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A perfect midwinter’s day made for an excellent backdrop to the fifth round of the Western Province Karting Championships at Killarney on Saturday, where great racing thrilled an enthusiastic crowd with some fine action as the regular classes delivered their expected needle.

There was however significant extra interest around the arrival of the quick, new DVS class, which raced for the first time over the weekend. The new class, which races to a different ethos to regular front-end karting in that drivers rent their engines, which are drawn out of a hat for each race day; rather than relying on the best money can buy, drew a most interesting entry list of regular Cape karters, returning drivers and an out of own entry too…

But it was that Jozl visitor, Arnold Neveling (RKT FA Kart) who took Killarney’s first DVS honours with two race wins to one over the returning Kohen Bam (Kosmic). Junior Max refugee Sebastian Boyd was third ahead of DD2 racer Julian van der Watt, another returning driver in Delano Fowler, the busy Jason Coetzee and former Senior Max lad Dino Stermin.

Getting back to the regular classes, Umpie Swart (EMR CRG) dominated the DD2 gearbox category with three straight wins over the similarly-mounted Julian van der Watt and Jonathan Thomas each time, while Jacques De Bruyn took DD2 Masters honours from Connor Hughes in fourth and fifth, with Roy Gruer sixth.

Luke Herring won two Senior Max races in a row to take overall honours on his brand new LHR RKT FA Kart, but he was made to work for it by race 3 winner Jason Coetzee (RKT Kosmic). Hilton Pieters was third from Reece Oellerman, Tristan de Nobrega and Marco Viegas. Coetzee meanwhile tightened his grip on the high school Junior Max title chase aboard his RKT Kosmic with three straight wins over Simon Simpson-Heath, brother and sister Storm and Gabi Lanfear, Nicholas Sage and second Lanfear sister Gabi.

Troy Dolinschek (Makita Kosmic) made no mistakes en route to primary school Maxterino 60cc honours from Tate Bishop (TPB Kosmic) and Denis Joubert, who scored his best result yet in third aboard his SAKRA Kosmic. Mikhail Fernandez was also impressive in fourth ahead of Jason MacBeath and Paul Malcolm.

Joseph Oelz (Kosmic) won two primary school Mini Max wins to one over Kai Van Zyl (SAKRA Kosmic) to take the overall win for the day, with Sibo Solomon (Kosmic) third from Tate Bishop, Thaqib Meyer and Andre Le Riche. Reese Koorzen (FA Kart) took junior primary Micro Max overall honours with two wins to one over Valentino Hoffman (GP Energy FA Kart) with Joaquin De Oliveira (ESA Partner FA) third from Ethan Stier, Reza Levy and Mischa Williams.

Reese Koorzen delivered three straight Cadet wins to take overall honours but not before a tough fight with second kid on the day Luan Mostert, who claimed a couple of seconds and a third to end up ahead of Joshua Smit, Eric Norman, Ethan Deacon and Tahir Abrahams.

Isabelle Fowler beat Andrew Thomas two races to one to take overall WP Clubmans honours with Jody van Rensburg to add spice to the Class A title. While Terry Watt was unbeatable in Class C as Charles Matthewson and Lamahl Padayachi looked on, Christopher Vrettos took  the wildcard Class X win from Faheem Meyer and Graham Stephen as all three returned to the class over the weekend.

Karting returns to Killarney for round 6 of the Western Cape Karting Championship alongside the third round of the Cape Rotax Max Challenge Saturday 12 August.