The last National Kart Racing Association Regional round was held along with the South West Championship at Mansell Raceway on 27th August. In a dramatic turn around Harry Smithson, who held a 5-point lead over Anthony Cleal before the weekend failed to start in Heat 2. He still had good results in the other pair of Heats but as a consequence of the dropped one managed a grid start of P6 for the Final. Cleal, however, scored well in his heats and would start 2nd in the Final, cutting the points deficit to one point, so all Cleal had to do was beat Smithson in the Final to win the Championship. Following the lights change Cleal dropped to 3rd and Smithson was up to 4th, so the game was on !!
Into lap 2 and Cleal was up to 2nd. A lap later Smithson had squeezed into 3rd place. At the front, the two MAC Karts of Foster and Cleal raced as though they were as one! Cleal managed to pass Foster on lap 6 and held it to the end, with Foster glued to his rear bumper. Smithson hadn’t given up and finished only 1.5 seconds adrift. The Regional Title was Anthony Cleal’s again. Behind the front three, Mike Bell maintained his pace to finish 4th with Paul Alexander in a creditable 5th place.
Cleal and Foster also shared the Master sub-class, again with 2 points each. Alexander took 3rd Spot but only 1 point ahead of Chris Lord. Stuart Adam finished 5th. Overall, Cleal wins the Regionals from Alexander, Alex Kemp, Dave Waldron and Steve Groves.
In the Veteran section, it was Cleal taking a clean sweep at the front with Alexander and Lord sharing 2nd place from Waldron, Groves and Rob Mortimore.
In the last of the age category sub-classes, the Legends, Lord was the clear winner, 2nd on the day was Robin Stoddart-Stones from Ron Shone and John Hartshorne. It was Hartshorne, however, who claimed the yearly title from Shone by the narrowest of margins, 1 point. Had the scores been equal, Shone would have won by virtue of his superior drop option. Stoddart-Stones finished 3rd overall.
Paul Alexander won the day in the Top Weight class from Stuart Adam. In the overall results, it is David Waldron who emerges as Champion from Rob Mortimore and Ron Shone.
With the regional rounds now over, competitors now prepare themselves for the Grande Finals, which are scheduled for the 23rd and 24th of September at Mansell Raceway.
In the Cadet Honda Class, Devon Giles secured an unopposed win.
The Junior Blue class experienced a complete run around where Alfie Lenton secured pole from Rudie Winslow-Morten and Jack Gillett. In the Final, however, Lenton spun, on a damp patch, going into the first bend. Winslow-Morten held the lead until lap 8 when he pulled into the pits reacting to a faulty engine temperature sensor display readout! A greatly improved Gillett won the Final with a recovered Lenton only 0.9 seconds behind!
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Anthony Cleal and Joey Foster shared the top points, scoring 2 points apiece. Third on the day was Chris Lord, equal 4th was Mike Bell and Rob Mortimore.
In the overall £1000 prize fund positions, Cleal still holds 1st spot, 26 points ahead of Foster. Mortimore moves up to 3rd and £200, displacing Alex Kemp who was a non-attendee! In 5th place is Mike Bell, racing hard to catch up a poor points-scoring situation at the last meeting.
The next scoring round is on September 10th at the 2 Counties Club round held at Clay Pigeon.

For more details and up-to-date positions and points please view the results page on the www.planetkarting.uk website or CLICK HERE

Tabor Karting will be in attendance, as usual, at Mansell Raceway on 26th & 27 August, for the S.W. Championships, which also includes the NKRA 2023 Championship Final round, for Cadet HONDA , Junior BLUE and Formula BLUE.
Competitors requiring tyres/spares for all classes for this event, to ensure delivery /collection on race weekend, please order and purchase your requirements in advance, prior to 12 noon on Wednesday 23rd August. Thanks and see you there.
Telephone 01305 774074

Competitors are advised that entries are now open for the, TWO COUNTIES CLUB CHAMPIONSHIP ( Round 4) on Sunday 10th September 2023 at the Clay Pigeon Circuit.
Practice is available on Friday and Saturday the 8th & 9th of September. The Sunday race is entered on the Clay Pigeon Web link. (The link for entries is also at the foot of this news brief). 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 2nd September. 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 THE CLAY PIGEON WEBSITE OR CLICK HERE

TO VIEW THE 2 COUNTIES CHAMPIONSHIP RESULTS TO DATE GO TO THE RESULTS PAGE ON THE
www.planetkarting.uk WEBSITE or – CLICK HERE

FOR THE TWO COUNTIES KART CLUB RESULTS UPDATE AFTER FOREST EDGE ON 6th AUGUST

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The top two in the TABOR customer championship finished 1st and 2nd at the Forest Edge scoring round. It was second-place racer Joey Foster, however, who scored maximum points over Anth Cleal. These two continue at the front of the Championship with Cleal still in the lead ahead of Foster. 3rd on the day, Rob Mortimore stays in 4th place overall but closes down on 3rd place Alex Kemp. Mike Bell holds on to the 5th spot overall, though he has been closed down by Dave Waldron to a slim margin of 2 points.
The next scoring round takes place on August 27th at Mansell Raceway in Devon.

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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