British Karting News

Matthew Parry underlined his affinity with the tricky Rowrah circuit by dominating the fourth round of the Formula Kart Stars campaign and increasing his overall Junior Rotax points lead. The Paul Carr Racing driver started as he meant to go on, posting strong times in practice before topping his qualifying group and earn pole position for Pre-Final A. Such was Parry’s pace that he also reset Andy King’s lap record from opening qualifying, with the ...

Once Matthew Graham had cleared polesitter Max Vaughan and Leon Hilliard he was simply untouchable in the suddenly wet conditions at the end of the day. He pulled out a massive thirteen seconds over his rivals, his locally based team obviously well acquainted with the vagaries of the Rowrah circuit in Cumbria. Vaughan was forced to turn his attention to defending second from Hilliard whilst Sam Vanderpump ran a lonely fourth. Local ...

Jack Barlow survived a fraught weekend (27/28 June) to maintain his push for the Formula Kart Stars crown. The fourth round of the series visited the superb Rowrah circuit and the Minimax points-leader was hoping that a change of chassis would maintain his advantage over his rivals. “We’re leading the championship at the moment and wanted to make sure that we did everything possible to maintain that advantage. I tested a Fernando ...

Despite being moved the height of summer to mid-June, and clashing unavoidably with the F1’s British Grand Prix, the annual Welsh Kart Championships still attracted 100 entries, with drivers from all over the country being blessed by some dry, and occasionally sunny, weather. Host club Llandow fielded all the regular classes, with a guest appearance from the Dadson masters, and rewrote five lap records in the course of two days of racing, before the weekend’s ...

Once Matthew Graham had cleared polesitter Max Vaughan and Leon Hilliard he was simply untouchable in the suddenly wet conditions at the end of the day. He pulled out a massive thirteen seconds over his rivals, his locally based team obviously well acquainted with the vagaries of the Rowrah circuit in Cumbria. Vaughan was forced to turn his attention to defending second from Hilliard whilst Sam Vanderpump ran a lonely fourth. Local ...

Exciting young Sale-based karting star Jay Goodwin put a run of ill-fortune behind him in his latest club outing at Shenington, with a front-running performance throughout that earned him a well-deserved rostrum finish – and set him up in fine style for his forthcoming national meeting. With little going right in the build-up and a distinct lack of solid results to show for his efforts, as well as a 70mph accident not of his own ...

Despite being moved the height of summer to mid-June, and clashing unavoidably with the F1’s British Grand Prix, the annual Welsh Kart Championships still attracted 100 entries, with drivers from all over the country being blessed by some dry, and occasionally sunny, weather. Host club Llandow fielded all the regular classes, with a guest appearance from the Dadson masters, and rewrote five lap records in the course of two days of racing, before the weekend’s ...

Ben Hanley was due to be racing at Wackerdorf but isn't due to a car racing call up