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

Zach Zammit will not be present this year but Joshua Anastasi has been working flat out to repair his JBR-4 Kawasaki in time for the hill climb at Cesaro, following last month’s disastrous fire at Racalmuto. “We’ve had to put a new engine in, and we haven’t got any 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. Alan drives his JBR-3 and Patrick his Hawke. Both cars are powered by Kawasaki motors. “I’ve enjoyed the circuit racing immensely” said Patrick; “if this is as good as they say it is, then I can’t wait for the weekend to arrive”.

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. ‘Lai’ has made plenty of new modifications to this car which is the current talking point in Sicilian motorsport forums following his success at the Etna. His car will definitely be the centre of attraction, and we know Lai won’t disappoint.

Etienne Grech is the fifth member of the Grimaldi Team Malta who will be on the ferry today bound for Catania. “Tyanu” 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, rather than spectating this weekend in Sicily.

The Cesaro hill climb is once again promoted by Salerno Eventi on behalf of UISP, and due to it’s popularlty – over 150 entries are expected – the organisers have decided to run the event over both Saturday and Sunday. The Grimaldi team is managed by Joe Anastasi.