Matthew Zammit continued the winning streak for Grimaldi Team Malta at Cesaro last weekend when he drove his Van Diemen Suzuki to a deserved overall win.

Zammit didn’t put a foot wrong all day. He dominated the 100-strong field through each of the three timed runs.

This was his first overall win, and he did it in fine style. The race organisers had somewhat moved the goalposts since last year but this was of no significance to the seven Maltese drivers present.

Seeing the different conditions with which they were faced, they simply got on with the job of driving as hard and as well as they could to record a third overall win out of three starts at the three-kilometre Cesaro hill.

While Zammit was revelling in the conditions, Alan Curmi caught a curb and damaged his Radical Suzuki on the first run of the day.

The team set to work, making temporary repairs and Curmi was ready to take the start for the last run in good time.

Joshua Anastasi had a cautious first run with his JBR-4 Kawasaki as did Alex Zammit and Emanuel Muscat, both driving new Radical Kawasakis.

Mark Micallef put in an excellent first run in his Alfasud on his debut in Sicily to take an immediate class lead, while Ivan Deidun had a very good time too but collected a couple of penalties on the way.

At the end of the second of the three timed runs, it was Matthew Zammit dominating out in front again. Micallef, however, damaged the front suspension of his car, putting paid to any further progress.

Again Zammit was totally dominant in round three, handling his Van Diemen as though he had been doing it daily for the last decade and improving his time, again.

Rosario Milano, from Catania, was a close second in his Elia Avrio which was ideally suited to the course as Anastasi also improved to take third place overall. Curmi produced a clean run to move up to fourth.

Despite not being able to complete his final run, Micallef still managed to win his class as did Zammit, with Muscat placing an excellent second in his class as Deidun, though blindingly quick, kept touching cones with the resultant points penalties.

So, at the end of another day’s hard racing, the tally for the Maltese drivers was another first overall placing, thanks to Matthew Zammit, this being the third such win by a Grimaldi driver in as many years, third overall for Anastasi, fourth for Curmi, plus five class wins and a second place in class.