British Karting News » 2009 » June

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

Jorrit Pex is on pole in KZ2 6/100th ahead of Hawksworth - http://bit.ly/r8MrS

Young Peterborough karting star Callum Bowyer demonstrated exactly what he is capable of in the third round of the national Super 1 Series in 2009, in battling right up at the sharp end of proceedings throughout – and afterwards he threw down the gauntlet to his rivals in suggesting that they ain’t seen nothing yet. Callum has graduated to the more powerful KF3 category this year after pulling off the prestigious and rarely-achieved triple crown of ...

Dean Panrucker’s partnership with his new KF1 signing, Luke Wright delivered instant success taking a double podium at Rowrah, last Sunday (7 June). Having opted to complete the 2009 season with Panrucker’s Millennium Motorsport team only days before, Wright had little time to adjust to his new surrounding before Saturday’s timed qualifying session. The Dorset driver was eleventh fastest and admitted making mistakes, although expressing delight with pace ...