Juniors showcase impressive skills at Karting event

Motorsport fans were wowed with some of the best Kart racing and young driver skills on the island this year at Bushy Park last Sunday for round eight of the SDRR Motorsports/Cheffette Restaurants Barbados Karting Association 2016 Championship.

 

In mixed track conditions caused by the weather conditions the action started in wet conditions with competitors having to switch from the normal racing slicks and go to the grooved rain tyre design that pumps the water away and produced rooster tails of water and spray from them for Practice session, Qualifying session and the first two races. The track conditions then dried up enough for the competitors to switch back to the normal racing Slick for the last three races in their group races. 

 

Starting the day off as usual were the youngsters in the 60cc EasyKart Class, these kids range from six-year-olds to 12-year-olds, boys and girls competing in identical 60cc powered IAME engines producing 8HP & Birel designed Chassie Karts. They were on rain tyres for Qualifying and the surprise was youngest driver in class six-year-old Daniel Ullyett putting in his best qualifying performance to date. Qualifying Sixth overall with a 66.145 second lap and the top three in qualifying where all in the 62+ second bracket. Third was Alex Powell, second Charlie Kerridge and starting on pole Calem Maloney with the fastest time of 62.383 seconds.

 

As the conditions changed during the three class races the overall points for the day changed when points leader Calem Maloney and Kyffin Simpson got involved in a racing incident and unfortunately for young Maloney, he was unable to finish the race and was not able to complete a hat-trick of wins for the day. This also then moved Kyffin Simpson forward to win the Class with 64 points. Charlie Kerridge took second with 57 points, third Alex Powell - 53 points, fourth Calem Maloney – 50 points, fifth Isabela Powell – 46 points, sixth Colin Bradshaw – 64 points, seventh Daniel Ullyett – 38 points, eighth Jayden Thompson – 37 points, ninth Sophia Simpson – 35 points and tenth Arman Suleman – 21 points. And the fastest Lap in this 60cc Class was also won by winner Kyffin Simpson with a time of  57.054 seconds.

 

The other races for the day merged the other Barbados Karting Association Classes with the Clubs oldest Class the 100cc Yamaha 310lb being won by the reigning BKA 2015 Champion Driver Nicholas Gill in his SDRR Motorsport sponsored  kart with 54 points after winning all his races in this class, and winning the fastest lap in class with a 53.491 seconds lap. Second in class was Andrew Croney with 32 points. 

 

The 125cc X30 Class was also hotly contested for the day with Points leader Christian Hinds win in the first and only race for the day then due to mechanical gremlins, this allowed Ricky Kirton who finished second in the first race a clear shot at winning the final two races in the class and taking home the class win for the day with 71 points, Ricky always took home the fastest lap in class trophy with a 50.932 second lap time, second was Calvin Bartlett with 52 points, third Reco Alkins – 42 points, fourth Theo Howard – 34 points and in an unfamiliar fifth position Christian Hinds – 25 points.