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Al Ain Raceway hosted the double header event ending the year 2016 for the Rotax Max Championship. Sodi Kart Racing Team was present at the track since Tuesday morning in order to prepare the two days of racing with his drivers.

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BAMBINO CLASS
It was again a good day for Enzo Pedraza finishing the three trials with P2, P5 and P5.
Enzo was involved in a small contact on Trial 1 which caused a penalty but was very focused on the remaining two trials and the final results brought a good P3 overall.
Good job for Enzo who is showing a consistent grow and he is looking for the upcoming Oman Round in order to confirm his good season.
Keep it up Enzo!

MICROMAX
Danny Shields was involved in an intensive week of practice and coaching as part of his first year of racing in a very competitive field like MicroMax.
Qualifying was bit tough for Danny placing the 7th best time and during Heat 1 some ups and downs forced him to finish on P9.
Prefinal was again difficult but Danny never gave up and finished P8.
Final started a bit better but Danny suffered an unfortunate contact which brought a penalty due to his front bumper down and the final result was p9.
Danny since the end of Round 4 was already focused for the day after with great hopes for a better result.

MINIMAX
Prajit Patel approached the 4th race of his career knowing that collecting experience was his main target and we were all happy with his dedication and attention on executing all the advices coming from the team.
P11 on qualifying and Heat 1
P10 on Prefinal and Final P13 which brought some good hopes considering his pace, improving after every race.
Good Job Prajit

JUNIOR MAX
Constantin Reisch aka “Tatin” came from a good week of testing and as usual despite some unfortunate circumstances, he never gave up and always tried to improving his performances during the race day.
Tatin was really disappointed for his P9 in Qualifying and he started the Heat knowing that his potential could have brought him on better positions and he finished the Heat on P8 despite the pace was not really what he was expecting.
Another difficult Pre Final with some mistakes but with the same will to achieve something better and he finished P7.
Final was tough but showed Tatin gaining some position and showing a good pace but a contact affected his front bumper causing an unavoidable penalty with a Final P10.
Tatin was very disappointed but fully determined for a better day on Saturday.
Bravo Tatin, good approach for the next race

DD2
Jose Borges was really confident and he started his day with a good P4 in qualifying despite only 4 laps done on track.
Tony Hogg (Brand Racing) finished P6 but with great hopes for a good day.
Marcus Lee Marker (Brand Racing) was at his very first experience in a difficult category like DD2 and his first qualifying session brought him in P7.
Heat 1 was really interesting with Jose P2 (best lap of the Heat) and Tony Hogg (Brand Racing) recovering some position and finishing P4 with the second best lap time. Marcus (Brand Racing) finished P5 confirming his good improvement in the DD2 class.
Great Prefinal for Tony Hogg (Brand Racing) who caught a brilliant P3 and Marcus (Brand Racing) who confirmed his apprentice job with a P5. Bad bad luck for Jose forced to retire due to an electrical issue at his engine.
Thrilling final with a good start for all the Sodi Drivers. Tony and Marcus (Brand Racing) showed a good pace and they finished respectively P3 and P4. With this result Tony Hogg (Brand Racing) secured also P3 in the master category.
Jose was doing a great recovering from the last position and sometimes it happens that a mistake might compromise your race and that was the case during lap 7. All team congratulated him anyway for his dedication and did an enormous job in order to make ready his kart for the day after.

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ROUND 5 Saturday 10 December 2016

MICROMAX
Danny deserve a special mention because during the whole day despite some issues kept always high his motivations and the whole team and parents supported him.
Qualifying was not really good with a P8 which was really disappointing but Danny approached Heat 1 with the same confidence but again his luck was somewhere else because he has been forced to retire.
Pre Final brought Danny to P8 looking for a good Final race and Danny was so focused on avoiding lot of contacts happened during the race keeping a good pace which brought a very well deserved P5!!
Great job Danny!!! Bravo!!!

MINIMAX
Another opportunity for Prajit to collect more experience and to improve his performance during Round 5.
Qualifying was not that lucky because the Team decided to bring Prajit back to the pit after one lap due to an evident technical issue and to avoid any problem on track; the decision was unavoidable in order to keep safe our and the other drivers.
Good Heat 1 with a good P8 and Pre Final that ended with a P11 but showing his gap going down and that made happy the whole team.
The Final race brought Prajit to P11 but with good hopes for his next race!
See you soon Prajit!!

JUNIOR MAX
Tatin was really determined to perform a great race on Saturday and the Qualifying session saw a good improvement with a P7 not so far from the drivers in from of him.
Heat 1 was good considering his pace but he finished P8 due to some mistakes but the Team knew that he was capable to reach better positions.
Unfortunately Pre Final saw Tatin getting a penalty for his front bumper so he started from the very last position during Final and this time even with not a good start he never stopped to chase the group and was very focused on avoiding mistakes and penalties and he finished with a good P5 which is bringing good points for the Championship!
The Team is proud of him and of his total dedication! Bravo!!!

DD2
New layout new day and new hopes for the Sodi Drivers who started with some ups and downs. Marcus Lee Marker (Brand Racing) caught a brilliant Pole Position confirming his huge improvement in the class. Jose Borges confirmed his P4 like day before and unfortunate qualifying session for Tony Hogg (Brand Racing) who finished P6.
Great job for all drivers on Heat 1 with Marcus (Brand Racing) P1, Tony (Brand Racing) P3 and Jose P4.
Pre Final confirmed the good shape of Marcus (Brand Racing) P1 and Tony (Brand Racing) P3 and a penalty brought only a P6 to Jose Borges but he showed a great pace.
Start of the final brought immediately Marcus (Brand Racing) on the lead meanwhile Tony (Brand Racing) and Jose were involved in a fantastic race showing their good skills in a very tough class like DD2.
Unfortunately Tony (Brand Racing) was involved in a incident who forced him to restart from last and finished P6.
Marcus (Brand Racing) dominated the Final winning with a good gap meanwhile Jose was protagonist of a great recovery and finished with a deserved P3 overall and P2 in Master DD2.
Excellent job and congratulations to all drivers.

Sodi Kart Middle East Racing Team would like to congratulate all winners, Teams and organizers for the fantastic event and allow us to wish a speed recovery to HARRY HANNAM involved in a dramatic crash on Friday but fortunately he his on his way to be back soon to the competitions and all the very best to CONNOR DONOVAN and his family for his new chapter and hope to see you soon here in the UAE.

Next RMC UAE event will be held at Muscat Speedway (Oman) on 6 & 7 January 2017.

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