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29 October 2009
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Adgespeed Win Championship at Cheviot Keith Knox Rally - 20:06 - Adge
A new event report including pictures has been posted from the Cheviot Keith Knox Rally where team Adgespeed of Adrian Spencer and Mark Hewitt won the BTRDA asphalt series championship.
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02 October 2009
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Patriot Stages Rally Results - 12:53 - Adge
Adgespeed driver Adrian Spencer now leads the 2009 BTRDA Asphalt Series Championship after last weekend's Patriot Stages Rally at Caerwent. The event report is available here.
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01 September 2009
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Mewla Rally Results - 00:40 - Adge
A new event report is now available from the Mewla Rally.
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15 June 2009
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King Officially The Fastest Rotax At Buckmore Park! - 14:48 - Adge
14 yr old Junior Rotax frontrunner Andy King traveled down to Buckmore Park this weekend for round three of the Super 1 British Championship and was crowned the fastest Rotax driver of all classes!
Starting with Friday's open practice King was immediately on pace and simply fine tuned each session to finish well ahead of his main competitors with untouchable raw pace, many heads were being scratched that night as well as some wondering whether the 14 yr old Rochdale lad could repeat the same pace in the all important Saturday timed qualifying.
Yes he could and better!
King poled his Maranello RS10 kart and smashed the Buckmore Park lap record along the way. With a now level playing field with everyone using the excellent 09 Rotax engines with scarcely a tenth between each one, this weekend was going to really sort the wheat out from the chaff!
Heat one saw a text book lights to flag victory with King taking fastest lap along the way.
Sunday and with extremely hot conditions, King prepared for heat two and again drove a faultless race with another lights to flag victory and again taking fastest lap along the way.
This gave King the enviable position of pole for the pre-final and with 30 other top British drivers around him it was not going to be all plain sailing for the Adgespeed backed youngster. With 25 laps ahead King had already worked out his pre race plan and after a clean start proceeded to lead into turn one, King was tapped from the rear causing him to run wide allowing Brand and Cowley to cleanly run through, with head down King chased and by the following lap a tight train of three started breaking away from the pack. Unfortunately disaster was to strike, Cowley and King entered side by side into a corner with what was described by most as a "driving incident" but dislodged both karts from P2 and P3. Both continued and King stormed back through the traffic to take a disappointing 2nd whilst closing in fast on race leader Brand lap by lap, King took fastest lap yet again!
Further disaster was to come in the form of a visit to the COC (clerk of the course) where it was deemed King's fault and was excluded from the results, although an appeal was heard the decision still stood.
This put the first year Junior Rotax driver to the rear of the 30 strong grid in what everyone knows would be a mountain to climb to achieve any decent result.
King didn't disappoint.
Putting the previous actions behind him King only had one plan and that was to get as far up the grid as quick as he could and that he did with breathtaking, precise, expert skill.
Picking off competitors sometimes two at a time and down the fast downhill section King was on a mission. Some of his manoeuvres caused applaud, gasps of awe and grateful adulations post race, with a final finish of 5th this simply showed all around what this 14 yr old youngster really is capable of doing under extreme pressure but the icing on the cake was to come when it was realised that not only was King the official fastest Rotax driver of the weekend out of all the classes but he had smashed the Buckmore Park Junior Rotax lap record by over 4/10ths.
Andy wants to thank Steve Ogden (Ogden Motorsport,) Andy Scales (ASR Racing) and the many people for their kind words of support and advice and looks forward to continuing his consistent run of top form for the rest of the racing calender.
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22 May 2009
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Adgespeed backed Andy King Proves he is the Driver to Beat in Junior Rotax - 00:22 - Adge
Junior Max racer Andy King using the Maranello Kart has had a brilliant run of results in 2009, most recently a win in Formula Kart Stars at Glan-y-Gors, where he also won the Prefinal and took the fastest lap, although it was no surprise he was so strong because he totally dominated the club meeting earlier in the month too. Full report from GYG coming soon.
Andy also took fourth in the Super One at Rowrah at the end of April, then a couple of weeks later improved on that by winning the club meeting at Rowrah in preparation for the Formula Kart Stars round later in the season.
His next big race will be the third Super One round at Buckmore on June 14th, where Andy raced back in February, again winning every time he went out on the track.
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