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maltatoday WEDNESDAY 1 NOVEMBER 2017 Sport 23 MOTORSPORTS Answers to the MaltaToday crossword will be published next Wednesday WEATHER: Partly to rather cloudy with the possibility of some isolated showers becoming mostly cloudy with showers, locally thundery and gusty at times VISIBILITY: Good except in showers WIND: East to Northeast force 2 to 3, locally force 3 to 4, veering East Southeast SEA: Slight to moderate becoming slight Swell: Low confused becoming negligible 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. WINDY 22 º C /16 º C UV INDEX: 6 Today's Weather Chess Sudoku Pursuits Across 1. Carry on a legal prosecution 8. Summed 9. Growl angrily 10. Evening meal 12. Duct for smoke 14. Additional 15. Intense dislike 17. Language 18. Pertaining to a particular place 20. Carry Down 2. Slender bar 3. Capital of New South Wales 4. Snug 5. Film excerpt 6. Fax 7. Northumberland town 11. Associate 13. Ride at full speed 16. Before long 19. Automobile Qd8 d4 (Rc7 or Rd7) Rb6# (or Qd6#) .... Rc7 cxxd5# (or Qd6# or Qxd5#) .... Rd7 Qb6# Autocross 'Joker Lap' next Sunday at Ta' Qali ON Sunday 5th November 2017 Assocjazzjoni Sport Muturi u Karozzi (ASMK) will be opening the 2017/2018 Autocross Championship season of the ASMK Pasta Poiatti. The Section for the Autocross cars will again have two classes, that for Standard cars and another for the Modified cars. Dur- ing this season ASMK will be introducing a new lap on the track, called The Joker Lap. The Joker Lap system is be- ing introduced for the first time in Autocross racing as it gives the drivers the op- portunity to improve their position along the 5 Laps race and further increase the attention of the spectators to particular drivers abilities. The Sunday 5th November program is scheduled to start at noon. Meanwhile during last week ASMK held two more activi- ties. On Saturday afternoon at the Ballut Ltd quarry at t'Alla w'Ommu limits of Naxxar ASMK opened the 2017/2018 National Champi- onship for Trails bikes whilst on Sunday 29th October 2017 at Ta Qali ASMK opened the National Motocross Champi- onship 2017 / 2018. A look into the Motocross events day. 30 riders enrolled for the competition in one of the various four classes avail- able. In Class A, which is the elite class in Motocross, we saw young Kyle Camilleri on his KTM 250cc dominating the day. Camilleri managed to win the qualif ying and the two Heats of the day. In the Final Ranking Camilleri was followed by Stefan Di- mech on a Honda 250cc and by David Dimech on a Honda 450cc. In Class B we saw James Zahra on a Sherco 300cc bike who dominated the whole day in his Class B. Brandon Slowe followed in 2nd place on his Honda 250cc bike while Bernard Sammut on his 250cc Beta closed the day in third place. In Class C Christopher Hartman on a KTM 150cc along with Daniel Inguanez on 250cc Honda dominated this class. But it was Hart- man who registered the Class C win as earlier in the day Inguanez was forced to miss one of the Heats and had to content himself with a decent second place in Class C. In the Veterans Class where older Motocross riders com- pete and challenge for the lead was mainly between Paul Deguara on a KTM 250cc and William Sant on a Honda 250cc. During the day Deguara and Sant each won one of the two Heats on the day but Deguara was declared winner of this class to Sant in 2nd place. Third place finisher was Jethro Sant on his Yamaha 250cc. On the launching day for Trials Motorcycles Class A seven competitors were reg- istered. Here we saw cous- ins Damon Bonello on a Gas Gas and Rowen Bonello on a Beta were in real compe- tition to Antonio Leonardi from Sicily on his Gas Gas motorcycle. During the day we saw Leonardi dominate the sections so far along with Damon Bonello but Antonio gained some penalty points in section five which resulted him to loose his 2nd place to Damon Bonello. Damon held his lead to the last sec- tion and was declared winner of the day. Antonio Leonardi and Rowen Bonello finished in 2nd and 3rd places respec- tively. Fourth place finisher was Joseph Scicluna on a Gas Gas motorcycle. Meanwhile the first Auto- cross races are scheduled for Sunday 5th November at Ta Qali Sport Complex at noon. The 2nd Trials event is sched- uled to be held on Saturday 18th November 2017 while another Motocross event is scheduled to take place on 19th November 2017. Further information can be found on the website of the Asso- ciation or www.asmk.org.mt, on Facebook pages named ASMK Malta, and Assocjazz- joni Sport Muturi u Karozzi. One can also make contact by email on:- info@asmk.org.mt PHOTOGRAPHY BY MARIO MICALLEF