Perfect weather and brisk racing highlighted the third round of the 2016 Western Cape Karting Championship at Killarney on Saturday, with some interesting upsets as well as a few expected results among the day’s highlights.
Dario Busi (Automan Birel) bounced back form a controversial Cape national in April to take overall honours away from the expected frontrunners with a couple of wins – his first in the high school Rotax Junior Max 125 class. Busi won the opening races ahead of Jason Coetzee (RKT Kosmic) Sebastian Boyd (Boyd Freight Kosmic), Andrew Rackstraw (Tony), Daniel Duminy (Kosmic) and Aidan Strydom (TurboTech CRG) in race 1 and from Sam Lockhoff (Kosmic), Rackstraw, Coetzee, JP Hamman (Kosmic), Coetzee and Strydom in race 2. Coetzee bounced back to take the finale from Boyd, Busi, Duminy, Hamman and Strydom.
The primary school Maxterino 60s delivered their usual fireworks as Charl Visser (Battery Energy Zanardi) put two wins over principal rival class and Joseph Oelz (Zanardi) to take the day, but Troy Dolinschek (Makita Kosmic) was the star of the day as he took a third, a second and his first win in the class in the finale to end up a close second overall and ahead of Oelz. Tate Bishop (Kosmic) also impressed with a second and a couple of fourths to take fourth for the day ahead of another tight tussle between Kai van Zyl, Kyle Visser and Jason Macbeth.
The little under-8 Cadet class kids saw Paul Malcolm dominate, winning the first two races from Reza Levy (Jive) and the third from Reese Koorzen while Levy, Mischca Williams and Joaquin de Oliveira shared out the third places with Ethan Stier right there among them.
Dino Stermin (Designer Trims RKT Kosmic) made no mistakes as he took a trio of wins to hold off Delano Fowler (Suprocom FA) and further strengthen his Senior Max open 125 championship lead. Hylton Peters shared third places with Arnold du Toit, ahead of Richie Napier and Nicholas Jacobs.
Julian van der Watt (Kosmic) beat Jonathan Thomas (Partners CRG) two DD2 gearbox wins to one to take overall honours for the day while Tristan de Nobrega and the returning Chad Daniel shared third places ahead of DD2 debutant Delano Fowler and Luke van Rensburg. Richie Napier topped the Clubmans action ahead of Kian van der Merwe and Jody van Rensburg.
The Cape karters return to Killarney for their midwinter fourth round on Saturday 11 June.