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Karting News Briefs

1 July 2016

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updates and info from the world of karting...

• For the first time in Tasmania, TaG Restricted will be offered as a championship class at the 2016 Tasmanian Kart Championship at Highclere Raceway on 18 to 20 November. The North Western Kart Club in conjunction with Karting Tasmania announced the 12 classes that will compete are:
  • Cadet 9, Cadet 12, KA4 Junior Light, KA4 Junior Heavy, KA3 Junior, KA3 Senior Light, KA3 Senior Heavy, TAS Sportsman KA4, Senior TaG Restricted Light, TaG Restricted Heavy, TaG 125 Light, TaG 125 Heavy.
    
    
• Supp Regs for the 2016 City of Melbourne Titles next month are now available - downloaded the PDF by clicking HERE.
  
  This will be the 32nd running of the CoM. While the event is a 3-dayer, only Seniors will have track sessions on the Friday. Juniors will take to the circuit for practice on Saturday morning, after which all clases will do their qualifying run.
  
  The event will be held over three days (12, 13, 14 August) and entries close August 8.
  
  
• The Official race program for this weekend's Australian Kart Championship round 4 at Ipswich is online - click HERE to read the free 36-page publication. Includes entry list and timetable.
  
  
• Retro Karting Australia has revealed detail of the 2016 RKA Nationals.
  
  
  
• Speaking of RKA, the organisation is now an officially incorporated body. "At this stage we have done it simply to keep things proper when it comes to running the whole thing and having bank accounts and the like" the organisation's Paul McKinnon informed KartSportNews. "Once we have the necessary stuff sorted out and Stony Creek has been run and won, we will have another sit down and work out the bigger goals".
  
  
  
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• NASCAR star Danica Patrick's dad, TJ Patrick, has started up a kart race team. Patrick Karting was established to "help guide those looking to take their talents to the next level with sound education and connecting with the proper channels". Based out of Indianapolis, Patrick Karting is focused on working with Rookie, Cadet and Junior racers that have the drive and talent (and, one must presume, budget!) to be among the best.
  
  Above: TJ Patrick with Cadet racer Rylee Engel (Photo: Kathy Churchill, USPKS)
  
  
  
• Historic Karting Victoria has advised that Roslyn Ward, wife of former AKA President Peter Ward, has passed away. "We offer our sincere condolences to Peter. R.I.P Roslyn." - Geoff Wade, HKV President.
  
  
• Swan Hill Automotive Group Cup (ie, the Sun Centre Titles) is on this Sunday, July 3rd. The track was open today and will be open again tomorrow for practice. Camping is available on site with toilet and shower facilities. Catering available on Saturday and Sunday:
  
  
  
• The Rock Island Grand Prix will welcome Vintage karters to the racing program for 2016, after having competed as an exhibition class for the three previous years. The planned Vintage classes are: 1) Open class 100cc foreign, 120cc, 130cc; 2) 100cc/120cc fan-cooled American, and 3) Rear engine karts and "participation" drivers (who want to be there but not really race).
  
  
• How many kart tracks are located on a busy road? Gippsland Go Kart Club's Tramway Park Raceway graces the old Princes Highway in Morwell. The club has just rejuvinated this old billboard trailer to give passers by, and those stopped at the traffic lights, something to read. The date of each next event will be placed in the space above the wheel arch.
  
  pic - Steve Dansie
  
  
• Supp Regs for the C&D Grade Titles are now available - click HERE to download. Karters should note that all the racing for this event (and qualifying) will now take place on the Sunday only. Saturday is reserved just for practice. The circuit can be accessed from 8am on Friday August 5 for pit setup only.
  
  
  
• The father of a Junior MAX driver at the recent UK Super One Series round is lucky to be alive after being trapped under a truck in the pits. Luckily a group of people nearby were able to lift the truck allowing him to breath. Racing was stopped so that medical assistance was able to be given. Further report is on the kartingmagazine website HERE.
  
  
• Whyalla City Titles this weekend:
  
  
  
• Long-time karter Russell Becker has been elected President at the recent AGM of the Combined Districts Kart Club. "We would all like to thank Belinda Columbrita for the excellent job she has done as President for the past two years" the club published on its website. Executive positions below:
  • President: Russell Becker
  • Vice President: Russell Grimson
  • Secretary & Membership Officer: Lilian Stones
  • Treasurer: Gillian Martin
    
    
• The Dirt Trackers Kart Club in Western Australia has been rocked to the core in the past week with the passing of three of its members within a 24 hour period - John Day, Ken Mears and Ron Glazebrook. "On behalf of the members of the Dirt Trackers Kart Club, we offer our sincerest condolences and deepest sympathies to the families directly affected by the sudden passing of these gentlemen" the club wrote on Facebook. "It is very clear from the vast number of messages on Facebook that Mr Day, Mr Mears and Mr Glazebrook have positively impacted a huge number of people not only involved with the Dirt Trackers Kart Club, but in all walks of life. To Justine and David, Nadine and Larry, Lisa and Steve, Kylie and Paul, Courtney, Madison and Georgia (Day family), Glen, Melissa, Taylah, Chloe, Bree and Leah (Mears family) and Scott, Kelly, Bree-ann and Diesel (Glazebrook family), may your loved ones rest in peace. We may not be a family by lawful definition, but we are here for you like a family." Read more on Dirt Kart World Facebook post HERE.
  
  
• With the AKR round at Ipswich this weekend, it's appropriate to show a couple of photos we never got to publish from the earlier round at Puckapunyal - specifically Matty Smith's off in KZ2!
  
  
  
  
  
  pics - Mark Wicks, KartSportNews
  

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