Our first Club Day for 2007 saw another weekend of awesome weather. It was so hot that a group of members hunted out the dummy grid sails and had them up in record time to provide some respite for the drivers waiting to hit the track and also for pit gate officiando Merv.

The Cadet class saw Girls Rule!! Kaitlyn Wonnacott & Aimee Rutherford showed the boys a clean pair of heels in taking out 1 st & 2 nd places overall. Connor Adams, having his very first club day, went really well; although he will have to set the alarm clock for a little earlier on our next race day!!

The boys turned the tables on the girls in Junior Restricted with the top 3 placings going to Oliver Pykett, Shaun Grocock & Zane O’Gara. Oliver had a clean sweep with five wins from five starts.

Junior Yamaha was a mixture of old hands and new faces. It was great to see drivers from close neighbour Mt Wellington and not quite so close Whangarei clubs. Hope you enjoyed your day, lads, and we’ll see you again. Henry Thomas-Kircher won the day by just one point from Adam Davis and Michael Hurliman, running from ROF, finished in third.

Tim Vickers won Formula Junior, but Declan Hull had the biggest grin. These two battled all day and the driving standard was exceptional. Mason Armstrong took third place and Scott Reddish, recently returned to the karting scene, finished in fourth.

Club Class saw Shaun Curran’s consistency see him take the overall win from Garry Cullum who was as consistent as Shaun, just mostly behind him.

Senior Yamaha Lights & Heavys ran together on the track, which made for interesting racing when the quicker heavies caught up with the lights. Got a bit confusing in Race Control with two number twelves that looked awfully alike but they got over it! The Kendall Boyz took 1 st & 2 nd in heavies and Ryan Ashwood – first race day in seniors – took out the lights from Karl Greenland.

Kendall was the front name again in Senior Rotax with Dion taking the days overall win from Grant Wilson and Dion Hubers. Judging by the chat amongst the drivers in this class after racing had finished they all had a ball but it was Kevin Wylie who provided the most entertainment with his trek up the bank at Death Valley. Kevin assures us that he can still get more air!

Graeme Smyth, the youngest driver in the class, took out Senior Open from Jason Farmilo & Andrew Hall and Thomas Parsons had a much better day on the track than he had at City of Sails.

Results

Cadet

1. Kaitlyn Wonnacott 2. Aimee Rutherford 3. Rhys Tinney 4. Jack Barker 5. Richard McCarthy 6. Connor Adams

Junior Restricted

1. Oliver Pykett 2. Shaun Grocock 3. Zane O’Gara 4. Rebecca Tinney

5. Samantha Lewis

Junior Yamaha

1. Henry Thomas-Kircher 2. Adam Davis 3. Michael Huliman 4. Thomas Hughes 5. Joseph Church 6. Lachlan Russell

Formula Junior

1. Tim Vickers 2. Declan Hull 3. Mason Armstrong 4. Scott Reddish 5. Michael Bird 6. Mitchell Pykett

Club Class

1. Shaun Curran 2. Garry Cullum 3. Colin Lewis 4. David Turpin 5. Dave Curtin 6. Craig Hatfull

Senior Yamaha Light

1. Ryan Ashwood 2. Karl Greenland 3. Michael Boyle 4. Ben Covich 5. Heather Comer

Senior Yamaha Heavy

1. Leyton Kendall 2. Dion Kendall 3. Nic Toswill 4. Ben Halliday 5. Mike Jeffrey

Senior Rotax

1. Dion Kendall 2. Grant Wilson 3. Dion Hubers 4. Leo Bult 5. Warren Parris 6. Kevin Wylie

Senior Open

1. Graeme Smyth 2. Jason Farmilo 3. Andrew Hall 4. Greg Helleur 5. Thomas Parsons 6. Shaun Wotherspoon

Next weekend, February 24 th/25 th, a contingent of the club’s KZ2 and 125S drivers are heading to BOP for the first round of the 125 Shifter Series. March 3 rd sees our Rotax lads contesting the second round of the Challenge in Tokoroa. Our next club day is March 11 th – the day after the first round of Top Half in Tokoroa on Saturday night.

Auckland is the defending Top Half Club Champion so for those of you with B or A licence ratings who want to experience some top competition and be a part of representing your club this is the series to do.