It was finally time to go back to my favourite track! The Hamilton track provides lots of big kerbs, carrying speed everywhere! We stayed at Bea's Studio in Hamilton. It was really good and had a King Size bed.
We pitted with Toby Waghorn (#84 KA4 Junior Light), Alexander Yoannidis (#17 Cadet 9), Brett Jenkin (#6 Tag Restricted Heavy) and Joshua D' Ambrosio (#95 KA4 Junior Light). Nick Sacco (#80 KA4 Junior Light) and Cadel Taylor (#8p Cadet 9) were with us some of the time. I also was with James Snaith (#11 Cadet 12), as well as Jay Racovalis (KA4 Junior Heavy #99) and Joshua Clay (KA4 Junior Heavy #61p). This was Josh's first race being the only Junior driver in Hamilton and they don't run and club days.
Saturday
Practice
Practice was pretty good, I got a 33:01 in Practice 3.
Qualifying
I Qualified 7th, but I felt that I could of been 5th.
Qualifying Results:
1. Joel Johnson (#15) - 32:644.
2. Daniel Hookway (#95) - 32:684
3. Zaiden Barry (#63) - 32: 838
4. Samuel Davies (#10) - 32:883
5. Lachlan Swayn (#90) - 33:016
6. Aidan Solomon (#33) - 33:120
7. Braden Clark (#18) - 33:136 [Me]
8. Kye Belton (#29) - 33:139
9. Alex Ryan (#5) - 33:157
10. Nicholas Ryan (#7) - 33:164
11. Ben Taylor (#22) - 32:222
12. Ryan Cook (#28) - 33:256
13. Seth Burton (#25) - 32:269
14. Jay Racovalis (#99) - 33:336
15. Johnny Hill (#88) - 33.382
16. Maximus Fahey (#71) - 33.394
17. Winston Smith (#26) - 33.407
18. Joshua Horder (#66) - 33.609
19. Riley Jabke (#44) - 33.634
20. Max Green (#39) - 33.768
21. Daniel Golightly (#46) - 34.339
22. Keean Ferguson (#48) - 36.948
23. Joshua Clay (#61p) - 37.312
Sunday
Heat 1.
Heat 1 was a really fun race despite the result. I dropped to 9th by the end of lap 1. I was battling with Lachlan, Aidan and Nick throughout the race, and I was right on their tail until lap 7 when I finally got past Lachlan and was working on getting by Aidan when Nick bombed me on the last lap at turn 4. Really fun race, finished 10th.
Heat 2.
Starting 10th, I got to 8th by lap 1 and 6th by lap 2. Jay passed me mid lap 2, and was stuck there until lap 5 where Nick got me and I got Jay a lap later. Alex passed me the next lap, and finished there in 8th.
Final.
About 2 mins before the race began, it absolutely pelted down all of a sudden and no one knew it because the radar did not pick it up. We got given 5 mins to change setup, and thanks to Toby for helping us, we got the airbox cover, wet tyres and brought the fronts out. We left when some were still on the trolley and some on slicks. I was starting 9th, and by the time everyone got out we had used an extra roll around lap. I got into 4th by the end of lap 1, and got into 3rd by lap 7 where Aidan spun of infront of me. Mid lap 7, I got hit side on and dropped to 5th. the next lap I dropped another 2 spots. Ended 7th. I felt that I should of been 3rd.
Overall a really fun weekend, my next race will be the Puckapunyal club day in preparation for the Junior Sprint Classic. Right after the Junior Sprint, DPE VCS Round 6 will be held at Portland.
May upload all the full races.
Braden Clark, Kart #18.
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