Christopher Njeim secured his second victory of the 2014 Lebanese Karting Championship during the second round of the season at the Pit Stop Circuit in Zouk. The youngest of the Njeim brothers dominated the event by winning both the pre-final and final races.
After committing a couple of errors in the pre-final race, he drove a flawless final race to finish first ahead of Christophe Rizk, and extend his championship lead in the Junior class.
“I slipped out twice on the dirty side of the track and Christophe [Rizk] caught up and put pressure on me in the pre-final race. The fact that Christophe was close behind me shows that it’s not going to be easy in the upcoming rounds.” said Njeim, who comfortably won the final race.
Rizk was satisfied with second place, he said: “In the pre-final race, Christopher made a couple of mistakes so I caught up with him but I couldn’t overtake. In the final race, he put on a new set of tyres, so he managed to pull a comfortable gap.”
Third place went to an ecstatic Rashed Ghanem who started the final race from fourth place before moving past Serge Antypas and fending off heavy pressure from his competitor throughout the race.
He said: “I had a poor pre-final race because of low grip, but I had new tyres on in the final race, so I had better grip and I managed to compete for the final podium spot.”