Prodigy David upsets Asian junior champ

Racing prodigy Zach David upended Asian junior champion Bianca Bustamante and top Japanese entries in the rain-drenched second leg of the 2019 Petron Blaze 100 ROK GP Super Karting Series at Clark International Speedway kart track recently.

The 10-year-old David topped 21-lap Round 3 in 20:25.698, a good 4.683 seconds clear of Bustamante and 4.931 ahead of Japanese veteran Hisachi Kobayashi.

Another Japanese, Ayato Iwasaki, topped the next day’s two qualifying heats before duplicating David’s victory in the combined-race final of the ROK GP Blaze 100 class in Round 4 with a much-faster clocking of 16:59.000 in the dry track.