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maltatoday | WEDNESDAY • 19 DECEMBER 2018 22 SPORTS MOTORSPORT DAVID Latham and Philippe Falle on Seawolf of South- ampton skippered the Prona- via 38 to victory at the annual Raymarine Double Handed Race organised by the Royal Malta Yacht Club. A fleet of eighteen boats start- ed the two-man race on Satur- day 1 December with a forecast of light winds, so much so that Race Officer Peter Dimech de- cided to shorten the course to a figure of eight around Comino. Setting off at 8am the fleet was hit by a forceful squall and heavy rain which caused a degree of disarray on a number of boats. The blustery conditions con- tinued with winds up to thirty knots to the south of Malta followed by a violent thunder- storm that engulfed the back markers in the fleet resulting in several retirements. The later part of the race re- warded the brave with fairer winds and clearing skies to see the finishers' crossing the line in daylight. The first boat to cross the fin- ish line was the First 45 Elu- sive 2 skippered by Aaron and Christoph Podesta, however in the end it was the Latham/ Falle duo on Seawolf, who, on corrected time, took victory in their Class as well as the cov- eted overall winner's trophy, etching their names in the his- tory of the race. Last year's winners Jamie Sammut and John Cachia rac- ing on the Solaris 45 Unica, at- tempted a repeat performance and kept pushing till the end. Despite a wrap on the spinna- ker at the end, the Sammut/ Cachia duo managed a Class win. A prize-giving evening was held at the Royal Malta Yacht Club in the presence of crews, members and friends. Chris- tian Ripard of RLR Yachting, agents of Raymarine in Malta presented prizes to the win- ners. Seawolf of Southampton etches name on Raymarine Double Handed Figure of Eight trophy SAILING Raymarine Double Handed Figure of Eight Results Overall & IRC Class 2 1st Place – Seawolf of Southampton (Dave Latham / Philippe Falle) 2nd Place - Escape (Georges Bonello Dupuis / Dennis Gatt) 3rd Place - Fast Forward (Mark Vassallo / David Anastasi) IRC Class 1 1st Place – Unica (Jamie Sammut / John Cachia) 2nd Place – Elusive 2 (Aaron Podesta / Christoph Podesta) 3rd Place – Xpresso (Sean Borg / Matthew Agius Delicata) RMYC Club Cruisers 1st Place - Velina (Paulo Giummara / Gaetano Salafia) 2nd Place – Waki Waki (Tom Bonello Ghio / Tom Sammut Alessi) 3rd Place – Gioia (Anthony Miggiani / Karl Miggiani) THIS Sunday the Assoċjazzjoni Sport Muturi u Karozzi will be organising the special Motorsport event held every year during Christmas-time. As in pre- vious years the event is being organised to raise funds for L-Istrina. In this 25th edition of this event the programme of the day will include the Autocross section with their second event of the 2018/2019 National Autocross Cham- pionship by ASMK and Pasta Poiatti. Also the Motocross Motorcycles will compete in a Fun Race. The day's pro- gramme starts at 8am with motorcy- cles while the cars races follow from 10am. The programme is expected to come to an end with the Cars Demoli- tion Derby beginning at about 3pm. Although the Demolition competi- tors are finding it very difficult to buy old cars for L-Istrina event of Demoli- tion which is held once a year. 30 com- petitors registered for this competition while being busy preparing their cars for this event. This edition will see 11 new competi- tors while the regular drivers amount to 19 who will all take part in this game. Just when the number of new competi- tors be more than a third of the lot this makes it more difficult to forecast who the Winner and Runner Up will be. Although car crashing is the role of this game the participating drivers have special safety rules that have to be observed to protect the safety and health of all drivers on track. The pre- ventive rules for this game in the past have been respected by all drivers till the very end of the Demolition Derby. Meanwhile, the Association takes all the necessary precautions for the safe- ty of all participants. All cars will be inspected for safety on Saturday and prior to the start of the event too. Meanwhile on Sunday 16th Decem- ber the Association was very busy pre- paring and organising the 1st Moto Enduro event during a special compe- tition held at Ta' Qali Sports Complex as the winner of this Enduro race will be presented with a brand new BETA motorcycle by the firm WotoMoto and to use during all racing of the National 2018/2019 Championship and do all the training sessions too. The results of this Enduro race are: The Class A and Overall winner is Bernard Sammut who raced on his Husqvarna 300 and covered the five kilometer track in 6 minutes 31.829 seconds. Carmelo Borg on a Honda 450 motorcycle followed Bernard with timed runs in 6 minutes 51.412 sec- onds. Third place finisher is Matthew Gauci on a Beta 300 with his best time of 6 minutes 58.593 seconds. In Class B, Daniel Borg on a Beta 350 won this class with a timed runs of 7 minutes 29.401 seconds while Andrew Cassar followed as Runner-Up on a KTM 300 with a time of 7 mins. 30.375 seconds. Aidan Camilleri on a KTM 300 finished in third place with his time of 7 mins. 41.746 seconds. Class C which had a number of new competitors taking part in this event was won by Luke Borg on a Kawasaki 250 motorcycle with a time of 8 minutes 4.439 seconds. Borg was followed by Kevin Calleja on a KTM 150cc motorcycle with timed laps of 8 minutes 26.077 seconds, Third place finisher is Kyle Stone on a KTM 250 motorcycle with time runs of 8 min- utes 30.423 seconds. The presentation of trophies follow- ing the event was conducted by the company WotoMoto Ltd. General Manager of BETA Motorcy- cles Neil Falzon confirmed that the BE- TA firm will again be sponsoring this WotoMoto Enduro Challenge Cham- pionship. Among cheers Falzon, for the second consecutive year, presented a brand new BETA RR 350 motorcy- cle to the second time winner young Bernard Sammut so he can compete in this new Championship and do all the training sessions on this Beta motorcy- cle for the coming year of competition. During the presentation Neil Falzon, General Manager of Wotomoto was also accompanied by Eddie Bonello, President of the Enduro races within ASMK. On behalf of the BETA motor- cycles Falzon presented the Brand New BETA RR 350 motorcycle to Bernard Sammut who won the event overall and also won his Class A. Falzon also presented a hamper to Carmelo Borg as Runner-Up in this hard competition while Matthew Gauci as third place finisher was presented with vouchers from the BETA firm. Falzon also thanked ASMK for the professional way the event was held and announced that his firm will be the main sponsor for the third edition of the WotoMoto Enduro Challenge 2019. More information and events results can also be found on the website of the Association www.asmk.org.mt and on the Facebook pages named A.S.M.K. Malta or Association Sport Motorcy- cles and Cars. One can make contact by email on info@asmk.org.mt ASMK 2018 Demolition Derby on Sunday