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Monday, 19 July 2021, 1:25 pm
The county’s top school-age karters proved their mettle
as torrential rain showers lashed the Tokoroa venue hosting
this year’s KartSport New Zealand McFall Fuel National
Schools’ Championship meeting on Saturday.
Braving
what one long term observer of the sport described as
‘probably the worst conditions I have ever seen at a kart
race meeting, with very high winds and horizontal rain for
most of the day,’ the 103 karters who had entered this
year’s event simply knuckled down and got on with
representing their school.
At one stage racing was
suspended until conditions improved, but bar the resulting
Auckland karter Ryan Grant has been racing and winning in New Zealand’s premier 125cc/6-speed KZ2 class for 14 years. And if he continues to drive with the pace, precision and patience he showed at the third round of this year’s Giltrap Group .
Press Release – KartSport New Zealand
Auckland karter Ryan Grant has been racing and winning in New Zealand’s premier 125cc/6-speed KZ2 class for 14
years. And if he continues to drive with the pace, precision and patience he showed at the third round of this year’s Giltrap Group ProKart Series at the KartSport Bay of Plenty club’s newly renamed Apparelmaster Raceway over the weekend he could well be doing so for another 14,
While he didn’t qualify quickest – that honour went to former international and now top local team owner Daniel Bray – or claim the round win – fellow Auckland category old hand Mat Kinsman did that – Grant simply never gave up, getting his reward – finally – in the KZ2 class Final with a 3.2 second victory over Kinsman, Graeme Smyth and Joshua Parkinson.
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