TWO COUNTIES KART CLUB AGM 2025

AGM to be held at Clay Pigeon Raceway meeting on
Friday 24^th October 2025 at 7:00pm (TBC)

The Annual General Meeting of The Two Counties Kart Club will be held at Clay Pigeon Raceway (location T.B.C) on Friday 24^th October. All members of 2CKC are welcome to attend

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Send your comments by post, email, or telephone to myself as Club Secretary, or to any member of the committee.

We need everyone’s support to develop and promote our Club next year.

Please consider putting your name forward to join the committee.

Names of members wishing to stand for the committee need to be proposed by latest midnight on Monday October 20, with names of proposer and seconder, both of whom must be members of the club.

You can contact me on the e-mail or phone numbers below.

Names of those standing will be posted on the 2CKC page of Planet Karting as received.

If you have any items for the agenda, please let me know by Friday 17^th October.

Proxy Forms. If there is a vote on any issue, and you are unable to attend, you may request a proxy form from me to nominate a member who you wish to vote on your behalf. Completed forms must be with me by Friday 17^th October. Again, I am happy to do this by e-mail.

Agenda

1. Welcome from our Consultant, Ron Shone.
2. Apologies.
3. Report of the acting Chairman and Committee for 2025.
4. Treasurer’s Report for 2025 (provisional figures prior to year end).
5. Election of Committee Members for 2025.

            Chairman                    Treasurer                    Secretary

            Competition Secretary                        President

                                                Marketing/Promotion

6. Plans for Club Championship 2026.
7. Plans for the presentation event
8. Plans for the future of Two Counties Kart Club.
9. AOB
   
   

Rob Mortimore, Acting Chairman             rmortimore66@gmail.com

With a Pole to Flag win,  Dean Smithers took the first scoring round of the 2CKC Champs by storm. Despite having his own mechanical issues,  so did many of his rivals !  Second on the day was Mike Bell with 6 scored points.  Equal 3^rd  was Max Gunter and Stuart Gray, sharing 7 points each.  5^th on the days’ scored points was David Waldron. Smithers now holds the lead, with Mike Bell in 2nd ahead of David Waldron on count back. Max Gunter and Stuart Gray share equal 4th.

FOR MORE RESULTS & DETAILS – CLICK HERE
TO BOOK TICKETS FOR THE PRESENTATION EVENT PLEASE CLICK HERE
TO ENTER CLAY PIGEON ON 25th OCTOBER  – CLICK HERE

Ron Shone shared the day’s win with Max Gunter on 6 points apiece.  This allowed him to take a narrow lead over  John Hartshorne, who retired from the Final, having almost closed down Shone with a few laps remaining before a plug cap failure.  Mike Bell finished 3^rd on the day and managed to close in on Hartshorne, leaving only one point between them with one round to go.
The last round takes place at the Clay Pigeon Raceway on Saturday 25^th October.

FOR MORE RESULTS & DETAILS – CLICK HERE

TO BOOK TICKETS FOR THE PRESENTATION EVENT PLEASE CLICK HERE

TO ENTER THE RACE AT CLAY PIGEON ON 25th OCTOBER – CLICK HERE

Competitors are advised, that entries are now open for the Indyblue TnT final round, plus the Two Counties Championship final round (which includes the Matthew Percy Memorial Race for Formula BLUE) at the Clay Pigeon Circuit on Saturday 25th October,
There will be practice on Friday 24th October, for those who wish, payable at the circuit on the day.
The link for entries is at the foot of this news brief.
The entry list will close at Midnight on Saturday 18th October. Late entries may be accepted, however, they will be placed on the back of the grid for all heats.
TO ENTER THE EVENT on 25th October at Clay Pigeon PLEASE CLICK HERE.
For results and details of the INDYBLUE TnT CLICK HERE
For results and details of the 2 Counties Club Championship CLICK HERE

With Rich Puddle, the outright winner of round 1, being absent from round 2 of the INDY BLUE TnT, the door was wide open for the rest of the grid to win the free Ski Holiday. In the end it was Dean Smithers who, despite DNF’ing in the 1st heat, filled the number one slot. He managed to secure Pole Position for the Final. A position from which he never looked back ! Despite achieving the same lap times, Stuart Gray was unable to make up the distance from a grid 5 start. Second overall, on the day, was Mike Bell with a front row start and a 4th place finish. With one round to go Smithers leads with 4 points from Bell on 13points and Dave Waldron on 15 points.
The final race takes place on 25th October at the Clay Pigeon Raceway. The presentations for this event will take place in the evening of 25th October, upstairs in the Clay Pigeon Hospitality Suite, at 7pm.
N.B. WINNERS MUST BE PRESENT TO COLLECT
Tickets are available at a cost of £15 which includes a two course meal, a welcome drink and free wine on the table. Contact Julie , on mail@planetkarting.co.uk or 01305 774074 for tickets or click link below.

TO VIEW INDYBLUE TnT RESULTS PLEASE CLICK HERE
TO BOOK TICKETS FOR THE PRESENTATION EVENT PLEASE CLICK HERE

Following the conclusion of the Formula BLUE Challenge and the NKRA Grande Finals, the seeded numbers can now be announced. These numbers are available for use from September 22nd until the Grande Finals in 2026. The NKRA would like to offer congratulations ! To all the seeded drivers especially including David Watts, who is the new number 1 plate.
The presentation of all the seeded number plates (1 – 19) will be made, along with the up to £6,000.00 worth of prize fund, across the various championships, at the presentation evening scheduled for Saturday 25th October. Drivers are reminded that it is a regulation requirement that winners must be present in order to receive their awards.
TO BOOK YOUR TICKETS FOR THE PRESENTATION EVENT CLICK LINK HERE or go to the NKRA menu page on the planetkarting.uk website.

For details of the 2025/ 26 seeded drivers CLICK LINK HERE, or go to the Formula BLUE menu page on the planetkarting.uk website

FOR FULL RESULTS AND POINTS CLICK LINK HERE or view on the Formula BLUE menu on the planetkarting.uk website

Tickets are now available for the end of season Presentation Evening on 25th October.
Please CLICK the following link to order tickets and view meal choice.
We look forward to seeing you at this traditional end of season event
TO BOOK TICKETS AND FOR MORE DETAILS CLICK HERE

Competitors are requested to return the Annual Trophies, that they hold, from the 2024 Championships. These can be either securely packaged and sent to 125 Lanehouse Rocks Road, Weymouth. DT4 9HY, or alternatively delivered to Julie, at the TABOR Trade trailer at CLAY PIGEON on Fri. 26th or Sat. 27th September. Thank you !

Trophies to be returned include:
NKRA
FORMULA BLUE – 1st: A. Cleal ; 2nd: J. Foster
BLUE MASTER – 1st: A. Cleal ; 2nd: J. Foster
BLUE VETERAN – 1st: A. Cleal; 3rd: S. Groves
BLUE LEGEND –
TOP WEIGHT –

INDY BLUE TnT – 1st: A. Cleal ; 3rd: M. Bell

TABOR – 1st: A. Cleal ; 2nd: J. Foster

Having already won the formula BLUE Challenge Championship, David Watts cemented the 2025 race season with a win over Billy Thomas in the NKRA Grande Finals, albeit by the narrowest of 1 point margin.
The competitors racing in this year’s NKRA Grande Finals had to ‘survive’ 4 Heats over two days before reaching the final. The Heat winners were (1) David Watts, (2) Dean Smithers, (3) Stuart Gray and (4) Billy Thomas. The ‘Final’ grid thereafter found Thomas on pole with three drivers sharing points for 2nd place. According to regulations, they were separated by the results of Heat one.
This, crucially, gave Watts opposite pole with Stuart Gray 3rd and Mike Bell in 4th. the 3rd row had Dean Smithers and Nigel Vickery side by side. Smithers feeling particularly hard done by as in Heat 4 he incurred a 5 second penalty for a drop nose cone but for that he would have sat on opposite pole and the end outcome to the Grande Finals could have been so different, but that’s racing !!
From the start Watts tried a risky move going around the outside of Thomas in bend one. It paid off and he claimed the lead. Just behind, Smithers outgunned Bell for 4th and Gunter claimed 6th from Vickery and Robin Stoddart-Stones. Little changed until lap 4 when Gray outbraked Thomas for 2nd and set off in pursuit of Watts, who had established a little buffer. The race then settled down with Watts setting a consistent pace which, try as he would, Gray could not improve on. By the time of the chequered flag, the front five were spaced out by a couple of seconds apiece. The close racing came from Gunter and Vickery competing over 7th place with John Hartshorne and Ron Shone racing for 9th spot. Watts took the flag a worth winner on the day, followed by Gray, Thomas, Smithers and Bell.
When the scored points were all added together, Watts was able to celebrate the overall win, but it was Thomas in 2nd place a mere 1 point behind. The next three drivers shared the same points, so it went to countback where Gray claimed 3rd from Smithers and Bell.
Formula BLUE racers now have three weeks to dust down before being involved in the 2nd round of the INDYBLUE TnT and the 1st scoring round of the Two Counties Club Championship taking place at the Clay Pigeon Raceway on Saturday 27th September.
For more results and details CLICK HERE

CLICK HERE – To enter THE INDY BLUE TnT and the Two Counties Champs round 2

Robin Stoddart-Stones, with a 10 point score, wins back to back rounds in the TABOR Championship. This result scored at the NKRA Grande Finals moves him up from equal 5th to equal 4th and only 10 points from the leader. Equal 2nd on the day were John Hartshorne and Mike Bell on 8 points apiece.
Hartshorne, as a consequence moves up from 2nd to equal 1st, sharing the lead with Ron Shone. Bell remains in 3rd place, 2 points behind the leader.
The next scoring rounds are at Clay Pigeon on Sat 27th September and Sat. 25th October, as part on the INDYBLUE TnT and Two Counties Club Championship.
For more results / position details CLICK HERE

CLICK HERE – TO ENTER THE NEXT EVENT ON 27th SEPTEMBER AT CLAY PIGEON