Queensland Title Finale ArrivesPosted by Mark Jones, 4 October 2008, 12:16 PM |
This weekend sees the final round of the Queensland Superkart Championship, held at Warwick's Morgan Park Raceway.
The resurgent field of Queensland Superkarts which has seen a growth in numbers in non-gearbox racing at Queensland Raceway, and in representation at both State and National Championships heads to Warwick with the two major pointscores to be finalised.
In the CAMS State Championship Buildersmile Construction PVP racer Carlo Chermaz holds the upper hand, leading the series by 75 points to 56 points. The challenge will come from the Coach Design team, Chryss Jamieson sits second on those 56 points he has accumulated in his Honda powered Anderson Maverick.
Russell Jamieson is third with 46 points and is almost out of the running for the title in his 125cc laydown Stockman-Honda, although a perfect weekend can deliver as many as 43 series points. Russell a former national 125cc champion does hold the upper hand in the Queensland Superkart Club points race.
Utilising the 401-points system which rewards the performance of classes with a larger representation in the grid Jamieson has accumulated 3580 points by racing at the head of the popular 125cc class. Chermaz is second with 3058 ahead of the leading 80cc Gladiator racer Cameron Moxley with 3027.
Other competitors in the running for high championship placing are the Philp family, Craig (2520 pts) leading his son Tim (2334) in their 125cc Stockman-Hondas. Chryss Jamieson sits on 2459 in his 250 International class Anderson while nephew Lindsay Jamieson (2879 pts) is well placed in the Traffic Management Systems 80cc Gladiator. The leading non-gearbox competitor Todd Gardner sits on 2556 points racing a CRG Maximo Rotax Max.
The Superkarts will face the starter five times over the two day meeting with races of varying lengths over the exciting 2.1 kilometre Morgan Park layout, potential for the last time in its current form as the circuit will close temporarily over the Christmas break for further extensions to bring the track up the the standard able to hold national level meetings, the chance to shift the lap record, which at Morgan Park is also the outright lap record as the fastest racing category that races there will be tempting.
Reigning Australian champion Warren McIlveen currently holds that record, and it will provide Chermaz, Chryss Jamieson and the rest of the 250 International class a target to aim for.
Results as they happen can be found at Natsoft:
www.natsoft.com.au/cgi-bin/results.cgi
