SPRING KARTING TO THE MAX AT KILLARNEY

Cape Rotax Max karting round 6 delivers the goods

Spring traditionally comes a little later to the Cape, but that did not prevent a perfect day for racing and the sixth round of the Western Cape Rotax Max Challenge Karting championship at Killarney on Saturday. Encouraging grids of karts across the classes made for entertaining races in a fair mix between close racing and domination.

DD2

Joseph Oelz bounced back from a lacklustre opening heat with wins in the second and third races to take premier gearbox class Rotax DD2 honours on a count-back after he tied with race 1 winner Jason Coetzee on the day. Matthew Wadeley beat Ethan Stier to third for the day with Rafe Tayler in fourth.

	DD2 TOP 3
1	Joseph Oelz	Tony Kart	99
2	Jason Coetzee	LN Kart	99
3	Matthew Wadeley	CRG	90

DD2 Masters

The ever-improving Jared Jordan was untroubled in DD2 Masters as he took a triple win and the day from Conor Hughes, Neville Chapman, Michael Jordan, Niel Lambrechts and Andrew Thomas.

	DD2 MASTERS TOP 3
1	Jared Jordan	BirelART	105
2	Conor Hughes	Kosmic	92
3	Neville Chapman	BirelART	91

Senior MAX & Junior MAX

Senior and Junior Max raced together. Charl Michael Visser returned to winning ways ahead of his appointment at next month’s Rotax ‘Olympics of Karting’ Grand Finals in Italy with a triple Rotax Senior Max win over Luca Wehrli, Storm Lanfear, Ethan Deacon, Gabriele Gazzilli, Mikaeel Moola and Jude Stuart. Sebastiano Human also went unbeaten in high school Rotax Junior Max. He beat Keagan Beaumont, Jordon Wadeley, Nicholas Lennox, Anwill April, Matthew Carter and Aiden Beaumont.

	SENIOR MAX TOP 3
1	Charl Visser	Sodi	105
2	Luca Wehrli	Tony Kart	96
3	Storm Lanfear	Kosmic	90

	JUNIOR MAX TOP 3
1	Sebastiano Human	Praga	105
2	Keagan Beaumont	CRG	96
3	Jordon Wadeley	CRG	88

MINI MAX

Opening race winner Max Boshoff benefited second and third heat victor Zac Hindley going out of the first race to take the Rotax under-13 Mini Max win from Hindley, Kiyaan Reddi, Michael Danks, Zach McAuley, Zac Boshoff, Lwashu Mathebula and Ruan Lewis.

	MINI MAX TOP 3
1	Max Boshoff	CRG	97
2	Zac Hindley	LN Kart	93
3	Kiyaan Reddi	CRG	92

MICRO MAX

Liam Wharton was another driver to go unbeaten in under-11 Micro Max, where Ruhan Victor ended second for the day from Jayden van der Merwe, Slater Smith, Michael O’Mahoney, Yaqeen Gamieldien, Qaanit Doutie and Mia Hermanus.

	MICRO MAX TOP 3
1	Liam Wharton	CRG	105
2	Ruhan Victor	Tony Kart	91
3	Jayden van der Merwe	CRG	89

BAMBINO

Caleb Lingeveldt, newcomer Divaaj Govender and newly crowned Global Bambino champion Radhi Harris shared out the baby Bambino wins in an epic day at the races. Harris however stopped in the final heat to hand third on the day to Lehan Fourie, with Aleena Doutie, Emelee Adriaans and Ashlyn Beaumont in chase.

	BAMBINO TOP 3
1	Caleb Lingeveldt	Top Kart	97
2	Divaaj Govender	Top Kart	94
3	Lehan Fourie	Top Kart	91

The Cape Rotax Max karters return to action for their penultimate round 7 on Saturday 5 October, a week before their Gauteng rivals do the same at Formula K. Then it’s time for the South African team to gear off and head to Naples, Italy to fly the flag in those 23-26 October 2024 Rotax Max Grand Finals.