SA on the podium in 2007 ROTAX World Final
01.11.2007
Canada's Pier-Luc Ouellette scored the biggest win of
his career when he waltzed to an easy win in the DD2 Rotax
Max Challenge Grand Finals at Al Ain today but there was
heartache for South African hopeful Kyle Lawrence
Having started from 25th place after being heaved off
the track on the last lap of the Pre-Final, he put in
a determined charge to claim a superb, and fighting ninth.
David Perel starred in the Senior Max Challenge final
and ran as high as second before a slight error saw him
go wide and in a flash he was down to 8th. He managed
to recover to sixth, a performance that left race engineer
Claudio Piazza-Musso impressed.
At the front there was drama all the way as last year's
winner Ricardo Romkema was forced wide at the final corner
by Russell Benjy who took the win while Michael Simpson
claimed third.
Caleb Williams starred in the Junior Final and a brilliant
drive and led from laps 4 to 11 before being passed and
then dropping a few more positions. By the last lap he
was up to second but was barged out of the way at the
second last corner by Fujie Ryuya (Japan) and dropped
to third while the win went to Estonian Kevin Korjus
There was a big cheer for the SA team as they ended the
competition second behind Canada in the Nations Cup with
Australia taking the bronze medal.
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