Thursday, 29 April 2021, 12:49 pm
Auckland karters free to travel around the country again
have provided the organisers of the third round of
the
2020/21 Manawatu & TRC
Toyota-backed Wellington Provincial Karting Association’s
(WPKA) Goldstar Series at the KartSport Hawke’s Bay
club’s Carter’s Tyres Raceway at Fernhill near Hastings
this weekend with an entry bonus – at last count 129
karters have signed on to compete, making the meeting one of
the biggest the club has run in recent times.
Because
of the country’s last snap COVID-19 Lockdown Aucklanders
were unable to travel to the second round of this season’s
Press Release – KartSport New Zealand
Top Auckland karter Graeme Smyth was back to his best at the second round of this year’s Giltrap Group ProKart Series at Rotorua over the weekend.
With the return to the popular annual KZ2-based series of Auckand-based international Daniel Bray, as well as Smyth’s multiple ProKart Series winning teammate Ryan Grant dominating the headlines last week, Smyth was very much able to run ‘under the radar’ heading into the meeting.
However, after splitting Grant and Rnd 1 series winner Mat Kinsman to claim the second quickest lap time in qualifying on Saturday morning it was Smyth who very much dominated proceedings, winning the first two KZ2 class heat races – from Grant, Bray, Kinsman and young gun Nathan Crang in the first, then Grant, Kinsman. Bray and Jackson Rooney in the second – on Saturday, then the final (fourth) heat as well as both the Pre-Final and Final on Sunday.
Press Release – KartSport New Zealand
Fast-rising young Kiwi racing driver Liam Lawson. Photo credit: Fast Company/Ross MacKay
He came, he saw, and fast-rising young New Zealand racing driver Liam Lawson conquered – in both classes he was entered in to boot – on his return to the sport where he got his start – karting – at the KartSport Auckland club’s annual City of Sails’ two-day challenge meeting over the Auckland Anniversary weekend (Sat/Sun Jan 30-31).
Despite not having raced a kart since his move to cars in 2014, Pukekohe driver Lawson was happy to accept the offer of a drive at this year’s Pool & Spa Maintenance Ltd-sponsored City of Sails meeting from fellow former NZ kart champion and now Hamilton-based team owner, Josh Hart, of Josh Hart Karting.
Monday, 1 February 2021, 5:30 pm
Fast-rising
young Kiwi racing driver Liam Lawson. Photo credit: Fast
Company/Ross MacKay
He came, he saw,
and fast-rising young New Zealand racing driver Liam Lawson
conquered – in both classes he was entered in to boot –
on his return to the sport where he got his start –
karting – at the KartSport Auckland club’s annual City
of Sails’ two-day challenge meeting over the Auckland
Anniversary weekend (Sat/Sun Jan 30-31).
Despite not
having raced a kart since his move to cars in 2014, Pukekohe
driver Lawson was happy to accept the offer of a drive at
this year’s Pool & Spa Maintenance Ltd-sponsored City