Due to the track being unavailable at our Rosebank Domain complex Auckland Club, relocated for our first club day of 2010 to Mt Wellington club’s track on Tainui Rd. Our thanks go out to the Mt Welly club for making their facilities available to us for the weekend.

For many of us it was the first chance of catch up with karting friends since Christmas; such a LONG time ago, it seemed. But, the day was fine & clear & racing hard & fast so a pretty good day was had by all.

A sign that the sport & our club is still growing was the fact that UnRated Cadets ran on their own on Sunday; enough of them to make their own class. Connor Sheehan took the honours from Jack Proctor & Sam Wright – pretty sure we’ll see these youngsters without their X-Plates in the very near future.

A top class of Cadets took to the track & provided some very exciting & entertaining racing. Lachlan Smith, coming off a challenging CIK campaign, was the mover & shaker in this class with an ‘all but’ clean sweep. Conceding just one heat win to Sebastian Bainbridge, Lachlan took the overall honours from Sebastian with Alex Edwards in third.

Awesome field of JR’s on Sunday; but Logan Roger-Jenkins pretty much had the measure of the competition taking the days win from Joe Ganley & Kaitlyn Wonnacott.

Formula Junior & Junior Yamaha were on track together; Formula J saw a great battle between Aaron Wilson & Emilee Wright, with Aaron prevailing by just one point overall from Emilee with Jonathon Buxeda in third. Kaleb Currie won Junior Yamaha convincingly from Nicholas Carpenter and Joel Herbert.

All the Senior Yamaha’s ran together on the track, and it was a great welcome back to Scott Sample in Lights with four from four in the heats. Scott feeling the pinch in lots of out of practice muscles & choosing not to run the final, but taking the overall win anyway from Nigel Kurtz & Bruce Reid. Club Class honors went to Todd McCormack from Peter Stacey & Scott Glenn.

Some close racing in Rotax Light saw Sean Sparg take a narrow overall victory from Dion Hubers & Nigel Lucas.

Rotax Heavy ‘Man On Fire’ was Mark Dixon; his secret breakfast should be patented later this year. Mark took the class win from Craig Finnemore & Colin Lewis.

Results

UnRated Cadet

1. Connor Sheehan 2. Jack Proctor 3. Sam Wright 4. Elsie-Jane Henry 5. Leo Ganley 6. Bailey Cox

Cadet

1. Lachlan Smith 2. Sebastian Bainbridge 3. Alex Edwards 4. Brodie Cox

5. Connor Wilson 6. Lee Zeltwanger

Junior Restricted

1. Logan Rogers-Jenkins 2. Joe Ganley 3. Kaitlyn wonnacott 4. Arran Crighton

5. Jacob Smith 6. Dion Pitt

Junior Yamaha

1. Kaleb Currie 2. Nicholas Carpenter 3. Joel Herbert 4. Luke Dobbs 5. Callum McDonald 6. Alec Cross

Formula Junior

1. Aaron Wilson 2. Emilee Wright 3. Jonathon Buxeda 4. Samuel Carpenter

Club Class

1. Todd McCormack 2. Peter Stacey 3. Scott Glenn 4. Matthew Randell 5.Dave Beer

Senior Yamaha Light

1. Scott Sample 2. Nigel Kurtz 3. Bruce Reid 4. Heather Comer 5. James Wood

6. Shaun Curran

Senior Yamaha Heavy

1. Adam Davis

Senior Rotax Light

1. Sean Sparg 2. Dion Hubers 3. Nigel Lucas 4. Michael Bird 5. Samantha Lewis 6. Jack Rainbow

Senior Rotax Heavy

1. Mark Dixon 2. Craig Finnemore 3. Colin Lewis 4. Grant Benge 5. Ben Coombe 6. Hans Ruiterman

Senior Open

1. Trey Hopkinson

Next Club Day is March 21 st – Totally dependent on you, the club members, to pitch in to help get the Rosebank complex ready for racing.

So mark the working bee date on your calendar and put aside just a few hours to give to your club.

The Top Half Series entry forms are now available - this series kicks off on March 14 th at Hamilton. The Top Half Series is awesome racing and a lot fun. Held at four different tracks it’s a chance to gain experience on different circuits as well as flying the flag for our awesome Auckland Club. Can you help bring the Top Half Champion Club trophy back to our clubrooms?????

Next weekend – March 6 th/7 th sees some of our club members travelling to Tokoroa for rounds of both the Shifters Pro-Kart Series & the Rotax Max Challenge. We wish you all well in your endeavours.