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20 April 2009
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Quality not Quantity - 17:29 - Adge
14 year old Adgespeed backed Junior Rotax frontrunner Andy King travelled back down to Buckmore Park this weekend for some pre-Super 1 practice prior to June's Round 3 date and almost repeated his previous performance of a clean sweep were it not for a coolant spillage on track!
On only his 6th visit and 2nd as a Junior Rotax driver, King set an untouchable blistering pace in Saturday practice finishing off with a performance just 2 tenths away from the 2007 lap record and the fastest recorded driver of the day throughout all classes.
A small (13) but quality grid of several Super 1 frontrunners who were also getting some last minute practice in set the scene for some fantastic high quality racing and none of them were to disappoint.
In timed qualification King took the honours by a mere tenth from Josh Webster which gave a pole position start for heat 1.
A text book start and lights to flag victory with no answer from the main opposition again set King as pole man for the pre-final.
Again another text book start saw the Rochdale youngster pull what was going to be a lead out of reach for the rest of the field until a coolant spillage from a driver resulted in King hitting it first and covering his tyres causing lack of traction, this allowed several drivers to take the advantage to pass and left King having to drive the best he could to keep the kart on the black stuff, several other competitors came in thinking they had punctured tyres their karts handled so bad only to find they too had the spillage on their tyres. King worked back to 4th but with 3rd place unachievable the quick thinking Maranello driver slowed to allow 5th place driver to pass thus giving King 5th place and more importantly the inside line for the grand final.
With 15 laps ahead King had already set out his game plan which he executed to the finest detail starting off with gaining 4th place by the end of lap 1. Over the next few laps he started to hunt down the next driver and had by lap 8 taken both 2nd and 3rd place driver to put him in P2 but by now with a larger mountain to climb to the leader than he had hoped for.
King's kart by lap 10 was now on song and whilst pulling away from 3rd and 4th place drivers King started to reel in 1st place driver Josh Webster, by the final lap board King was still at least 8 kart lengths behind but by the time they hit the downhill gradient that had been reduced to 4 and what has been described by many as the manoeuvre of all manoeuvres King cleanly outbraked and powered past Webster to command the next final 3 corners and take the flag and the fastest lap, less than a mere 2 tenths off the 2007 record.
So 3 out of 4 and two fastest laps.
King travels to Rowrah this weekend for round 2 of Super 1 where he hopes to continue his consistent form to date.
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01 April 2009
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Karting News - 12:16 - Adge
Mr Consistent, Adgespeed backed Junior Rotax driver Andy King, started 6 weeks ago by wrapping up the PFi Winter series followed by a series of wins and podium finishes. His run of form culminated in an emphatic and faultless drive last weekend at Wigan's Three Sisters circuit to take a well deserved win, bringing his podium visits to 6 in 6 races over 6 weekends!
The RS10 Maranello seems to adapt easily with very little work to all UK circuits so far and performs exactly as Andy requires.
This weekend will see Andy compete in the first round of the prestigious Super 1 event at Whilton Mill, Daventry against some of the very best in the UK. Consistency is the name of the game and King has plenty of that.
New Event Report - 12:15 - Adge
A new event report is now available from the Tour of Caerwent Rally.
Next Event - 12:13 - Adge
The team now has a few months before the next round The Rally of the Midlands on June 19/20th as the Millbrook Rally which was to be the next round has been cancelled.
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25 March 2009
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Next Event - 12:10 - Adge
Sunday 29th March sees the 2nd round of the BTRDA Asphalt Rally Series 2009. Taking place at the MOD base at Caerwent in south wales and offering 7 stages with a total of 70 miles. Seeded at car 11 this event will be a tough challenge for Adrian and Mark as they have never been to the venue before and have no experience of the stages, whereas their main championship rivals have competed there before. Hopefully the knowledge gained will be useful as the championship returns to the venue in September.
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