British Karting News » 2009 » July

Colin Turkington is the latest big name in British motor sport to join the prominent ranks of Go Motorsport ambassadors. The Northern Irish star who leads the HiQ MSA British Touring Car Championship in his Team RAC BMW 320si adds his name to a distinguished roster of UK stars backing the Motor Sports Association’s new Go Motorsport initiative – a scheme which has been set up specifically to help people of all ages to ...

Three Cadet drivers from different teams were chosen to have their race fuel drained and refilled by petrol and oil supplied by the organizers at the start of the first final, in continuing efforts to counter any paddock rumours of drivers using non-homologated oils. About eight karts fell off the track at the start of the first final, and just after that Sam Vanderpump lost his chain. This left Connor Jupp struggling to ...

The Snetterton Circuit in England may be Josef Newgarden’s new favorite race track, after the talented American enjoyed a superb weekend of racing at the high-speed road course over the weekend (July 4-5). Newgarden was the driver to beat virtually the entire event in his Joe Tandy Racing entry, winning twice and standing on the podium in all three races of the MSA Formula Ford Championship of Great Britain tripleheader. Both Newgarden and the Joe Tandy ...

Young Sale-based karting star Jay Goodwin was knocked down and rebounded more times in his most recent meeting than most drivers do over the course of an entire season – but even if he was denied the result he deserved in round four of the hotly-contested 2009 Formula Kart Stars (FKS) Championship at Rowrah, he was nonetheless able to prove that at the very highest national level, he is right on the front-running pace. Following ...

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 ...