Hassan, Al Alawi shine in Bahrain Karting Sprint Championship

Manama : Hussain Hassan and Nasser Al Alawi were the big winners in the latest edition of the Bahrain Karting Sprint Championship (BKSC), held this past weekend at Bahrain International Karting Circuit (BIKC) in Sakhir.

Hassan won round three of the 2016/2017 Bahrain Rotax Mojo Max Challenge (BRMMC), while Al Alawi triumphed in round five of the 2016/2017 Bahrain SWS Sprint Championship (SSWS) along BIKC’s 1.414-kilometre Commission Internationale de Karting (CIK) Track.

In the BRMMC category exclusively for Rotax kart owners, Hassan was in fine form from the early going. He topped the timesheet in qualifying before winning the Pre-Final to secure pole for the deciding sprint.

Hassan (14 minutes 25.997 seconds) quickly started from where he left off and maintained his lead throughout the 15-lap Final to take the chequered flag, with Abdulla Al Thawadi (+2.725) in second place and Mohammed Mattar (+2.815) completing the podium placers.

All three top finishers were a part of the Max class, which also featured Ali Baslar and Khalied Alsaei, who were finished fourth and fifth places, respectively.

Meanwhile, winning their race categories were Luca Santiago and Anthony Genocchio. Luca claimed first place in the Junior Max class ahead of Sulaiman Alkanderi, Anas Lecaillon and Alexander Bekkers. Genocchio, on the other hand, won the Max Masters as the category’s lone competitor.

In the SSWS, Al Alawi (18:02.442) topped a field of 19 other karters to win the 15-lap Final and couldn’t have been engaged in a tighter battle, as only (+0.080) separated him from runner-up with Ahmed Ebrahim (+0.218) off the pace in third. Rashid Khalifa (+0.517) and Mohammed Ameen (+0.524) completed the top five and within a half-second of the winner and rounding out the top eight in the final classification were Mohammed Jalal, Khalid Alwazzan and Bader Mubarak.

Following the third round of the BRMMC, Hassan leapfrogged Mattar (80 points) to the number one spot on the Max category, with Mattar (79) second and Alsaei (60) in third.