Competitors are advised that entries are now open for the NKRA Regional Championship ( Final Round ) including the South West Championships on August 26th & 27th, at Mansell Raceway.
Cadet Honda and Junior BLUE will race within the Mansell Championship race format on Saturday and Sunday, Formula BLUE will race on Sunday under the NKRA (3 heats and Final) format. There will be a full-day practice for Formula BLUE for those who wish on Saturday 26th August. Cadet HONDA and Junior BLUE will have morning practice and timed practice in the afternoon. The Saturday and/or Sunday practice/races can be entered on the Mansell Kart Club web link. The link for entries is also at the foot of this Newsbrief.
The entry list for the Junior and Formula BLUE classes will close on Saturday (midnight) on the 19th of August 2023. Late entries (up to a grid maximum of 30) in Formula BLUE may be accepted, however, they will be placed on the back of the grid for all heats.

TO ENTER THE EVENT GO TO THE LINK ON THE MANSELL KART CLUB WEBSITE OR PLEASE CLICK HERE

TO VIEW THE NKRA CURRENT CHAMPIONSHIP STANDINGS GO TO THE RESULTS PAGE ON
www.planetkarting.uk website OR PLEASE CLICK HERE

Tabor Karting will be in attendance, at the FOREST EDGE RACE CIRCUIT on the 5th and 6th of August, for the Club Championship meeting which incorporates Round 3 of the TWO COUNTIES CLUB CHAMPIONSHIP.
Competitors requiring tyres/spares for all classes for this event and to ensure delivery /collection on race weekend, please order and purchase your requirements in advance, by 12 noon on Wednesday 2nd of August. Thanks and see you there.
Telephone 01305 774074

Russell O’Neill along with support from TABOR Karting, will have a Junior Blue Kart available at the Forest Edge Race circuit on Saturday, August 5th 2023, for a free ( taster) test drive.
For Cadets or Junior drivers already practicing on the day, there is no charge. However, there will be a
£ 10 insurance charge per new driver, payable to the race circuit prior to track use. The free tests will comprise of a minimum of 10 laps on the day, between 10 am and 5 pm.
It is possible that there may be an enthusiastic uptake of this offer. Therefore, if interested and as available track time will be allocated, it is recommended that those interested make contact, in advance, to secure a track time slot.
PLEASE RING – RUSSELL O’NEILL on 07932468923 or TABOR KARTING on 01305 774074

After a two-month wait between rounds 1 & 2, the Two Counties programme was back in action again at the Forest Edge race circuit, on July 2nd, where a hot and sunny weekend awaited the competitors.

Devon Giles attended, securing top minimum points and keeping him in the lead of Cadet HONDA Class.
In Junior BLUE, Rudie Winslow -Morten’s father was ‘ on call’ over the weekend preventing his attendance. Alfie Lenton, despite carburettor issues during the heats, which were sorted for the Final, raced superbly with lap times well up into the Senior category. His minimum points win moves him into a clear lead in the Championship.

The Formula BLUE class was a real ‘whose who’ in the entrants’ list with only Kieran Quirke in the top 10 missing. The heats were fiercely contested with a few incidents along the way! The grid for the Final had series leader, Dave Watts, on P1 with Joey Foster alongside. Row 2 had Anthony Cleal and Paul Alexander with Row 3 being filled by Stuart Gray and Harry Smithson. The race itself was hard fought with positions changing every lap. Watts lead until the last lap, when Gray found a way past. Gray, however, incurred a ‘drop down’ front bumper time penalty in post-race scrutineering which demoted him out of the top three. In the end, it was a win for Watts over Smithson, Cleal, Gray and Foster. In the Club Championship itself, Watts slightly increases his lead, with Foster and Cleal running in equal 2nd. 4th is Alexander, over Steve Groves, albeit by virtue of a better drop option.

In the Master sub-group , Cleal takes the day with 2 points over Foster with 3 points. Gray with 6 points comes in 3rd spot, just ahead of Alexander with 7 points. David Waldron with a 7th start place and 5th over the line takes 5th place overall. Cleal takes the lead from Foster in the Championship standings, with Alexander in 3rd, Groves in 4th and Gray in 5th.

Cleal wins the Veteran section with minimum points from Gray, Alexander, Waldron and Robin Stoddart-Stones. Overall, Cleal sits in a dominant Series lead from Alexander, Groves, Gray and Stoddart-Stones.

Gray was unchallenged in the Legends sub-class. 2nd on the day was Stoddart-Stones followed by Kevin O’Neill and David Goode. It is Stoddart-Stones however, who holds the Championship lead by virtue of a better drop option over Gray. O’Neill slips to 3rd with Chris Underhill and David Goode in 4th & 5th.

Alexander wins the Top Weight section and remains in a clear lead in the Championship. 2nd on the day was Waldron, who moves up to 3rd overall. He is just bested in the standings by Rob Mortimore, who finished in 3rd spot on the day. 4th in the Championship is Stuart Adam.

The racers now have a 5-week break before round 3 of the Two Counties Club Championship, on August 6th, also at Forest Edge.
For more information and points up-date please view the results page on the www. planetkarting.co.uk website, or CLICK HERE

Competitors are advised that entries are now open for the, TWO COUNTIES CLUB CHAMPIONSHIP ( Round 3) on Sunday 6th August 2023 at the Forest Edge Circuit.
Practice is available on Saturday 5th August The Sunday race is entered on the FOREST EDGE Web link. (The link for entries is also at the foot of this news brief). Saturday practice can be entered for on the day at the circuit. The entry list for Formula Blue & Junior Blue will close at midnight, on Saturday 29th July. Late entries (up to a grid maximum of 30) may be accepted, however, if accepted, they will be placed at the back of the grid for all heats.
TO ENTER THE EVENT GO TO LINK ON www.fekc.co.uk OR PLEASE CLICK HERE
To view the 2 COUNTIES CLUB CHAMPIONSHIP current standing GO TO THE RESULTS PAGE ON
www.planetkarting.uk OR CLICK HERE

By virtue of his win, with 17 points, at Forest Edge, Anthony Cleal reinforces his lead in the TABOR Championship. His closest rival, Joey Foster, finished 2nd on 15 points and maintains his challenge. Alex Kemp, despite missing this round, remains in 3rd spot although he is being closed down by Rob Mortimore in 4th place.
The next scoring round is next month ( August 6th) at Forest Edge.
For full results please view the results page on www.planetkaritng.co.uk or CLICK HERE

Tabor Karting will be in attendance, at the FOREST EDGE RACE CIRCUIT on the 1st & 2nd July for the Club Championship meeting which incorporates Round 2 of the TWO COUNTIES CLUB CHAMPIONSHIP.
Competitors requiring tyres/spares for all classes for this event and to ensure delivery /collection on race weekend, please order and purchase your requirements in advance, by 12 noon on Wednesday 28th of June. Thanks and see you there.
Telephone 01305 774074

Tabor Karting, along with Russell O’Neill, will have a Junior Blue Kart available at the Forest Edge Race circuit on Saturday 1st July 2023, for a free ( taster) test drive.
For Cadet or Junior drivers already practicing on the day, there is no charge. However, there will be a £ 10 insurance charge per new driver, payable to the race circuit prior to track use. The free tests will comprise of up to 10 laps on the day, between 10 am and 5pm.
It is envisaged that there could be an enthusiastic uptake of this offer. Therefore, if interested and as available track time will be allocated, it is recommended that those interested make contact, in advance, to secure a track time slot.
PLEASE RING TABOR KARTING ON 01305 774074 or RUSSELL O’NEILL on 07932468923

A beautiful sunny and hot weekend greeted the competitors for the penultimate round of the NKRA Championship, held at the Lydd International Kart Circuit. No need to even think about ‘wets’ – they were firmly kept out of the way!

In the racing itself, Devon Giles continued on his unopposed run to the Regional championship.
The Two Junior Blue were locked together for the whole of the race day. this culminated with contact in the Final race, between the two of them, which in turn resulted in a collision with the safety barriers on the exit to pit bend. Alfie Lenton was the first to emerge from the barriers and went on to win. Rudie Winslow-Morten, once extracted from the safety barrier, also re-joined the race to finish 2nd. Both drives were uninjured, though some of the bodywork looked a little warped.

In the Formula BLUE Class, the first eleven in the Championship were all present making it fiercely competed for. Harry Smithson started the day 1 point ahead of the reigning Champion Anth Cleal, with Mike Bell, only 11 points adrift. Once the ‘dust’ from the heats had settled, Harry Smithson had secured Pole position from Stuart Gray P2 , Anth Cleal on P3 and Joey Foster P4. The third row being taken by Paul Alexander and Alex Kemp. After 17 laps of ferocious racing, Gray emerged the winner over the line from Smithson, Cleal, Foster and Alexander. With the points collated from the start- line up and Final finish positions, Gray and Smithson finished equal 1st on 2 points apiece, though Gray is given the day’s win by virtue of his Win in the Final. Cleal, on 5 points finished 3rd, and Foster on 8 points finished 4th. Alexander came in 5th on 10 points. In the Championship proper, Smithson increased his lead over Cleal to where he now has a slender 4 points lead going into the last round. Mike Bell, having a poor round by his standards, remains in 3rd overall, but the gap to the front two has increased. Kemp moves up to 4th position overall along with Alexander in 5th.

In the Masters sub-class, Gray won the day with 0 points, followed by Cleal with 4 points. Foster took 3rd with 6 points and Alexander 4th with 8 points. Kemp rounded up the top five with 10 points. In the Championship it’s all change at the front. Cleal maintains the lead, though it is Kemp who takes up the Challenge ( by drop option) with Alexander equal on points. David Waldron, unusually, had a poor day and having already used up his drop option slipped to 4th. Steve Groves stays in contact in 5th place.

Gray won the day in the Veteran section, Cleal again in 2nd spot, Alexander in 3rd, Groves in 4th and O’Neill in 5th. It is Cleal, however, that remains in the Championship lead from Alexander, Waldron, Groves and Rob Mortimore in 5th.
In the BLUE Legend sub-class Gray took a clean sweep of points from O’Neill and David Goode. Robin Stoddart-Stones came in 4th ahead of Ron Shone. In the Championship, it is John Hartshorne, using his drop-option, who maintains his lead from Shone, Stoddart-Stones, Gray and O’Neill.

Paul Alexander won with minimum points in the last of the sub-classes, namely BLUE Top Weight. Taylor Waldron finished 2nd with David Waldron, Mortimore and Shone sharing 3rd place on 8 points each. In the overall classification, David Waldron maintains his lead from Mortimore, Shone, Alexander and Tom Parker.

The Championship now takes a long break before the final round, which carries a 100-point non-attendance penalty, at the Mansell Race Circuit, in Devon, on 27th August.
For more results view the Results page on the www.planetkarting.uk website or CLICK HERE
For details and photos of 2022 winners CLICK HERE

A roasting hot June weekend at Lydd was the scene for the recent installment of the TABOR Customer Championship. Despite the Parilla Tab-Tag engines being liquid-cooled, a little more caution on the carburettor jetting was necessary.
The racing was intense with drivers hydrating as much as possible throughout the weekend. As, in the previous race, the first two, Anth Cleal and Joey Foster could only be separated by the finest of margins. In this case 0.001 of a second !
In the end, it was a win for Cleal by 0.1 of a second over Foster. Alex Kemp finished 3rd with an overall points tally of 18, Kevin O’Neill 4th, with 13 points and Robin Stoddart-Stones 5th with 11 points.
In the Championship standings, Cleal increases his lead over Foster by 2 points. Kemp moves up to 3rd, Rob Mortimore slips to 4th and Mike Bell holds station in 5th.
The next scoring round of the TABOR Champs is at Forest Edge on July 2nd .
For more info / results please view the www.planetkarting.uk website on the Results page
OR CLICK HERE