
This promoted Roman Krutil to third position.
In Cadet 9, trouble struck before drivers got to the
startline in the final. Championship fighter, Oliver Williamson’s kart expired
on the roll around lap, forcing the youngster to sit aside the racetrack and
watch on as a battle formed between Jarvis Hindle and Oliver Armitt.
Armitt was able to get through on Jarvis Hindle to cross the
line first by just 0.056 seconds, however a post race bodywork infringement
dropped the Championship leader two places to third.
It elevated Hindle to the win over Lukas Loeskow, mean time
Lex Kelly, the son of Supercars Champion, Rick grabbed his best AKC finish
after a challenging weekend in fourth.
The SP Tools Australian Kart Championship presented by
Castrol takes a break until the final weekend in May when it heads to Central
Queensland to race at Emerald Kart Club. The Series has the honour of debuting
the exciting track’s new world class lighting system and will race on Friday
and Saturday nights.
Full results from this weekend’s events are available here.
Championship points are available here.
On-demand vision of the event is available through mysportlive.tv
RESULTS:
KZ2:
1. Joshua Fife
2. Dylan Guest
3. Sam Dicker
KA2:
1. Lewis Cordato
2. Kobe McInerney
3. Isaac McNeill
X30:
1. Brad Jenner
2. Jace Matthews
3. Mika Lemasurier
TaG 125:
1. Jacob Dowson
2. Harrison Hoey
3. Ben Holliday
KA3 Senior:
1. Mika Lemasurier
2. Dominic Penman
3. William Thompson
KA3 Junior:
1. Riley Harrison
2. Jack Szewczuk
3. Isaac McNeill
Cadet 12:
1. Jay Kostecki
2. Archie Bristow
3. Roman Krutil
Cadet 9:
1. Jarvis Hindle
2. Lukas Loeskow
3. Oliver Armitt