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maltatoday WEDNESDAY 8 NOVEMBER 2017 Sport 22 MOTORSPORTS ASMK Enduro WOTOMOTO season ON Sunday 12 November 2017 ASMK will be opening the National 2017-2018 Enduro Championship sponsored by WotoMoto. The Enduro Championship will be spread over six events where five rac- es will be held in Malta and one race will be held in Gozo. This season will again be sup- ported by several quarry own- ers around Malta and Gozo who allow our activities to be held in their premises for the Enduro Motorcyclists. Yet the first event will be held at the ASMK Sports Complex at Ta' Qali. The program starts at 10:00 am. The firm Dunlop Tyres of Malta will again be donating an Enduro tyre to the Overall winner of each event during this season. This season will be seeing a new class where the expert riders compete in a class on their own while the less experienced will be grouped in another class where they stand a better chance to reg- ister a Class win. For this sea- son ASMK has invested in a new Timing equipment where all motorcycle Lap times will be controlled by the profes- sional MyLaps timing system and will be used in all ASMK events. This investment was made possible thanks to the Good Causes Fund and the Maltese Olympic Committee who have made it possible to the Association to purchase this system. Meanwhile on Sunday 5th November ASMK opened the Autocross cars championship again sponsored by ASMK & Pasta Poiatti for the National Autocross Championship 2017/2018. For the first activ- ity 20 cars were registered and were divided into two classes. A look into the day's program in the Modified class we saw Jean Paul Grech on a Peugeot 106 and Gordon Johnson on his Opel Corsa dominate the Heats of the day and won the highest score of the day which was also recorded by the new MyLaps Timing system. To- gether with Grech and John- son Vince Farrugia on Volk- swagen Polo, the Opel Corsa of Jonathan Camilleri, Karl Micallef on Ford Fiesta and the Fiat of Noel Zammit also qualified for the Class A Fi- nals. Right from the start of this fi- nal Farrugia followed by Grech and Johnson made a very good launch. After the second Lap Johnson made use of the Joker Lap and managed to remain in his placing but after the third Lap Grech also made use of the Joker Lap and ended leading ahead of Johnson and Farrugia. Grech defended his placing until the end and fin- ish winning the first Auto- cross event. He was followed by Johnson and Zammit as fourth placed driver now be- longed to Farrugia ahead of Micallef who finished in fifth place. Camilleri is sixth fol- PHOTOGRAPHY BY MARIO MICALLEF