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Masters
Cambrian Go-Karts Masters Max
Saturday Report
As he did throughout Friday, John Crow showed the way in the
Masters Max qualifying session. Paul Bonilla (Tony Kart) paced
the field on the opening laps, before Crow (Birel) moved to the
pole position on his fourth circuit with a 52.238-second lap. Bonil-
la settled for second, only 17 thousandths off his time. Canadian
Christopher Patterson (Tony Kart) and Joey McGuire (Birel) made
a late charge, dropping former champion Scott Falcone (Kosmic)
down from third to fifth.
By far the best Prefinal of the day was in the Masters Max cate-
gory, Only three drivers led during the 16-lap event, but it seemed
like nearly everyone in the top-eight held time at the point. Crow
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led early with Patterson up into second, dropping Bonilla to third. Falcone was on the charge, taking over the lead before Bonilla took his
turn. Every lap, the order was always changing as the drivers drove hard, but very respectable. Falcone led the majority of the second
half of the race until two laps to go when he came out of turn four, and the engine went flat. It dropped him back to fourth but he was
quickly into second as they began the final lap. Bonilla saw Falcone dive deep inside at the end of the straight, and Falcone slid way
wide, allowing Bonilla to slip back through and go on to score the win. Crow ended up second with McGuire third, Patterson fourth and
Ken Maxfield (Arrow) in fifth as Falcone ended up eighth.
Troubles continued for Falcone as he fell back to 15th when a driver spun in front of him on the opening circuit, forcing him to take
evasive action. Up front, Bonilla retained the lead from the pole position with Crow second and McGuire third. They along with Maxfield
pulled away from the rest of the group. Nothing changed until lap 13 when McGuire took over the second spot. All four were evenly
matched, unable to gain on inch on another. After 25 laps, Bonilla scored the first victory of the season. McGuire crossed the line in
second, but was disqualified for a carburetor issue. That promoted Crow to second and landed Maxfield the third step on the podium.
Falcone, the quickest driver on the track, managed to drive his way up to the fourth spot with Middleton in fifth.