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Race Results

East Anglian Trophy @ Kimbolton

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The East Anglian Trophy is Hunts Kart Racing Club’s signature event. A tall order then for Sam to come back from crashing out from his first event at Kimbolton in April. The weekends racing started on the Saturday after more limited practice sessions than usual. Conditions were good, dry and warm enough, nowhere near as hot as it had been in April. The grid was up to 20 karts for this meeting and Sam qualified to start 16th for heat 1. He made a good start and rose to 13th after 3 laps eventually finishing 12th, this was a good start to the weekend. We returned on Sunday morning for another 3 lap practice and then heat 2. Unfortunately a lap 1 incident with kart 33 (not for the first time) and Sam dropped from 12th to 18th. At race end Sam moved up to 17th after a retirement further up the field.

For the final Sam was now down in 17th on the grid. He got round Freya on the start and avoided a tangle of karts in the first corner to emerge in 15th at the end of the first lap. Sam set about chasing Macie again for the next few laps. Jaz and Charlie came through after their earlier problems but then again on lap 11 and incident gave Sam the chance to move up again to 13th. Oli also got through and passed Sam, so now Freya was chasing Sam into the final laps. Kart 34 passed Freya in the final two laps and pipped Sam right on the line by just 0.18 of a second! That’s just one bad corner exit but Sam still finished a solid 14th Overall and 3rd of 7 novices. Quite a race to watch…time for a lie down!

Novice trophy collected (Sam’s at the far end)

Race Results

May Meeting Club2000: Pretty Pants!

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The May meeting was nothing to write home about at all really. Sam was in heats 1,3 and 4 so a quiet morning and busy afternoon. Heat 1 saw Sam plummet from 11th to 19th on the first lap, the result of the usual first corner chaos before taking 1 place back from another drivers bad luck.

 

Heat 3 was perhaps worse again. Sam was in his high grid spot (P3) for this meet and was doing ok in the first few laps, losing just two places dropping to 5th. On lap 3 though kart 88 went into the gap Sam left around the fast Esses corner, unfortunately when Sam closed the gap there was contact and off Sam went. Now down in 17th Sam was pretty upset but clawed one place back to finish in 16th.

Heat 4 was the best racing to watch as Sam battled with his friend Aaron through the first 4 laps. In the end he finished where he started in 17th. Sam had his fastest lap of the day in this heat, a respectable 47.83 just 3 tenths off the heat winners fastest lap.

With little prospect of reaching the A Final, Sam started the B Final in 8th of 12 starters. Sam dropped 2 places by the second lap but got one back on lap 3. Another error for kart 8 got Sam another spot back to finished again where he had started.

Next Race: The East Anglian Trophy at HKRC, Kimbolton