Marcelo pulls off third straight sweep in karting
Cebuano race engineer Jed Neri and the Marcelo Racing Team prepared the stage for Marcelo’s stint here as they arrived a couple of days earlier. But the 15-year-old Marcelo barely had enough time for practice. He arrived Saturday morning as he had to attend to school exams the day before.
It took its toll. Marcelo finished only second to Javi Benitez in the qualifying time trials but he quickly got his groove going, wresting the lead from Benitez on the second lap.
Despite ignition problems, Marcelo won the hearts of the big Cebuano crowd as he coasted to victory in Heat 1 after closely trailing Vencer John Suba.
Then everything went smooth in the last two races where he controlled the tempo wire-to-wire, winning over Juha Turalba of R2R-Tuason Racing and
With the triumph, Marcelo further fortified his grip of solo leadership to stay on course for bid a back-to-back Karter of the Year award.
“It was a bit tough to arrive and drive. The
“But I’m happy everything went smooth for us, except for the ignition problem that kept cutting the Revs to 10,000 instead of the usual 13,400 RPMs in Race 1. And I’m thankful that the Marcelo Racing crew straight away resolved the problem,” he added.
The exams forced Stefano to forego his stint in
It will be another uphill climb as his father John Marcelo and the crew will arrive ahead to set-up the kart for the Macau Race while Stefano will fly in Saturday morning going straight to the qualifying again.
“The exams are my priorities for now as a student of Britiah School Manila. I’m looking forward to a back-to-back Asian Karting championship. Both the
“But at least I’ll get a good rest, do adjustments on the kart and work on other aspects where I have to improve on,” he added.
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