Grimaldi Team revisits Cesaro

Five Grimaldi Team Malta drivers will be in Cesaro, Sicily, this weekend hoping to repeat their excellent performance last year when Zach Zammit and Joshua Anastasi finished first and second overall.

Zammit will not be present this year but Anastasi has been working flat out to repair his JBR-4 Kawasaki in time for the Cesaro hill climb, following last month's disastrous fire at Racalmuto.

"We've had to fit a new engine and we haven't got time to do any work on it. It won't be as fast as the other was, but Cesaro is too good to miss," said the current ICC champion.

Alan Curmi and Patrick Gauci will also be racing single-seater formula cars at Cesaro.

Whilst both have competed in circuit races in Sicily, this will be their first taste of Sicilian hill climbs and they couldn't have chosen a better one.

Curmi drives a JBR-3 and Gauci his Hawke. Both cars are powered by Kawasaki motors.

"I've enjoyed the circuit racing immensely," Gauci said. "If this is as good as they say it is, then I can't wait for the weekend to come."

The star of last year's Etna hill climb, Nikolai Degiorgio, will be making a welcome return to Sicily with his superfast Lancia Delta Integrale.

Degiorgio has made plenty of modifications to this car which is the current talking point in Sicilian motorsport forums following his success at the Etna.

Etienne Grech is the fifth member of the Grimaldi Team who will be on the ferry tomorrow bound for Catania.

Grech has attended hill climbs as a spectator before but he has finally succumbed and is now looking forward to racing his smart Group A Citroen AX GTI this weekend in Sicily.

The Cesaro hill climb is once again promoted by Salerno Eventi on behalf of UISP, and due to its popularlty - over 150 entries expected - the organisers have decided to run the event over both Saturday and Sunday.

The Grimaldi Team is managed by Joe Anastasi.