Joel wins at Leaders and Senior Members Karting Champs
Whilst the leaders of our clubs usually play a support role at these championships to the young people they give up there time for. This time the leaders and senior members were given the chance to get on the track themselves to see whether there were any potential challengers to Jensen and Lewis or they could go as fast as the kids!
After talking the talk in the pre race briefing Keith Hurst from Frenford was surely down as a favourite although there were a few sceptics who wondered if he could live up to his own hype! The aim of each race was to record the fastest lap. Your lap time from the two races was then added together and your overall score was calculated. Mark Cory from Wivenhoe YG set the early pace and was the only one of the first fourteen drivers to go under 20 seconds with a time of 19.849. The next five drivers stepped up to the mark though and with under a second separating all of them Lee Cranmer, Josh Hector and Joel Cooper all recorded a lap time under 20 seconds to put themselves in the top three. For those of you who were wondering where Keith Hurst was at this point he had cruised in with a lap time of 24.281 that placed him at the foot of the standings.
Onto race 2 and Mark Cory knew he had to set a fast lap time to give himself a shot at a podium finish, again he went under 20 seconds and it would come down to the final five drivers with the pressure on to see what they could produce. The final race saw Sam Woodgate, Lee Cranmer, Haydn Walters, Joel Cooper and Josh Hector all go under 20 seconds with Josh recording the fastest lap of the day 19.106. This wasn’t enough to secure him top spot though, with two consistent drives Joel took 1st place, with Josh and Lee coming in second and third and the unlucky Mark finishing fourth.
Congratulations to all the racers who took part and we will look forward to the return of the young people to the track in the 11-13’s and 14-19’s Championship in the New Year.
| Position |
Name |
Club |
1st Race |
2nd Race |
Score |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
1 |
Joel Cooper |
Ingatestone B.O.C. |
19.386 |
19.345 |
38.731 |
2 |
Josh Hector |
Ingatestone B.O.C. |
19.811 |
19.106 |
38.917 |
3 |
Lee Cranmer |
Ingatestone B.O.C. |
19.674 |
19.353 |
39.027 |
4 |
Mark Cory |
Wivenhoe Y.G. |
19.849 |
19.447 |
39.296 |
5 |
Sam Woodgate |
Colchester Senior Members |
20.333 |
19.259 |
39.592 |
6 |
Hayden Walters |
Ingatestone B.O.C. |
20.116 |
19.520 |
39.636 |
7 |
Andrew Collings |
Colchester Senior Members |
20.481 |
20.366 |
40.847 |
8 |
Ben Cook |
4 Youth |
20.918 |
20.648 |
41.566 |
9 |
Darrell Tyler |
4 Youth |
21.097 |
20.678 |
41.775 |
10 |
Roger Cottee |
Colchester Senior Members |
21.446 |
20.392 |
41.838 |
11 |
Alex Szymanski |
Colchester Senior Members |
21.527 |
20.323 |
41.850 |
12 |
Charles Adejumo |
Frenford |
21.260 |
20.682 |
41.942 |
13 |
Adrian Simcock |
4 Youth |
21.223 |
20.943 |
42.166 |
14 |
Darrell King |
Frenford |
22.048 |
20.857 |
42.905 |
15 |
Chris Hirst |
Wivenhoe Y.G. |
21.637 |
21.588 |
43.225 |
16 |
Alice Hirst |
Wivenhoe Y.G. |
23.208 |
22.363 |
44.564 |
17 |
Paul Iseghohi |
Frenford |
22.894 |
21.820 |
44.714 |
18 |
Keith Hurst |
Frenford |
24.281 |
21.690 |
45.971 |
19 |
Ellie Gornall |
Wivenhoe Y.G. |
24.069 |
22.201 |
46.270 |
