Whichever way anyone had seen this years event it would say that it was a magnificent and very exciting race. Teddy Pons and Yamaha Audemar mastered not only the Atlantic waves but proved that in order to win you need good strategy and above all, experience. Pons had calculated methodically the refuel of second day at Pointe Noire and he continued consistently and progressed on winning Heat 2 which was a very important stage of the race. Up to this point other experienced riders - Farthing, Pastorello (Mark Hahn 300 2011 winner) and MacClugage- experience all sort of issues. The big surprise of this years event was no other than local racer Cendric Ramassamy (Kawasaki 300X) who ended up in second place along with Patrick Gounouman. Another very fast rider was Davy Vaitilington (Kawasaki 300X) who although he was sick at the beginning of the race he managed to climb fast in third overall. Winner of F2 was Jean-Luc Jashi. Official UIM Race Report: Monday, 18 April, Guadeloupe: Teddy Pons from France was crowned the winner of the 14th edition of the Karujet run in memory of the late Mauro Ravenna after finishing in eighth place in the fifth and final stage. After 5 heats and 600 km around Guadeloupes butterfly Island it was the French star who came out on top and who best-mastered the difficult conditions and poor weather which at times took their toll of several of the fancied riders including last years winner, Jean-Bruno Pastorello and Americans Dustin Farthing and Chris McCluggage. Sundays last two heats (4 &5) were made up of 8 laps of 15km each from Viard beach to Mouchoir Carré and back to Viard. After taking second place in heat three, finishing behind Davy Vaitilingon and ahead of Fabien Limon, Teddy Pons started with a gap of 4' on Cedric Ramassamy (GWA) and 13' on the third in the overalls, Francoise Medori (FRA). Pons sat back in heat four doing enough to protect his overall lead, with the stage win going to Jean Christophe Prayas (SBT), with Gounuman Patrick (GWA) second and Bruno Vincendeau (FRA) in third. Pons finished in 7th ahead of his main rival Ramassamy in 8th. The fifth and final heat win went to Dusting Farthing with Vincent Karam (GWA) in second and Jean-Bruno Pastorello (FRA) in third. Pons strategy was to cover off his main rivals Ramassamy and Gounuman, which he did, finishing in eighth, with Ramassamy down in 19th and Gounuman finishing in 9th position to jump Medori and take third overall. Overall Standings: 1.Teddy Pons, 2.Centric Ramassamy, 3.Patrick Gounouman, 4.Francois Medori, 5.Jean Meclot,6.Mathieu Podda, 7.Christophe Concoriet, 8.Herve Partouche, 9.Jean Luc Jahsy, 10.Hugues Degrandmaison. Click on the attachmant sign to read the final sandings in Pro Class.
