What a really really neat day Sunday was!!

Considering it nearly wasn’t.

It is an uncomfortable fact that our sport requires qualified people in certain areas for an event to happen - even just a lowly ole club day. Our qualified peoples are wearing thin.

We owe huge thanks to Maylene Robbie, trekking down from Whangarei at the crack of dawn and Bob Cunningham for both attending our club day as track officials and ensuring that the meeting went ahead. Stalwarts Don Hedges & Scott Sample made up the rest of the team as they so regularly do. Much appreciated and thank you.

We had enough numbers in Cadets to run the un-rated’s on their own. Brodie Cox took the day s win from Kayal Rohrlach, at his first ever race meeting, and Danjela Haigh.

Brad Wilson slipped in the first heat of Cadets & finished third; from then on he couldn’t be pegged back & won all the following heats. Brad took the days win from Nathan Reid and Alex Edwards.

Awesome close racing in the Junior Restricted class came from Bradley Hicks, Stephen Kelly and Aaron Wilson. Bradley & Aaron are also battling it out in the Top Half Series and it was Bradley winning on Sunday from Stephen and Aaron in third.

Jack Barker, recently moved into Junior Yamaha from JR looks like he’s coming to grips with the extra horsepower; Jack took the class win from Chris Donovan and Chad Elliston.

If the JR’s had close racing, the Formula Juniors were as good, if not a wee bit better.

Mitchell Pykett and Adam Davis had a couple of real close battles - & when they weren’t expecting it Jake Bonney poked his nose in too!! All clean & tidy and great to watch.

Mitchell took the days honours from Adam with Jake in third and Shaun Varney in fourth.

In Club Class this weekend we had our hallowed club treasurer return to track; the man was on fire!! And quick!! The regulars will be sending him back to the counting house to concentrate on the pennies. So, it was Scott Burkhart taking the win from Shaun Curran and Scott Maynard.

The pace was sort of on in Senior Yamaha Light and it was really on in Senior Yamaha Heavy. We had these two classes on track together. Give those heavies and inch - and they’ll pass all the lights who started in front of them!! Heard a wee rumour about pies….

Anyway, Todd Jolly - the club class burglar who needs to decide what class he’s gonna race - won Lights from Ben Covich and Nigel Kurtz. Jared MacKenzie won Heavy’s from Leyton Kendall and Brendon Smith.

Our Rotax Heavy class is just growing & growing. Thirteen ‘gentleman drivers’ on Sunday. The competition on the track was great. Anthony Murch won the day from Steve Cox and Cameron Dennis. But no-one could catch Albert Rohrlach, up from Hamilton for the weekend, in Rotax Light. Albert won the class from Travis Taylor and Garry Cullum.

Open Class also ran on Sunday; Thomas Parsons Taking the win from David Munro and Brett Hollander.

Results

Un-Rated Cadet

1. Brodie Cox 2. Kayal Rohrlach 3. Danjela Haigh 4. Joshua Hansen 5. Tegwyn McCormack 6. Adam Haigh

Cadet

1. Brad Wilson 2. Nathan Reid 3. Alex Edwards 4. Jacob Smith 5. Connor Westbury 6. Oscar Drummond

Junior Restricted

1. Bradley Hicks 2. Stephen Kelly 3. Aaron Wilson 4. Kaitlyn wonnacott 5. Luke Dobbs 6. David Anderson

Junior Yamaha

1. Jack Barker 2. Chris Donovan 3. Chad Elliston 4. Alec Cross

Formula Junior

1. Mitchell Pykett 2. Adam Davis 3. Jake Bonney 4. Shaun Varney 5. Daniel Connor 6. Shaun Morris

Club Class

1. Scott Burkhart 2. Shaun Curran 3. Scott Maynard 4. Todd McCormack 5. Stephen Loomes 6. Kevin Richards

Senior Yamaha Light

1. Todd Jolly 2. Ben Covich 3. Nigel Kurtz 4. Blair Holdom 5. Karl Greenland 6. Lara Greaves

Senior Yamaha Heavy

1. Jared MacKenzie 2. Leyton Kendall 3. Brendon Smith 4. Gerald Barlow 5. Colin Lewis 6. Patrick Hart

Senior Rotax Light

1. Albert Rohrlach 2. Travis Taylor 3. Garry Cullum 4. Brian Mathews 5. Josh Hookway 6. Sam Dyson

Senior Rotax Heavy

1 Anthony Murch 2. Steve Cox 3. Cameron Dennis 4. Kevin Wylie 5. Warren Parris 6. Michael Cullum

Senior Open

1. Thomas Parsons 2. David Munro 3. Brett Hollander

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Sunday also saw the running of the second round of the 2008 Shifter Series at Bay of Plenty. Our Auckland club has a strong contingent contesting the KZ2 class of this series.

AND THE BOYS CAME THROUGH!!

Ryan Grant - fastest qualifier. Graeme Smyth - second fastest qualifier.

Final - Ryan Grant - 1 st. Graeme Smyth- 2 nd. Jason Farmilo - 3 rd.

These placings duplicated in the Grand Prix.

WELL DONE & CONGRATULATIONS TO OUR KZ2 AUCKLAND CLUB REPS.

Our next meeting at Rosebank Domain is the 1st of June.

Some of our A and B rated drivers will be at the Bay of Plenty Citrus event and we wish them well. This is the last chance at club points prior to the mid year presentations.

Club Champs Prize Giving will be held at the Clubrooms on Saturday June 14 th.

This is a wonderful social event where you can all come out to the club without race suits and helmets!! Or towing that behemoth of a trailer…

This Prize Giving also incorporates our mid-year awards - Most Improved Drivers, Highest Points, Officials.

Plus a few ‘secret squirrel’ ones .

Dress up & come on out for a fun evening.