UAE RMC 2019 - 20 Round 3 Program

UAE ROTAX MAX CHALLENGE 2019-20

OFFICIALS

SECRETARY OF THE MEETING GRAND INDY CIRCUIT
1420 metres
Lalyne Estrella

CLERK OF THE COURSE

Gordon Mellis

ASS CLERK OF THE COURSE

David Robinson

CHIEF STEWARD

Sean Murphy

STEWARD

Joao Gouveia

CHIEF TIMEKEEPER

Mujeeb Mubarak

CHIEF SCRUTINEER

Martin Robertson

ASSISTANT SCRUTINEER
Lazarin Jotev

OBSERVER
Andy Booth
Graham Snook

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ROUND 3 CIRCUIT

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ROUND 3 ENTRY LIST

BAMBINO KART # NAME KART #
1 5 Zak Sowerby 7
NAME 2 6 Leonidas Peruzzi 10
1 Mills Rory 4 7 Jeffrey Tachajian 16
2 Ghaith Al Mheiri 6
3 Mohammed Al Hamli KART #
4 Emelien Boul KART # NAME 59
1 6 Filippo Parmeggiani 88
MICRO MAX 8 7 Daniel Leung 91
16 8 Seb Murray 95
NAME 21 9 Zain Elhommossany
1 Adam Al Azhari 26
2 Adam Awan
3 Shivali Sinha
4 Max Murray
5 Benjamin Wade

MINI MAX KART # NAME KART #
104 7 Lewis England 132
NAME 106 8 Nathan Porte 133
1 Alisia Khneisser 107 9 Ylies Maillard 141
2 Sofia Nechhi 108 10 Adam Jones 150
3 Bertie Gibbons 119 11 Iko Segret 155
4 Fahad Al Rawahi 123
5 Harry Hannam KART #
6 Krishna Vishnu Shankar KART # NAME 241
203 8 Yannis Maillard 245
JUNIOR MAX 216 9 Alessio Di Scipio 255
217 10 Vivaan Chiripal 276
NAME 223 11 Anshul Gandhi 277
1 Zack Scoular 222 12 Kamal Agha 295
2 William Wade 226 13 Kayne Cherian 299
3 Noah Tamasker 234 14 Alexander Renner
4 Georgie Zouein
5 Adham Fouad KART # NAME KART #
6 Nigel Abraham Thomas 307 6 Theo Kekati 333
7 Jack Carless 313 7 Khaled Ray Saab 346
314 8 Abdelrahman Fraij 355
MAX 316 9 Oleg Kasakov 377
317 10 Liam Jones 386
NAME
1 Jacopo Mazza 404 8 Gianluca Elmosi 517
2 Lachlan Robinson 417 9 Maurizio Colombo 543
3 Mehrbod Shameli 452 10 Mehmet Yaman 550
4 Iya Seys 453 11 Daniel Jones 550
5 Romaldo Labrooy 470 12 Greg Watt 555
501 13 Francois-Xavier Boul 578
DD2 / DD2 MASTER 511

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2 Lukas Randerath
3 Constantin Reisch
4 Marcus Lee Marker
5 Kyle Kumaran
6 Anthony Hogg
7 Dario Rubio

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press release

Review of Team UAE at the 2019 Rotax MAX Challenge Grand Finals in Naples
Team UAE rewarded their 2018/2019 Champions by granting them a ticket to the coveted event that many liken
to the Olympics of Karting. Descending on the venue were the world’s best Rotax MAX karting drivers, 360 of them
from over 60 countries, to do battle over a week to determine the best of the best in Micro MAX, Mini MAX, Junior
MAX, Senior MAX, DD2 and DD2 Masters.
What went down at Sarno - a track that has witnessed the likes of Michael Schumacher, Nico Rosberg and Lewis
Hamilton during their junior years - during that week would fill volumes as every driver and his entourage would be
severely tested, with joy and disappointment as emotional neighbours during the week of Qualifying Races, Pre-Finals
and ultimately the Grand Final on Saturday, 26th October.

Accompanying the team was Guy Sheffield, Al Ain Raceway Club Director
and on Team Manager duties in Naples, who kept an eye on all drivers
while on standby should any Team UAE drivers be required to visit the
Stewards as the team representative.

Despite the busy week for Sheffield, he still found the time to monitor the
Team UAE drivers and shared his thoughts in the aftermath of the event.

“Our outstanding performer was, without doubt, Senior MAX driver
Lachlan ‘Lochie’ Robinson who was massively impressive all week. In previous years he might have lost his head when
battling for the lead, but he never put a foot wrong this time out and to finish within a second of the eventual Champion
after starting 15th is remarkable.
”He did an amazing job, he was sensational this week and credit to his mechanic Alex Hayward and the entire team
who rallied around him and supported him throughout. Lochie delivered one of the best performances I have witnessed
at the Grand Finals by a Team UAE driver. With the top 5 covered by under a second, this was one of the toughest
and most high-quality races we have witnessed.

“Going into the Grand Finals we felt we had a good chance with our younger lads.
Adam Al Azhari in the Micro MAX got off to a bad start and spent the week
recovering. He drove spectaculary in the Pre Final, gaining 20 positions to finish
12th and gave a gutsy performance in the Final to maintain that position.

”Harry Hannam was also a victim of too many incidents in the Mini MAX class
and paid the price, having to come from too deep in the field in the Qualifying
Races to deliver on his full potential. He too had a top-five finish in him but fate
had other plans and after an incident-packed final he brought it home 30th.

“The Junior MAX category is very tough one and we have always struggled to make it into any of the previous finals.
Thus Georgie Zouein and Khaled Saab, both with international experience, had their work cut-out.
Again our drivers were compromised by not hitting the sweet spot in Qualifying and thus playing catch up in the Heat
races. Ultimately, Khaled failed to make it into the Final but Georgie showed incredible composure and skill in the Pre
Final, making up 16 places to finish 5th, a result that saw in him qualifying for the Grand Final against all odds.

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“Unfortunately in the Finals on Saturday, Georgie got caught up in a melee during the race and ended the day 34th
but, nonetheless, reaching the Final was an impressive achievement against a field of such quality.

”Also plagued by a below-par DD2 Qualifying performance was Jakob Robinson who was forced to play catch-up
through a quality field that were doing him no favours. In the end, making the Final was too much of a tall order and
Jakob bowed out of his 3rd Grand Finals early than hoped. It was good to see him supporting the rest of the team
with a smile on his face even after his disappointment.

“Kyle Kumaran got off to a slow but solid start, the Dubai based schoolboy getting stronger with every outing as
he got familiar with a kart (Birel) he never raced with and on a track he had never visited.

”For a driver with only three years of karting under his belt he made a good impression to qualify through to the Final
and finish 18th, despite going onto the grass on lap one as the field hurtled into Turn 1. He kept his head but rejoined
at the wrong end of the field before making an impressive recovery. Again, in such high-profile company, this result
has to go down as success.

“The DD2 Masters (minimum age entry 31) was again a very tough battlefield with some of the finest drivers in
action.Team UAE’s veterans were always going to be up against the relative ‘young guns’ and as a result qualifying as
one of the 36 drivers for the Final, from the 72 entries, was the goal for the trio.

”Neither Tony Hogg or Hussain Umid Ali had smooth Qualifying Races which did them no favours, while Umid Ali
admitted lack of fitness and preparation hampered his week in Italy.

“Hogg got close but not close enough to make it into the Final, while Gianluca Elmosi was sorely missed when he was
forced to withdraw from the Grand Finals after one day and return home to Abu Dhabi for personal reasons.

”As for the event it was slick and well organised across the board as Rotax and their team continue to maintain a high
standard for international karting which has become the template for other series at the grassroots of the sport.

“All in all a good week with a number of solid performances, but one that really stood out - within a second of victory.
It is important to return home proud of our participation at this level. But we must look forwards to maximising our
preparation and opportunities for next year when our future UAE Champions will again have the privilege of
representing the country on this grand stage.

” I would like to thank Rotax, and in particular Al Ain Raceway’s Board of Directors and Abu Dhabi Sports Council,
among those who make this participation possible. Without these key bodies, Team UAE would not have the
opportunity to compete and shine on the karting world stage, as we have done regularly over the past 15 years.“
concluded Sheffield.

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