Bermuda Motocross Club season resumed at the Southside Moto Sports Park.
Reminton Boden won the Pee Wee Division on the day, with Kody Paul winning the 50cc Class. Mazaii Tucker won the 65cc Class, A’jahni Foggo won the 85cc Class, and Nyla Goodchild won the 85cc Ladies Division.
Aiden Simmons won the Novice Class, Aaron Cannonier claimed the win in the Over 30’s Class, and Allan DeGraff won the Expert Class.
Expert Class
1. Allan Degraff 2. Zico Majors 3. Preston Martins
Scott Barnes would conclude competing in the 2024 Florida Winter Tour - Round 3, and he would stand on top of the podium at the conclusion.
Barnes would take to the track on the final day for Warm Up Race in the ROK Shifter Masters FWT Class, Barnes would finish 2nd with a 6 lap time of 5:16.32.
Barnes’ strong performance in the competition continued when he won the Final race clocking a 20-lap time of 17:21.26, finishing more than five seconds ahead of the second-placed finisher Jose Montalto.
Saturday, March 16, 2024
Barnes Wins Three Races in Orlando
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Scott Barnes began competing in the 2024 Florida Winter Tour - Round 3.
Barnes would take to the track for Practice Round in the ROK Shifter Masters FWT Class, Barnes would finish 6 with a 5 lap time of 4:28.70.
Barnes would win the First Heat of the Day in the Class clocking a 12-lap time of 10:32.69, he would finish more than two seconds ahead of the second-place finisher Charlie Fonseca.
Barnes would repeat the position in the Second Heat of the day this time clocking a 12-lap time of 10:34.90, this time he was more than four seconds ahead of the second-place finisher Jose Montalto.
Barnes’ strong performance day continued when he won the Pre-Final race clocking a 14-lap time of 12:24.37, again finishing more than two seconds ahead of the second-placed finisher Luis Gautier.
Barnes said, “We laid down over 50 laps of racing today here in Orlando, we led every lap but one. This Maranello Kart USA Kart is on rails and the Carblos Racing Engines motor is rocking.”
Friday, March 15, 2024
Barnes Concludes 2024 Florida Winter Tour Practice Rounds
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Scott Barnes is in Orlando preparing for the 2024 Florida Winter Tour - Round 3.
Barnes would take to the track for Practice Rounds in the ROK Shifter Masters FWT Class.
After missing the first day of practice, Barnes had a midnight flight out of Denver, landing at 6:30 am in Orlando, going straight to track, and putting the Maranello Kart USA Kart to the test finishing 4th in Practice Race Three clocking a six-lap time of 5:40.14.
In the second Practice Race of the day and the Fourth Practice Race, Barnes finished 8th clocking a 7-lap time of 6:09.64.
Thursday, March 14, 2024
Bermuda Riders Compete in Daytona Supercross
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Five Bermuda riders competed in the Ricky Carmichael Amateur Supercross in Daytona, Aaron Cannonier competed in the veteran 30 B/C Class, Kai’Jun Simons competed in the College Boy’s Class, while Jazuri Thompson competed in the 125cc, and 250cc Junior Class, Jazai Thompson competed in the 85cc Limited Class, and King Clarke competed in the 7/8 Age Group 51cc Class.
Thunder and lightning storms in the area affected the race schedule, caused a delay in the event, all the participants were given 2 practice laps and then it was straight to their main events.
Cannonier had a tough race after picking a bad gate, with the track conditions Canonier crashed twice pushing him outside the top 10, as he had to settle for 13th in his main event.
With a rough start, Simons came off the gate in the back of the pack, he managed to charge through the pack in brutal conditions finishing 13th, Simons was confident that he would have finished an easy top 10 had he gotten a better start.
Jazuri Thompson in the 12cc Class got the last gate pick making it hard for him to get out front with the pack. Thompson started in 13th place in the class and was making his way up the field when a rider went down in front of him causing him to crash. Thompson was quickly back on the bike and pushed through the pack to finish 9th. In the 250cc Class, Thompson got a much better start, riding in 6th place for most of the race, however, he couldn’t hold onto the end eventually finishing 8th out of 29 riders.
Jazai Thompson took to a rough track and he struggled to get around, but he never came off the bike eventually finishing 25th.
Clarke was the youngest competitor also had a bad start, but managed to make his way into 13th place, however he got caught up in a pile up on the wall jump, he managed to keep his position after he got up fast and got going. Later in the race Clarke went down on the final lap just before the finish causing him a few position as he had trouble getting his bike up, he would cross the line in 19th.