Two young karters prove rising stars at national sprint championships
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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
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