Riki Christodoulou vented some of the frustrations experienced at the recent CIK European Championship by comprehensively winning the final round of the Belgian Championships at Mariembourg last weekend.

The 2003 JICA British Champ contested the Formula A class in a move up from his usual ICA category with a view towards a possible 2005 campaign.

‘Christo’ qualified fastest then proceeded to win the first final by an impressive eight seconds over a somewhat small entry before also leading from start to finish in the second main event. The achievement will help the teenager upgrade his licence after the mechanical troubles at last month’s Euro Championship saw him drop down the order. Formula A Karts are marginally faster than ICA prepped machines but tyre degradation is considerably higher. 

Christo heads out to Italy and the Parma circuit this week to compete in consecutive weekend meetings as part of the ‘Industrials’ series and as a member of the MGM racing team. Again in Formula A, the young Brit will round off the season in southern Europe before closing the book on his 2004 schedule with two appearances in the Winter Super Libre competition in November (7th at PF) and December (5th at Shenington).