Holeshot Drive Systems Senior Max Saturday Report
As we see with every visit to the Musselman Honda Circuit, the Senior Max category came down to the wire with Phil DeLaO sliding through for
the first official session of the season, with Mason Marotta (Tony Kart) holding the provisional pole position from the opening group. His time how
McKinney, driving an Overdrive Motorsprots Tony Kart. 2012 series champion DeLaO was able to better his time a lap later, posting a 51.033-la
the session, drivers began to hit pit lane to make the adjustments to find more speed to move up the order. Not many did, aside from Friday’s fast d
seventh. McKinney ended up second with Roger Ralston Jr. putting two KartSport North America Arrow’s in to the top three. eKartingNews.com Ta
Kart) improved his position from Friday practice, advancing up to fourth in the final qualifying order with defending series champion Phillip Arscot
The 31-driver Senior Max field hit the track for their 17-lap Prefinal, with DeLaO leading the entire way. From the green flag, the former cha
pulling out to a 2.1-second advantage at the checkered flag. Ralston jumped to second at the start, and was able to hold on at the stripe. Behind
up to third on the opening lap, but dropped to fifth with the rookie McKinney fighting through for the third spot. Pagano ran fourth until finally takin
down Ralston, but ran out of time to make a move at the end. McKinney ran a close third with Jake Craig (Tony Kart) posting fast laps to move int
DeLaO led the field to the green flag for the 25-lap main event, but it would be Dallas Karting Complex pilot Pagano showing the way as they c
Craig worked past the former champ to hold the top spots over DeLaO with Matt Johnson (ART GP) up from eighth to fourth and Arscott fifth. Rals
the green and was shuffled out in turn one, dropping to tenth on the opening lap. The top three were able to get away from the field with Arscott up
By the halfway point, he was there and that’s when the shuffling began. DeLaO returned to the point, only to have Craig put himself into the lead fi
spot a few times, with DeLaO waiting for an opportunity. With two to go, he would get pressure from Arscott, as they swapped the third position, all
Pagano at the point on the final circuit, he went into defensive mode. Craig tried at turn five, but had the door shut. He came back again down t
as they hit the braking point. The two went deep into the corner, and drifted wide. This allowed both DeLaO and Arscott to slid past and steal the t
would score his first win in Tucson for the series, as Arscott scored a solid points day. Craig beat Pagano to the strip for the final podium spot, as
Phil DeLaO
Sr. Max
