"WINNERS ARE GRINNERS"
Photos by Gary Trounson - Story by Jon Crooke

2008 NATIONALS - Phillip Island
10th August 2008

2008 National Champion HyperRacer drivers.
Heavy Champion Mark Wicks and Junior Champion Sean Whitfield.

Hyper Racer has won 2 of the 3 classes at the 2008 Nationals at Phillip Island.
Mark Wicks and Sean Whitfield braved miserably cold and wet conditions to take the Heavy and Junior National titles.
Both drivers added the National title to their Victorian State wins two weeks earlier.

DRIVER QUOTES
Champion Rotax Heavy driver Mark Wicks (kartsportnews.com HyperRacer): "The kart's been really strong all weekend and we had some really close racing in the first heat and the final it was really tight and a lot wetter. I actually ran off the track at the second turn, put two wheels in the dirt and dropped back to about fourth. Got back into the lead and got baulked into Siberia and dropped back to fifth but got back into second on the line! Once it got up to speed it was just a rocket down the straight and the handling and the tyres were really good. A good weekend."

Champion Rotax Junior driver Sean Whitfield (Wild Digital HyperRacer): "I had a really good weekend, Saturday wasn't too crash hot but we got there in the end, lost my good engine on Saturday after qualifying, then in the Saturday race I got taken out by a Senior, but Sunday won all of the races, that was really good. It feels heaps good to have come back from all of that to win."

Beware of a man wearing rubber gloves. Wicks cross-dresses as a dishwasher, on his way to the 2008 Naional title.
Mark Wicks' #75 HyperRacer for Sale here.

Whitfield on the way to claiming his second National title in as many years.

It's a long walk to the top. Sean Whitfield makes his way to the grid for the last race.

Whitfield qualified P1 by over 2.2 seconds. Heat placings were 3, 1, 1 and 1.

Kristian Stebbing had a mixed weekend, finishing eaqual 5th in lights.

Chris Jewell battled drama after drama to finish 6th in heavies.

Tom Jewell comforts his father Chris, during his weekend from hell.

Michael Rogers was the class act of the Lights division with 4 from 4 to win his second National Lights title.

John Whitfield worked hard all weekend, to keep son Sean on track.

THE GREAT MARK WICKS.
Club Champion - State Champion - National Champion - World Champion.
Is this goodbye ?

Gary will be attending most Victorian Superkarts race meetings. If you require a stunning photograph of your kart in action, Gary is your man. If you contact him prior to the race meeting, he can concentrate on getting THE photo of your Superkart.

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