It was a great turnout and the weather was absolutely brilliant!! It couldn’t have been any better than it was.

The State Titles are run as 4 heats and a final with 11 classes represented with some of Australia’s best drivers in attendance.

On Saturday the 31st the racing began with the young junior lights first up, we had Lucy and Sam (Normous) Kempster, with their nerves racing in a large field of hungry drivers ready to race. Lucy’s nerves proving too hard to control with her spinning out on the third lap of the first race, as the weekend went on the nerves definitely settled with Normous improving each race. He started 12th in the final and made his way to tenth, Lucy was doing well and was next to Sam in the final in 11th position she was full of determination and battled hard jumping 6 places in the race and finishing well earned 5th.

In the Statesmans we had big bad Bob Cronin representing K.I he didn’t have much luck with the Scrutineers having a kart 10kg under weight, he now holds the state record for the longest time to have a kart pass scrutineering. Following in the footsteps of Eddy the eagle from Winter Olympics Bob received great crowd support.

In the 125cc lights we had Jack Buick and Steve Zealand. Jack’s first race he was a little rattled after realising that the person in front of him in first position was actually a girl, Jack also had a fairly frightening roll over getting stuck under the kart, he managed to kick the kart off and walking away with only minor injuries. Zig Zag Zealand had a slow start to the weekend struggling with kart setup he finally cracked a good setup enabling him to battle his way forward in the pack.

In the 125cc heavies we had Steve Kempster and Darren Barnes, Steve’s first race was an absolute blinder running second until the very last bend when he blew out a rear tyre!!