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maltatoday, WEDNESDAY, 1 APRIL 2015 Sport 23 Answers to the MaltaToday crossword will be published next Wednesday WEATHER: Fine VISIBILITY: Good WIND: Northwest force 6 locally force 6 to 7 SEA: Rough becoming rough to very rough SWELL: Low Northwesterly becoming Westerly SEA TEMP: 15 °C A B C D E F G H 8 7 6 5 4 3 2 1 White to play and mate in four moves A B C D E F G H 8 7 6 5 4 3 2 1 Last week's solution Sudoku rules are extremely easy: Fill all empty squares so that the numbers 1 to 9 appear once in each row, column and 9x9 box. PARTLY CLOUDY 19 º C / 14 º C UV INDEX: 2 Today's Weather Chess Sudoku Pursuits MOTORSPORTS Across 1. Singer of folk music (4,6) 6. Burrowing rodent (6) 7. Group of three persons (4) 10. Secret agents (5) 11. Short literary composition (5) 12. Sailor (3) 13. Freedom from war (5) 14. Poles (5) 16. Western pact (4) 18. Packet (6) 19. Hostile (10) Down 1. Armed strongholds (5) 2. Grease (9) 3. Unmarried woman (8) 4. Acquire (3) 5. Consecrated (4) 8. Started again (9) 9. Convince (8) 13. Football kick (4) 15. Resembling the sun (5) 17. Not on (3) Qxc7 Be7 Qc8+ Bd8 Re1 Kf8 Qxd8+ Ne8 Qxe8# (Rxe8#) First round of Malta's Drifting Championship 2015 a success A lovely sunny wintery day has set the perfect athomosphere for an exciting day! We have seen 10 driv- ers in total taking part, 5 of them in the street legal category and 5 in the Pro category! The day has started with some free practice where all drivers had the opportunity to get to grips with the track which was set up. Driv- ers familiarised themselves with the track and through the training mastered the techniques needed for this particular track. After the drivers were briefed, the qualify- ings started where each and every driver had 3 judged runs, and were given points based on line, clipping zones, angle, speed and style! In the Streetlegal category we have seen Dorian Galea the 'Animal' as he calls himself and is now called between his friends and drivers qualify 1st with an amazing 3 iden- tical runs, Marisa Grixti our female drifter qualifying 2nd, Matthew Az- zoppardi who has recently started again after tuning his car qualifying 3rd, George Muscat who is under observation to go to Pro Category qualifying 4th and Carmelo Zam- mit who is one of our newbies quali- fying 5th. For the finals; we have had a few drivers feeling the tension and stress leading them to mistakes which they have been penalised for, and the fi- nal results were as follows: 1st place - Dorian Galea, 2nd place - Matthew Azzoppardi, 3rd place George Mus- cat, 4th place - Marisa Grixti and 5th place - Carmelo Zammit. For the Pro category we had An- drea Fabri for the first year in the pro category as top qualifyer with 3 spectecular runs with his own amazing style, Christian Borg quali- fying 2nd with his 3 identical runs as he usually does with his consist- ency, Brian Mifsud with his BMW qualifying 3rd, 4th place with his Toyota Kurt Grima and Frank Spi- teri qualifying 5th with his RX7. We have then seen Kurt Grima batteling with Frank Spiteri, Kurt passes and battles again against An- drea Fabri. Unfortunately Kurt spins and both cars come bonnet to bon- net! We could see lots of emotions from the croud of people as they bumped into each other! Everyone was surrounded with Kurts car as its in immaculate condition and also vintage! It was then time for Brian Mifsud to battle against Christian Borg, however unfortuantely Chris- tian was given the 5 minute rule as he had some problems with the car, but didnt manage to make it on time. It was then time for the final battle between Fabri and Brian where we have seen a one more time for the judges to decide the outcome! Final results were: 1st position An- drea Fabri, 2nd position Brian Mif- sud and 3rd position Kurt Grima! We have seen a very good level of Drifting with the overall level al- ways imporving and new members always joining in!! We will be seeing more drivers taking part very soon as we have had a large number of drivers still finalising their cars! Last but not least on behalf of all the drivers, we would like to say thank you to the 3 judges Adrian Figallo, Joseph Galea and Marvin Cortis. Such a brilliant event would not happen without the time, dedi- cation and support of everyone in- volved. The Next event is going to be held on 31st March: MDRA for Char- ity! Join us in Hal Far raceway from 8.00am onwards! Drift rides are also going to be available for those who want to try a ride in one of these cars and feel the adrenaline rush!! Malta Drifting Association has held the first round for the Malta's Drifting Championship 2015 From the left: Street legal category: Matthew Azzpordi 2nd place, Dorian Galea 1st place, George Muscat 3rd place, Pro Category: Brian Mifsud 2nd place, Andrea Fabri 1st place, Kurt Grima 3rd place