Brian Stewart Racing Karting Championship
Round #1 -- Sunday Report
May 18, 2008
While day one
of the Brian Stewart Racing Karting Championship saw a dreary day
work its way to beautiful sunshine, there was no repeat performance
on Sunday as a dark and dry morning was followed by steady rain
through prefinals and equally wet main events. All but the final
race of the day endured steady rain while on track as race one
presented by AtoZ Capital Corp. and MG Tires went into the books.
Saturday may have had better conditions, but the racing was better on Sunday and
two of the best were the first two classes in the rotation: Novice and Senior Heavy.
In the first
race of the day, Novice was equally thrilling as the youngsters in
the field battled the conditions as much as each other. Ayrton Drosi
took a dominant pole in dry conditions to begin the day where only
Devlin De Francesco timed within a second! Andre Fiorini clocked
third, Matteus Makos fourth and Matthew Scannell fifth. Just as in
other classes, the field circulated ten seconds slower in wet
conditions but the kid on top remained the same after the prefinal,
Drosi winning from Makos. Joshua Shantz worked his way to third,
Clay Van Eerd fourth, and Dean Reilly fifth.
Drosi led
from Makos, Reilly and De Francesco when the green flag waved in a
final that became an endurance run where ‘keeping it on the
island’ was priority one. Van Eerd looped his way around exiting
two on the second lap and De Francesco did the same coming around
Shed when he hit the track’s biggest puddle. A lap later on three,
Reilly went around at the same spot as Van Eerd but after a 360°
spin he rejoined and took third back before the lap was out! Drosi
continued to lead from Makos but all that was about to change.
Already catching lap traffic before half, Drosi went around in the
Shed’s standing water and Makos had the lead for the first time.
Drosi was now in chase mode running second, and after consecutive
passes in the left-hand entry to Shed De Francesco had worked his
way back to a podium position.
Drosi was haulin’ the mail as the field hit the closing
stages and Makos caught a break when a backmarker lodged between
them through the final turn. One lap later the white flag waved, but
Drosi was right back on the bumper early in the lap. The pair
survived yellow conditions and two spinners at grid before rounding
the tennis court and Drosi had his look at the final turn. He got
well inside Makos, but the dry line was no place to be in miserable
conditions and he was unable to maintain grip. Drosi went around,
and Makos matched his brother from a day earlier in winning the
first race of the day. They were so far clear, Drosi rejoined and
kept second place while De Francesco raced to third, Shantz fourth
and Reilly fifth. In the back half of the Novice top ten were:
Austin Rogers, Ryan Mohan, Fiorini, Brayn Moberg and Van Eerd.
The 2008
Brian Stewart Racing Karting Championship resumes in two weeks as
Point Pelee Karting and SunParlour Kart Club host all in Leamington,
Ontario.
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