Unexpected ending for the 2011 Ramadan Karting Challenge! Four drivers were excluded from the event, which made dramatic change in the overall standing.

The qualifying session of the race was stopped, and restarted due to failure in the timing system.  In the 2^nd run, Omar Farrah was in pole position with his teammate Izz Bustami on the first row for the start of the pre-final race.  Abdullah Bustami was less than 0.2 sec behind Izz, which placed him in 3^rd place on the grid. The Lebanese participants Chant Etyemezian and Yousef Jammal took the 4^th and 5^th places leaving Mamdouh Abu Hassan behind, who was doing super great for his first race ever! By the end of the qualifying session, the stewards decided to penalize Abdullah Bustami by starting from the back of the grid as his kart was exceeding the maximum width of the kart by 5 millimeters.

The race started very smoothly and the first two drivers started to widen the gap as in the previous races.  Abu Samra, 2008 Middle East Juniors Champion, proved that he’s full of talent and fought to climb from 9^th place to finish in 3^rd position! Chant Etyemezian had an incident with his fellow citizen, which forced him to drop from 3^rd place to 5^th. Abdullah Bustami showed spectacular performance by moving from the back of the grid to 5^th place were his race ended due to an incident with Ayah Doughlah. Abdullah Gokahshaw getting better and better and achieving better times in each round! In the final round he broke the 40 seconds barrier to set his fastest time and place himself in 7^th.

After the pre-final race, the scrutineers reported some karts to have extra grease on their clutches. The stewards decided to be fair and asked all examined karts to clean the clutches before the start of the final race.

The final race started with very high competition unlike all starts of the series. The top 5 drivers were back to back with positions changing. Abu Samra with many attempts to overtake Izz Bustami gave the chance to Omar Farrah to make a little gap.

Few laps after the start, an accident involving Mamdouh Abu Hassan, Ahmad Abdelkhliq and Yousef Jammal made the organizers issue the red flag to stop the race. The stewards decided to put the race on hold and transport the injured drivers to the hospital where they had medical check and they all turned to be fine.

The juniors race had an accident on the start which forced Nafe Jarrar who was in pole position to retire. This left Ghassan Abu Hassan to fly and mark his first victory followed by Noor Doughlah and Faisal Abu Hassan.

Before the stewards decided to suffice with the pre-final results only and cancel the final race for the seniors, they had another decision to make. It involved un-sportsmanship behavior of team manager regarding the race director and the organizing team, which resulted in excluding team. Drivers affected were Omar Farrah, Izz Bustami, Abdullah Gokahshaw and Ahmed Abdelkhaliq. Accordingly, all their results on the 3^rd round of Ramadan Karting Challenge will be cancelled giving the pole position to Chant Etyemezian and the race victory to Othman Abu Samra!

Winners of Round 3:

Seniors

• Othman Abu Samra
• Chant Etyemezian
• Yousef Jammal

Juniors

• Ghassan Abu Hassan
• Noor Doughlah
• Faisal Abu Hassan

Overall winners:

Seniors

• Othman Abu Samra
• Abdullah Bustami
• Omar Farrah

Juniors

• Nafe Jarrar
• Ghassan Abu Hassan
• Roubens Bouchabkeh

For detailed results please visit the results page.