WICKS - WET and WILD
Photos by Gary Trounson
June 2nd 2007


HYPERS CAN SWIM.
PHILLIP ISLAND
It was a wet start but a fine end to the third round of the Victorian Superkart club series at Phillip Island last Saturday.

Karters were presented with a slippery and rather wet track for qualifying, which was completed in two parts thanks to a mid-session red flag. The opening heat was declared wet but winds dried the track enough during the race to make the soft wet tyres a little gooey by the end. The remaining races were run in the dry.


Mark Wicks was Number One in qualifying. The MAX Heavy driver was fastest of all the Rotax's (Light and Heavy) in the wet qualifying session, 1.5s faster than the next MAX driver Dean Crooke and 4s quicker than his closest Heavy rival. Wicks took a clean sweep of the Heavy class and re-took the lead in the title chase after his Round 2 crash.


12 year old, Sean Whitefield, in only his second Superkart race, scored his first heat win. Having never driven at Phillip Island, and with his first laps being a combined practice and qualifying rain soaked session, Sean came to grips with the high speed track and in fact took his first heat win (Heat 2) in his one week old Superkart career.


Trounson had a good day.


Stebbing above. Crooke below.


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Wicks and Atherton.
For full race results CLICK HERE
For Patrick Athertons race report CLICK HERE

Gary will be attending most Victorian Superkarts race meetings. If you require a stunning photograph of your kart in action, Gary is your man. If you contact him prior to the race meeting, he can concentrate on getting THE photo of your Superkart.
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