Samuel Oram-Jones began his 2013 season in style last weekend (February 15-17), and immediately showed strong pace in the Winter Cup event at the South Garda circuit in Lonato, Italy – his first outing in the KF class, the highest level of karting in the world.
The 15-year-old has made the step up from KF3 to KF this year and will compete with Piers Sexton Racing.
Despite being the youngest in the class, Sammy went well in practice, finishing three out of the four Thursday practice sessions in the top-four.
Hopes were high heading into qualifying on Friday, but unfortunately a problem with the carburettor left him out of position.
Despite this, the Milton-Keynes based youngster fought back in the heats, ran over Friday and Saturday, and while he was taken out in heats 1 and 5, and failed to finish, he climbed up from 15th to fourth in the second heat and was on for a similar result in the third heat, but had to settle for 12th overall after he was again nudged off track.
One of the highlights of the weekend for him however, came in the fourth heat, when he drove through to third to claim the final rostrum spot and set the fastest lap.
Sammy’s speed was evident in the repachage too and despite a bad start, he came back from last to finish 15th, again setting a fastest lap.
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