Albany City Kart Club salute 2024 season with annual Zac Hamment and Ross Manley memorial races

The Albany City Kart Club gathered on Sunday for the final races of the year and to pay homage to former club members in the annual Zac Hamment and Ross Manley memorial races. The club runs both races annually, and this year celebrated 15 years of the Ross Manley Memorial, in which senior clubman drivers compete, while the Zac Hamment Memorial is for cadet 9s. Jake Jurgielewicz won the Ross Manley Memorial trophy after defeating 10 other drivers. Despite being only one driver in the Zac Hamment Memorial race, Mack Edwards still ripped a few hot laps around the track as the club honoured the occasion for the family. Race sponsor Steven Panizza from Auto One Albany said the event was a brilliant occasion to salute the season. Panizza competed in his uncle Ross’ original kart as part of the memorial. “They’re memorial races we hold — a great way to cap off the season,” he said. “They’re races in memory of those two club members and it’s something we’ve always done.” In the final meeting of the season, Jurgielewicz also claimed overall victory in the senior Yamaha class and Edwards was top of the cadet 9 division. Brock Kinnear beat Ben Keen and Jack Panizza in the cadet 12 category, while William Panizza claimed the KA3 junior class from Alex Hills and Lolavie Burns. In the tag 125 light division, Shane Burns topped the points from Harry Burns and Ruairidh Avern.