NATSKA Kart championship rounds 8 & 9

An excellent 2 day’s racing for NATSKA Kart championship rounds 8 & 9 at Whilton Mill kart circuit. Blazing sunshine for the 2 days of racing made it even more enjoyable.

Saturdays Round 8 Saw Harry finish the day in P4 with some great results:

Heat 1 – Starting 20th on the grid saw him climb up the group to finish in 10th place making up 10 positions.

Heat 2 – Starting in 10th place on the grid saw some great battling to finish the heat in 4th place.

Heat 3 – Starting in 22nd place saw Harry have a great race making up 15 places to finish the heat in 7th place

Heat 4 – Starting in 6th place on the grid managed to gain another 2 places, finishing in 4th place.

• Heat 1 – Starting in 20th – Finished P10
• Heat 2 – Starting in 10th – Finished P4 
• Heat 3 – Starting in 22nd – Finished P7
• Heat 4 – Starting in 6th – Finished P4
  

These results classified him finishing in P4 for the day on a grid of 29.

Sunday's Round 9 saw Harry finish in P3 for the day continuing his great results.

Heat 1 – Starting in 16th place, this heat did not go to plan when what they call a racing incident happened whilst Harry was overtaking someone on the long straight up to Christmas corner. The other driver decided to turn into harry which caused them to touch wheels lifting harry on top of the other driver taking them both off track causing a red flag. Ambulance had to come on track for the other driver who ended up being ok with no injury’s other than to his Kart. With no damage to Harry’s kart unfortunately was not allowed to continue because he was involved in the red flag, so he had to retire from the heat which was not continued due to the time taken.

Heat 2 – After getting the kart checked over at scrutineering because of the kart. Harry was given the all clear to continue so Starting in 10th place he had a blinder of a race finishing the heat in P3, he was then promoted to P1 due to disqualifications to the P1 & P2 drivers for noncompliance of the rules.

Heat 3 – Starting all the way back in 22nd place he had another great heat managing to make his way through the pack to finish in 11th place.

Heat 4 – Starting in a rare 4th place he got a rocket start off the line to go into P1 off the first corner managing to stay ahead of the group to the finish line taking P1 for the heat.

• Heat 1 – Starting in 16th Place – Finished Retired
• Heat 2 – Starting in 10th place – Finished P1
• Heat 3 – Starting in 22nd place – Finished P11
• Heat 4 – Starting in 4th place – Finished P1
  

This classified Harry in P3 for the day's racing.

Very unlucky not to have won this day’s racing. Would it not have been for him having to retire in heat 1 after the incident he would have claimed P1.

A great weekend of racing with rapid pace over the 2 days with the glorious weather helping to make it a great 2 day event.

Onwards and upwards now to start prepping for rounds 10 & 11 at LLandow kart circuit in Cardiff in a few weeks’ time.

Visit Harry's website for more info and to follow his journey.