More Wins for O'meara-Hunt And Rooney at Waitara

More Wins for O'meara-Hunt And Rooney at Waitara

The wins kept on coming for 2015/16 Bayleys WPKA Goldstar class champions Rianna O'Meara-Hunt and Jackson Rooney at the series' annual season-ending one-day 'Championship' meeting in Taranaki on Sunday.

O'Meara-Hunt from Wellington won three of the five Formula Junior class heats to claim overall day victory in that class while Jackson Rooney from Palmerston North won three of his five Vortex Mini ROK heats as well as the stand-alone class Grand Prix race to top score in that class.

The pace was fast and furious in the cool, dry conditions at host club KartSport Taranaki's Todd Energy Raceway at Waitara, with O'Meara-Hunt twice lowering the track lap record in her class before Tom Greig from Palmerston North claimed it for himself.

Greig also won the Junior Grand Prix race after finally taking the lead on the last lap, and ended up a close second (there was just one point in it) behind O'Meara-Hunt in the Formula Junior class standings with second-generation Hawke's Bay racers Zac Stichbury and Ronan Murphy third and fourth respectively.

Second both for the day and in the Vortex Mini ROK class Grand Prix was top local driver Thomas Boniface with Ryan Crombie third in class and fourth in the Grand Prix race.

Three heat race wins were also enough to give reigning New Zealand Sprint champion Mason Potter overall victory in the Cadet ROK class, though it was fellow Aucklander Liam Sceats who won the class Grand Prix race from Potter, Logan Manson and class round runner-up and first heat race winner Kaden Probst.

In the Senior classes Zach Zaloum dominated 125cc Rotax Max Heavy with four heat wins from five starts, while victory in 125cc Rotax Max Light went to young gun Jacob Cranston from Senior Grand Prix race winner Ethan Hourigan and James Higgins.

Brent Hickmott, meanwhile, proved the man to beat in ClubSport 120, winning four of his five heats to lead home the winner of the other heat, Braden Parsons and the consistent Brent Robinson in the day standings.

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