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Lydd January 18th; 4th overall and 3rd in Clubmans. A good start to the year but there's room for improvement. Full report follows. Results
Buckmore Park March 2nd Round 1 MSA BEKC: no more Clubmen, but we got 6th overall. A good result, as much from good teamwork and excellent preparation as pure speed. Details? and results
Bayford Meadow April 4th Round 2 MSA BEKC: its was the tyres - honestly! That and the bent chassis. We came 9th and still got a trophy, so read about it. Results
Lydd International April 26th Round 3 MSA BEKC: we continue with an unbroken run of trophies since we bought the 7kart with a 10th place finish. Full report and results
Clay Pigeon May 17th Round 4 MSA BEKC: we came 7th in a meteorologically challenged and challenging race, and on the day we only had two thirds of our team there. Report and results.
Llandow June 21st Rounds 5 & 6 MSA BEKC: in Round 5 the engine blew up - but we still didn't come last and in Round 6 we continued to pile up the pots with a 9th place finish. Report and results.
Ellough August 2nd Round 7 MSA BEKC: it was the chassis, it was the petrol and finally it was the electrics and ultimately we were 12th.......................Report and results.
Bayford Meadows August 29th Round 8 MSA BEKC: it was interesting in that it showed what a dramatic effect a bad set of tyres can make - 2 secs a lap! We came 12th after our chain came off. Report and results.
Clay Pigeon September 19th Round 9 MSA BEKC: 7th is our second best result of the Championship. It was an interesting race...very interesting. Report and results.
Bayford Meadows October 18th, Promax Winter Series Round 1, and one to forget. Except that there's always something new learnt. Report and results.
Buckmore Park November 22nd, Promax Winter Series Round 2: 8th was a good solid result in nasty weather conditions. Report and results.
Bayford Meadows December 22nd, Promax Winter Series Round 3: the last race of the year, and that's all you need to know - just don't ask......Oh, OK here's the report. And the results.
Titan win the MSA BEKC Championship for 2003:
Titan came second at Bayford in August but it was enough to tie up the Championship for 2003. They have driven superbly all season and thoroughly deserve to win. After their victory they posted some interesting thoughts on the Championship on the Karting.co.uk web site forum - have a look. And then there was the enormously entertaining complementary post by 'chinoloco' on 7th September. Since he prefers to remain anonymous, we will respect that, and what he says makes a lot of sense. And for Red Stripe Racing? Well, we came 10th just a few points behind Special Racing Projects, and now we can start the litany of what ifs, and if onlys. But the fact is that when we started, a top ten finish in the Championship would have been a result to dream about. More importantly we have had a massive amount of fun this year and our only real regret is that more people did not understand or appreciate the advantages of the Promax endurance class and that because of this lack of support the BEKC in its present form has no future in 2004.
3rd place in the EKC Winter Series 2002/3:
We got 3rd place in the Endurance Kart Championship Winter Series. GP Racing got 2nd and Cobra were 1st in the Clubman Class. Titan won the Experts with a rather unnecessarily supremacist display of 1st places. We were planning to compete on February 1st 2003 in the last round of the series since we had a real chance to overtake GP Racing for 2nd and a slightly more theoretical chance of sharing 1st place with Cobra. But although Bayford announced the race would go ahead, we were going to have serious problems getting two thirds of the team and the trailer out of Cambridge through the snow, and James took one look at the overnight forecast for the circuit and decided he wasn't going to make a 450 mile round trip from Wales on the off chance that it wasn't going to snow more or freeze over. This meant that we had to be content with the three rounds we had already taken part in.
Richard Staley is 3rd from right
with James Michell next to him
and Thomas Robinson in front of both of them.
Photograph by Sue Poole courtesy of Karting Magazine.
For results of our racing in 2001 please click here.
For results of our racing in 2002 please click here.
For results of our racing in 2004 please click here.
For results of our racing in 2005 please click here.
For results of our racing in 2006 please click here.
For results of our racing in 2007 please click here.
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