Adam won both of Saturday's heats, fractionally ahead of Foster. Come Sunday, and some changes to Foster's kart added some speed, the Master Karting driver winning the third heat and pre-final - but only just, with Hughes right behind and a consistent Kawitzki right there too.

The final was pretty straight forward for Hughes, leading into turn one and never headed. Foster was soon out of the equation, seizing at the end of the opening lap. "It felt sluggish at the start when he (Hughes) jumped me" Foster said.

Victorians Sarron Caddy and Mark Domaschenz filled the podium, Domaschenz having started last after a pre-final crash. Queensland's Adam Mercer (KOSMIC) enjoyed his best result of the day with 4th while Reece Kawitzki's consistent run came to an end with a DNF.

1 Adam Hughes (Kosmic)
2 Sarron Caddy (Azzurro)
3 Mark Domaschenz (Kosmos)
4 Adam Mercer (Kosmic)
5 Aaron Ivermee (BRM)

Above: Adam Hughes atop the F100 Light podium
pic - Ash Budd, photowagon.com.au

1st F100 Heavy - Remo Luciani - KOSMIC / IAME / MG TYRES
At the same venue he won his first Australian Karting Championship, Remo Luciani has wrapped up what could quite possibly be his 7th and last national title.

Almost twenty years (and, as Remo put it, another 20 kilos!) after he won his first Australian karting championship (1992, International 100cc Light aboard PCR/Atomik), Remo decided to give the modern day equivalent of the class (Formula 100) a crack.

"I won my fist nationals when I was thirty and I've won my last one at 50" he said. So is this the end for Remo, 7 National Championships? "Well, let's be realistic - I am 50 years old!"

Above: A seventh Australian Championship for karting veteran Remo Luciani. "This win didn't just happen, I made it happen" Remo told karting.net.au "I've always said that you only get out of things what you get put into them. While everyone else was at home watching Bathurst, Formula One and the Moto GP over the past few weeks I've been here doing laps all day long to get myself ready for this weekend."
pic - Ash Budd, photowagon.com.au

Having enjoyed a trouble free Saturday, and surprised how easily he was able to drive away from the competition, Luciani seized his Formula A spec IAME when a mechanical mix-up saw him start the morning warmup with a loose spark plug. To compound the dramas, he was hit after seizing, bending a stub axle. "The bloke upstairs is making me earn it" Remo sweated as he feverishly worked on the kart to make heat three, switching to his back-up engine, which was built to ICA spec and about 2hp down on his primary motor.

Not that you'd have noticed, as he cleared away to win all the remaining races. The interest was in the battles for second place which eventually went to Dominic Albanese ahead of Matthew Mills, Zane Wyatt and former top-level junior, Michael Hazelton, who recovered to 5th after spinning out of the pre-final.

1 Remo Luciani (Kosmic)
2 Dominic Albanese (BRM)
3 Matthew Mills (First Kart)
4 Zane Wyatt (Arrow)
5 Michael Hazelton (CRG)

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