Media EC SK Magny Cours 09 racereport a&f

RACE REPORT: BENNETT’S WINNING DOUBLE. Gavin Bennett (Anderson-FPE) from Great Britain made the perfect start in his bid to regain the European Superkart Championship. Starting from the 2nd row he had some good fortune in race 1 when pole sitter Peter Elkmann (MS Kart-Yamaha) of Germany was involved in contact on t hres t turn and dropped back to 9th place. Bennett, chas-ing fellow Brit Lee Harpham (Anderson-FPE) then inherited the lead shortly after the half race distance when Harpham suffered a broken ignition trigger bracket.Reigning Champion Elkmann fought back strongly and battled with Frenchman Damien Payart (PVP-FPE) as they both gave chase to Bennett. But the 2007 Champion had 3.351 seconds to spare when he took the chequered  ag from Payart 2nd and Elkmann 3rd. John Riley (Anderson-Rotax) starting in 26th place after a dreadful qualifying session came strongly through the  eld to nish 4th. Malcolm Crowe (Anderson-FPE) was almost as impressive going from 25th to 6th. Marcel Maasmann (MS Kart-VM) con- rmed his status as the top Dutch Superkart driver with an excellent 8th place.Less fortunate were Mark Owens (ADE-DEA) who started on the front row but went out on the 2nd lap with main bearing failing. Thomas Johansson (Anderson-FPE) of Sweden was going well when his race was halted by mechanical failure with just one lap to go. Carlo Chermaz (PVP-PVP) from Brisbane, Aus-tralia had a most creditable 13th place on his European Championship debut. ...