– Ten-Pow, Persauds, Nobrega are champion drivers

THE KFC Mega Cup closed off on Sunday evening following an eventful karting which featured high- intensity action.

After two rounds of gruelling competition using the SKUSA (Super Karts USA) format, the event crowned its various champions.

Jeremy Ten-Pow won the 60cc Champion driver award while Mikhail Persaud won the Junior Category, Steven Nobrega took the 125cc Senior class and Zachary Persaud won the Easy Cup division.

On the night, however, the battles were hot and steamy

Baby cup shows bright future

The future of karting was on show last night and it was all Nicholas Sawh who picked up the final win over Benjamin Phang and Caleb Paul.

In the only event of the night to rely on lap timing, it was Sawh’s 36.8 that gave him the best time in the qualifier over Phang and Paul, but Phang responded strongly in the pre-final, demoting Sawh to second and Paul third.

In the final, however, Sawh came out blazing, posting a 36.8 to win the trophy.

Zachary Persaud shows his worth in Easy Cup

Some close battles in the Easy Cup division ended with Zachary Persaud lifting the title in a class where drama was a must. Zach took pole in qualifying with a last lap effort off Brian Woolford and Naresh Alves.

During the pre-final however, disaster struck and a first lap pileup saw Zach fall back to seventh, after which he battled his way back to fifth with Sachin Narine finishing first, Shahab Ghanie second and Brian Woolford third.

IN the final, however, he worked his way back up to the top step of the podium, while Woolford finished third and Ghanie finished second.

 Kids cup goes down to the wire.

Jeremy Ten-Pow won the overall title and the final of the night but not without Paige Mendonca, who was a constant thorn in his side.

Paige out-qualified both Ten-Pow brothers, Justin and Jeremy in that order, in the five-lap shoot-out opening session which landed her kart on pole for the 10-lap pre-final.

And she put on a fantastic drive in the pre-final to hold off Jeremy up until the last corner of the last lap where he won by 1/16^th of a kart length.

In the final, Jeremy came under intense pressure in the opening fixture but dealt with it well to come home ahead of Paige and Justin.

Mikhail Persaud dominates junior class

The Junior class was all Mikhail Persaud. A 31.561 in qualifying nudged out Rayden Persaud for pole position with Zachary Persaud’s 31.737 being good enough for third. Further back was Elan Rahaman, Jeremy Ten-Pow, who stepped up to this class for the event and Faraud Mohamed, all separated by four-tenths of a second to the pole sitter.

The pre-final was a master-class of defensive driving from Mikhail who held off a charging Rayden Persaud and Zachary Persaud with the final ending the same way.

 Jeffrey, Daley set seniors alight

From the qualifying session for the 125cc Seniors, it was a battle between Jamaica’s Colin Daley and Kristian Jeffrey. And with the class being the largest with 11 competitors, they had to do qualifying in two batches, with Daley setting the bar high with 31.316 and Jeffrey, who came out in the second session posting a 31.312 on the first lap, bettering that the next lap with a 31.138.

In the pre-final, Jeffrey got the jump on Daley and was absolutely blistering. Daley had to make up ground but was no match for the Guyanese, finishing second with Steven Nobrega third.

In the final, team work between Jeffrey and Nobrega helped them pull away from Daley and the duo never looked back; Daley and Nobrega swapping podium places for the final

Anticlimactic shifter end

The much-touted shifter kart event had an anticlimactic end to an otherwise interesting battle. A four wide pileup of drivers in the hairpin corner of the track left one kart out and the other in serious need of repair.

A show of sportsmanship from the Guyanese trio of Calvin Ming, Kristian Jeffrey and Stefan Jeffrey allowed a 15-minute break for mechanics to fix Colin Daley’s kart. On the restart, however, the Jeffrey cousins would depart before they gave any meaningful competition; Stefan flying off into the tyres after contact and Kristian retiring with mechanical damage, leaving Calvin Ming to win ahead of Daley. The duo did put on an entertaining exchange, however, with at least half of the 15 lap-race.

 In the earlier pre-final, Daley got the better of Jeffrey from the line and never looked back, with Ming finishing ahead of Jeffrey.

Daley got revenge in the earlier qualifying session when he beat Kristian Jeffrey by one-tenth of a second, while  Stefan placed third and Ming fourth