Team News: Makos Motorsports - BSRKC Round 3 Preview
July 5, 2007
Makos Motorsports returns to
action this weekend as both Julius and Matteus Makos are set to
contest the third round of the Brian Stewart Racing Karting
Championship at Kawartha Speedway. While both boys are excited to
get back to action, they enter the weekend in very different states.
Eleven-year-old Julius enters the third round
having won at Sutton last month and now sits very much in the
championship hunt. Adding to a fifth from the series opener, the win
brought Makos to 180 points, 28 clear of third and just five back of
the lead with four rounds remaining. At round two Julius qualified
on the front row and maintained the position in the prefinal before
scoring his first win of the year. He will be looking for much more
of the same beginning Friday, and this weekend will also add the
non-points Junior Medium class to his schedule.
Younger brother Matteus heads to Kawartha in a
very different state, as just days after recovering from a broken
right arm and having his cast removed to end the school year, he
broke his left in a bike crash during the Toronto Kart Club Canada
Cup race weekend! While the injury puts all two-stroke racing on
hold for the second time this season, Matteus will continue to run
four-stroke during his recovery period and he currently sits fourth
in the BSRKC Novice Championship. The eight-year-old racer was sixth
at the opener and finished fifth at the last round. This weekend he
will race both Cadet and Novice at Kawartha.
The team was also in action at the recent Cameron
Motorsports Barrie Grand Prix where Julius raced both F1-K 60cc and
Canada Junior Light. The weekend began well in Light after Makos
qualified a strong fourth in a field of fourteen, but all plans went
out the window when he was collected at the Tiffin Street hairpin
during the prefinal. A recovery charge then followed in the Sunday
main event where Julius bettered his qualifying time by a
half-second and climbed to fifth spot in the final order. The
rebounding run also allowed Makos to keep fifth in the SRFKC point
standings, just eight points out of second spot. F1-K was nowhere
near the fun as Julius was also collected at the hairpin in both
prefinal and main event.
Both boys are set for a full day of Friday
practice and the Friday night demonstration race before the racing
begins for real Saturday morning.
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