Ballarat Kart Club

2 days ago

The first club-day of the year saw some old and new faces at the track, ready to kick off the year. With 2hrs practice 3x heats and a final, as always club-day proves to be great value for track time. The club also enjoyed seeing new members having their first race at Ballarat including Blake Graham, Mitchel Arrow and Taylah Allen.

The Senior class was ran with KA3 Senior light out-front and Victoria Combined Light behind. The Vic combined class giving opportunity for KA3 to join the conventional Tag-R-Light field. A good field of 9x Victoria Combined Light and 2x KA2 Senior Light had a good mix of karts and drivers, with some close racing all the way through the field.

Unfortunately heat race 1 saw several incidents leading to a few DNF’s and one of them leaving our new member Taylah Allen with a left injured hand. We wish Taylah a speedy recovery.

With the cob-webs blown off, the remaining heat races were far more sensible, with some good close racing, Jordan Malcolm was out front in the Exprit KA3 kart, with Victoria Combined Light heat wins taken by Blake Graham, John Page and Bill West.

Although a few members had mechanical issues, fellow racers were on hand to lend a hand and get on track. With all drivers making adjustments, improving on setup and results through the day.
Vic Combined Light Results: John Page 1st, Bill West 2nd, Blake Graham 3rd
KA3 Light Results: Jordan Malcom 1st, Taylah Allen 2nd

KA4 Junior heavy class included Sisters Grace Dunmore, Ella Dunmore and Lachlan Clark all doing their time on P-Plates, and continually improving. Everyone had a turn out-front with the sisters Grace and Ella sharing the heat race wins and Lachlan winning the final.
KA4 Junior Heavy Results: Grace Dunmore 1st, Ella Dunmore 2nd and Lachlan Clark 3rd

Bring a mate was once again held with club members offering up a kart to a mate to have a go in a controlled improvement. Raising interest with potential new Karter’s to get the bug and go racing! Remember, we will run bring a mate at every club day, so get a mate involved.

Next race meeting for most is the Country Series at Portland, and we will follow up with Club-day on the 31st March. Remember, bring a mate, get organised, get entered and let’s go racing! ... See MoreSee Less

Ballarat Kart Club

1 week ago

CLUB-DAY this Sunday!!!
Come and join us for the first club-day of the year.
Bring a mate sessions will be offered once again, and remember you can race 1x meeting on a practice licence!!
Practice from 9am
Drivers briefing 11am
Racing from 11.15,
2x heats and a Final
Don’t wait, please pre-enter.
Canteen will be open and we will put on a BBQ at the conclusion of racing.
Remember, bring a mate, get organised, get entered and let’s go racing ... See MoreSee Less

Ballarat Kart Club shared Joe Fawcett's photo.

2 weeks ago

Tough competition at round 1 for Joe, but still a solid result considering the bad luck.This weekend was the first round of the Australian Kart Championship in Ipswich. I ended up 13th in the final, out of 36
Qualified 11th
Heat 1 3rd
Heat 2 27th got turned around on restart went to the back
Heat 3 11th
Heat 4 14th
Final 13th ... See MoreSee Less