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| July 03, 2009 |
| Driver News: Devlin DeFrancesco - June Report |
 | DeFrancesco and teammate Cole Glasson at the CKI New Jersey Grand Prix
(Photo: On Track Promotions - otp.ca) |
Devlin DeFrancesco will kick off the month of July by returning home to Canada for race seven with the Toronto Racing Association of Karters. Working on his qualifying status for the Canadian National Championship at the same track early in August, DeFrancesco will be at Goodwood Kartways racing both Micro-Max and Novice on Saturday.
The nine-year-old raced a pair of events in June, both on the South side of the Canadian border. The month began with races three and four of the Rotax Max Challenge South Florida, and last weekend he and DeFrancesco Racing were in Millville, New Jersey, for the second event of the Championship Karting International series. Racing in Cadet as the team continues to experiment with Comer power, DeFrancesco qualified ninth on Friday and gradually worked his way forward on day two. After finishing eighth in Heat One, he was seventh in Heat Two and fifth in Heat Three when he set his best lap of the weekend. The three-race total led to a qualifying position tied for sixth in a fifteen-kart field, but sadly all the hard work would be for naught when a seized engine on the warm-up lap of the prefinal ended his action early on Sunday.
In early June things went far better as DeFrancesco raced at his home track in Homestead and climbed the podium both days racing for Alonso Kart USA. The weekend began with P3 from qualifying for race three, and DeFrancesco advanced to second in the prefinal to start off-pole in the feature. After a great opening, he took the lead and held it to half distance before dropping to second for the back-half of the race and finishing there. A driving penalty dropped him a step on the podium, the same one he’d take on Sunday in much different fashion. After qualifying fifth on a changed layout for race four, DeFrancesco was fourth after the opening pair of laps of the prefinal but was knocked backward in a twelve-kart field on lap three and had to endure the rest of the way with a warped nose cone. It meant for work starting eighth in the final, but the nine-year-old was up to the task. Already seventh through one lap, DeFrancesco took another pair on two and did the same again on seven to move into podium position. By then the lead pair were gone, and he took third with his best lap of the day on the time charts. Despite missing race two, DeFrancesco sits fourth in the championship with 515 points, just 62 shy of second place.
For more information on Devlin DeFrancesco and Alonso Kart USA, please visit http://www.devlindefrancesco.com and http://www.alonsokartusa.com
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