STARS OF KARTING IN FLORIDA

April 4-6, 2008 saw Stars of Karting come to Florida for the East Division Events 1 + 2 races.

As seems to hold true for the first Stars of Karting race every year it rained at this event also. Not only did it rain but Sunday it flat out poured down most of the day. Any other race in Florida would have been canceled but Stars of Karting stuck to their schedule and raced even though conditions where horrible.

The event was well organized with 31 JICA’s and 24 Cadets taking the track for two days of racing. The race format was a bit different with qualifying determining your grid position for the three heat races. If you had a bad qualifying effort this format really works against you but it sure made it interesting. Rather than have one final on Saturday and one on Sunday Stars had two finals on Sunday.

Florida racers had a good showing with Jarvis Gerinari driving skills in the rain really shined. Danny Formal had the best finish of all the Florida racers with a win in one of the finals on Sunday.

The point standing for Stars of Karting Florida races are as follows in JICA: 2 Jarvis Gerinari, 3 Danny Formal, 10 Phil Delao, 14 Nick Neri, 23 John Gula, Cody Johnson and Jesus Rios raced as temp members and received no points although both put in great efforts all weekend. For the Cadet class Florida racers also had a good showing with Stars of Karting point standing being 14 Derek Sobel, 16 Ian Tilbor with Dominic Tesorro racing as a Stars temp member with no points awarded.

Will Stars of Karting come back to Florida next year, we’ll have to wait and see. It was great event that had the weather been better I'm sure would have done a great job promoting karting here in Florida.

Pictured above is of Sundays Stars of Karting race with John Gula and Cody Johnson on track.