CAIRNS RACERS DOMINATE CHALLENGE
MORE than 50 competitors took to the track at the Towers Kart Racing Club on Saturday for the first round of the Twin City Challenge.
Club spokesman Alan Rowe said it was great to see so many competitors taking part in the event, which attracted entries from as far north as Cairns, south to Emerald and west to Mount Isa.
He said the club had run some smaller meetings since major repair work was undertaken following
Cyclone Yasi.
Rowe said it was good to see so many people, from the cadets aged seven years up to seniors, taking to the track.
Townsville’s Andrew de Courcey took out the 4SS Senior Medium class, with Cairns driver Seth Chellingworth taking out the KA3 Senior Lite and Mount Isa’s Thomas Glasson the KA3 Senior Medium.
The Tag 125 Restricted lite and medium classes were run as one, with Chellingworth again taking out the lites category and fellow Cairns driver Jordain Fegatilli victorious in the medium.
The KA3 and KA4 Junior Lite classes were won by Matthew Boylett of Cairns, while Townsville’s Tito Carey won the Cadets 12 and Charters Towers’ Hooper Urquhart won the Cadets 9.
Rowe said the meeting also presented an opportunity to acknowledge the work of two club members that was long overdue.
“At the presentation, Clem Archer and Peter Thomas were made life members of the club,” Rowe said. “That’s been a long time coming.
“Now that the club can return to racing full time.
“We’re at the stage now where the track is race ready and we can get out and do some things.”
More than $700 in prizes was given away on Saturday and now drivers will turn their attention to round two of the challenge in Cairns on Saturday.
There will be a massive prize pool of more than $3000 worth of cash and prizes to be given away.