Round 7 - Dubbo
posted 18th September 2007 How Good is this Sh#t!
TEKA has produced some exceptional racing recently, and Dubbo didn’t disappoint! Actually it produced some of the best racing seen this year, now that’s a big call!
Road Runner were trying to hold a lead in the Championship. Fourplay were trying to make up ground on them, and Intrepid coming from behind needed to make up even more ground but were capable. XLR8 would have been keen to hang onto their current third position.
In B Grade GP Racing were making a charge for the lead that was only just held by Havacrac. Dynamite were also coming back from some reliability issues after being dominant through the mid part of the season.
There was interest from teams outside the regular, Colin Finke and the Phoenix boys came up from Melbourne, Team Maserati made the trip from QLD and the local boys joined in to give us a field of 28 karts and 60+ drivers.
Qualifying would be decided by adding the best single lap times of two drivers in a 10min session each. Enforcer 5th under a 10th of a second ahead was the RAW Team, the battle for poll close with Intrepid beating Fourplay by a mere 8/100ths, not bad over two drivers.
Ya Gotta Wanna who’d been fast of late another great result to qualify first in B Grade beating home GP Racing by under 2/10ths.
Race 1 would see a close battle between three karts. Kinetic and Enforcer held up with mechanical issues and XLR8 losing a rear tyre Able Door Services kept the front teams honest, but the race would see saw between Intrepid and RAW with Fourplay and Road Runner just behind.
After four hours of close racing Intrepid victorious by only 31 seconds followed by RAW, Fourplay and Road Runner. Dynamite the first B Grade kart coming in only 3 laps behind the outright leaders followed by GP Racing and Ya Gotta Wanna.
Good performances at the top of the order also by Able Door Services, and Kinetic Buildline who came back to 6th, Grey Ghost Racing and Horse Power Racing Too with their highest finish to date.
Race 2 start grid would be determined by the finishing positions from the day before. Teams must finish well to achieve a good result for the weekend as the positions from Race 1 and Race 2 would be added together and points allocated accordingly.
Again extremely close racing, as well as being clean. We hadn’t seen a pace kart all weekend. Noteworthy performances by Road Runner who backed up a solid day 1 result with 6th, and Buildline who came back from an early brain fade (or was it intentional) after sliding into another kart and copping a harsh penalty.
Two karts would again finish on the lead lap, with the following four also on the same lap one behind the leaders. Kinetic Buildline beat home Enforcer for 3rd by only 3.1seconds. 16 seconds further back were Fourplay in 5th under 2 seconds ahead of Road Runner 6th.
And the winners….
The two lead karts would achieve exactly the same number of laps as the day before in exactly the same 4 hour time limit with a gap between them of only 4 seconds more than the day before, only the positions had changed and RAW Racing took the race win from Intrepid! Another amazing statistic - the time it took the winning kart to do the 241 laps on day two was only 11.9 seconds longer than it took the winners on day one! Unreal!
In B Grade, an excellent result in Race 2 for GP Racing coming in 1st and 8th overall giving them a win over the two days and the B Championship lead. Ya Gotta Wanna had been leading up to a good result with their recent turn of speed and should be congratulated for 2nd for the weekend.
The weekend’s outright winners would be decided on the pole position of Intrepid seeing as they and RAW scored exactly the same number of points in Races 1 and 2. Third were Fourplay and only 1 point further behind for the weekend were Kinetic Buildline.
Everyone keep in mind our Grand Finale held at Newcastle on November 9th / 10th. TEKA are happy to announce they will be supporting, and fund raising for the Breast Cancer Foundation on the Grand weekend.
If anyone is interested in competing or in supporting in someway please feel free to call Justin on 0417 330229 or Steve on 0411 511065 for info. We would love to see every kart that has competed this year come join us at one of the country’s best tracks to make up a 40 kart field in what is already being billed as possibly the Greatest Showdown for 2007!
Justin Sydenham