August - Go Racing Magazine

Rosenzweig paced the field in the early stages after he and Neal
swapped the spot a few times. They would not last long up front as
Chris Wehrheim was on a charge from sixth. His favorite spot on
track was turn five, making the pass for third, second, and then first
in that corner in consecutive laps. From there he would not relinquish
the spot and cruised to a 3.206-second victory.
Though he was out from comfortably, he was not the fastest
driver on track. Saturday’s winner Victor Cabrera (Kosmic) - who
was collected in a wreck during the Prefinal to start the main from
23rd - clawed his way through the field, eventually getting to the top
five and working by for second on the final lap. That put Neal back
to third at the line with Iannucci - his best finish of the year - and
Guillermo Freile (Tony Kart) rounding out the top five. Rosenzweig
fell back to seventh behind John Mossey (Gillard) and with his result,
gave Scott Jenkins (Intrepid) the unofficial ICA Eastern Division
Championship despite not running in Shawano this weekend to
compete at the CIK European KF2 Championship.
Spec Racer
Team Top Kart USA continued its hold atop the Spec Racer
category early on in the Gatorz Pole Qualifying as Saturday winner
Conor Daly and Adam Johnson were 1-2. When it was done, the last
two karts to get the checkered flag won the battle with Daly earning
the pole running a 1:07.946 with Jared Woolf (Intrepid) following
him across the line.
Johnson got the jump at the start of the Spec Racer Prefinal with
Daly falling in behind. The two again pulled out to a lead over Beard
and Robert Stout (Birel) who were battling for third. Johnson took
the win over Daly as Stout put space between him and Beard for
third.
Johnson and Daly repeated the Prefinal, making it a 1-2 finish
for Top Kart both days, this time Johnson took the top step of
the podium for his second win of the season. Daly however would
earn enough points for the unofficial Spec Racer Eastern Division
championship. Beard would get the better of Stout this time for
third with Searcy regaining fifth toward the end of the race. Searcy
however would be penalized for not reporting to tech, removing him
from the results and handing fifth place over to Johnsrud.
JICA
The JICA division hit the track under dry conditions with
Saturday winner Spencer Pigot (First Kart) continuing on the
momentum from his first Stars JICA win in today’s Gatorz Pole
Qualifying. On his third lap, Pigot ran a 1:00.171 fast time on his
third lap with teammate and championship leader Brendan Langlois
coming up just 0.012-seconds short of the pole. Taylor Miinch was
in the bottom half of the standings until he pulled off a fast lap late
Cabrera
ICA
in the session to move up to the third starting spot for the Prefinal.
Jarvis Gennari (Tony Kart) was fourth with Sean Rayhall (Kosmic)
rounding out the fast five.
The JICA Prefinal was the first on track after the lunch break,
with the track drying out all the drivers were on the slicks. After
the first few laps of initial dicing between the front runners, Pigot
was able to pull away for the Prefinal win with Caban moving up to
second ahead of Phinny, Gennari and Phil DeLaO (First Kart).
Caban was able to get the jump in the Final from the outside of
row one but would not last as DeLaO led the field across the line for
the first time with Caban, Mercado, Phinny and Pigot the early top
five. The top five shuffled around and ran close together until near the
halfway mark when Mercado was able to slip away and never look
back to earn his second win of the year for Tony Kart and JC Karting.
DeLaO was able to move back up to second in front of Phinny.
Langlois and Gennari ran nose to tail to advance up through the field
from 16th and 17th. Gennari would however finish one spot ahead
of the Canadian inside the top five, but Langlois would earn enough
points to claim the unofficial JICA Eastern Division championship.
Cadet
Under the wet conditions, Jacob Will (Top Kart) was quickest
in the Cadet Gatorz Pole Qualifying session with Canadian Garett
Grist (CRG) posting the second fastest time. Unofficial Cadet
Eastern Champion Sage Karam (Birel) was third with Mason
Chelootz (Intrepid) and Tristan DeGrand (Kosmic) rounding out
the fast five.
Four karts broke away in the lead pack for the Cadet Prefinal with
the spots decided in the final corners. Heading into the final corners,
Santino Ferrucci (S-1) was running first after starting tenth when he
went wide and off track. This allowed Karam to take the lead and the
win with Grist and Ian Tilbor ( Juncos) - who started 11th - crossing
the line behind him. DeGrand and Will rounded out the top five.
The Final came down to five drivers, putting on a great show for
the fans along the fences. Tilbor controlled the top spot coming into
the oval section of the final lap when he went wide, allowing Karam
to slip through and grab his sixth straight Eastern Division victory
and the East championship. Carlos Abreu (S-1) finished third with
Grist and Will completing the top five, all crossing the line with
seven-tenths of a second.
Wehrheim
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