Yamaha Japan Trip For Sprint Nats Class Winner

KARTSPORT NEW ZEALAND
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* 2009 KartSport New Zealand National Sprint Championships
Hamilton Kart Club
RV Wholesale Supplies Raceway
Airport Rd
Hamilton
Sat-Sun
April 11-12
2009

PREVIEW #1

13-03-09

Yamaha Japan Trip For Sprint Nats Class Winner

The countdown has begun for this year's KartSport New Zealand National Sprint Championship meeting at Hamilton over the Easter weekend with confirmation that Yamaha Motor New Zealand has again offered a trip to a major meeting in Japan to the winner of the Senior 100cc Yamaha Light title.

This is the fourth year the company has offered the prize with Christchurch's Matthew Hamilton the winner in 2006, Hamilton's Mathew Wooding in 2007 and Wellington's Karl Wilson in 2008

This year's Sprint Nationals are being hosted by the Hamilton Kart Club at its RV Wholesale Supplies Raceway, Airport Rd, Hamilton from Friday April 10 to Sunday April 12.

The winner of the 100cc Yamaha Light title at the Easter meeting will again join two drivers from Australia as international guests at the 33rd Toyota All-Japan Kart SL meeting in Japan in October.

The meeting is held each year at the Sugo West kart track which is part of the Yamaha-owned Sugo Sportsland motorsport complex near the city of Sendai. This year it will be held over the October 3-4 weekend.

Included in the package which goes to the winner of the Senior 100cc Yamaha Light class at the KartSport New Zealand National Sprint Championship meeting at Hamilton are airfares, accommodation, transport to and from Sendai for the driver and a mechanic, plus the use of a race-prepared Yamaha KT100-engined kart.

The Toyota All-Japan Kart SL meeting pits top Yamaha-category karters from all over Japan against invited drivers from Asia, Australia and New Zealand. And the prospect of a trip to Japan has certainly proved an incentive to karters here, with the Senior 100cc Yamaha Light class one of the best supported at the annual Sprint Nationals meeting for the past four years.

This year KartSport New Zealand celebrates 50 years of KartSport in New Zealand, 1959-2009.

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