Ryan and Adam Tomsett dominated last weekend’s Orange Kart Club South Pacific Titles, the Sydney-based brothers storming to undisputed class victories in a thrilling weekend at the lightning-fast Perc Griffith Way track.
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The pair claimed their respective Cadet 12 and KA4 Junior Light/Heavy titles by qualifying first, winning all four heats to claim pole position for their finals and then speeding to victory in the decisive races as well.
Ryan, who became the youngest Australian champion in history back in 2016, finished 2.792 seconds in front of Kamal Mrad despite the second-finisher actually clocking the final's best lap time, while Adam romped home.
He finished a tick under 10 seconds in front of the next best, Henry McLandsborough.
Orange’s Brett Robinson looked almost certain of doing the same in the KA3 Senior Medium too, the NSW Kart Championship TAG Heavy roared to the front of the grid by qualifying first then winning three of the four heats by more than five seconds.
He won the fourth by 3.56 seconds too and led through the opening two laps of the final as well, before disappointing dropping a chain that rendered him unable to finish.
Thanks to that, and a superb drive too, Sydney’s Matthew Waters finished on top of the podium, winning by more than four seconds from Dubbo’s Luke Wrigley.
Grenfell’s Kobe McInerney and Queanbeyan’s Beck Connell also topped their respective classes – Cadet 9 and KA3 Senior Light – from start to finish, the former won his final by an incredible 15.37 seconds too.
Orange’s Stephen Roffe ensured the host club had someone top the podium over the weekend, qualifying first and winning all but one race after that to seal the KA4 Senior/Masters title.
The Tag Restricted class provided one of the weekend’s most entertaining battles, fought out by Newcastle’s Lachlan Charnock and Dubbo’s Greg Cusack.
The pair qualified one-two, respectively, and traded heat victories to claim the top two grid spots in the final as well.
Charnock proved too good in the final, leading from go to woah to claim the win. Cusack sat behind him in second for the entire race too, eventually finishing eight seconds behind the Newcastle driver.
The KA3 Junior division also provided an enthralling title fight, with Bateman’s Bay’s Bailey Sweeney eventually winning.
He and Sydney’s George Mawad, running a set-up from Orange’s Burcher Race Engines, fought it out for pole position with each winning two heats.
Sweeney claimed the top grid spot and actually led from start to finish, while Mawad dropped back to third before moving into second on the third lap.
He closed to gap between him and Sweeney but despite clocking the fastest lap of 39.597 he couldn’t quite oust the Bateman’s Bay star, the winning margin just 0.08 of a second.
In the annual Rusty Nut Challenge, Orange Kart Club president Wayne Ogilvie thrilled the crowd by charging from last to first to win.
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