The BHPetrol Racing Team had a team launch yesterday at the Saujana Hotel in Kuala Lumpur. On hand at the event were team drivers Tanapon Nokkaew and Daim Hishammudin, as well as Alex Yoong, Principal of Lotus Driver Development.
Mr Tan Kim Thiam, managing director of Boustead Petroleum Marketing answered questions relating directly to BHPetrol’s involvement in the kart racing team. He hopes that one day a driver from the BHPetrol program will make it all the way to F1.
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The 4th round of the Rotax Max Asia Zone and Malaysia Challenges were held at the Pekan kart circuit in Pahang, Malaysia last weekend. The full results can be viewed on mylaps here. In the Seniors Silvano Christian took the pre-final win but ran into bad luck in the final while in 4th being forced out of the race after contact with a driver that had spun in front of him. Calvin Wong went on to win the race 2 tenths ahead of Senna SN after a 5th in the pre-final. The win was critical as it kept Wong at the front of the Asia Zone standings on even points with Senna, and moved him to a more comfortable lead in the Malaysia standings.
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There was a big turnout for this weekend’s fourth Round of the Rotax Max Challenge 2011. The event was held in Pekan, Pahang – just under an hour south of Kuantan. The event comprised races for four classes – Micromax, Junior Max, Senior Max and DD2.
Local team, Stratos Motorsports, fielded one Malaysian driver in the Junior Category – Daniel Woodroof – and an Indonesian driver, Tommy Rizki, in the Senior Category. In addition, Stratos supported four karters from Blackdog Racing in Singapore – Guy Ermer in DD2 category, Rory Elliott in Micromax, Kyle
Blockley in Seniors and Harry Scott in Juniors.
It was a very hot weekend, with the overnight rains not doing much to reduce the daytime temperatures. On Saturday (July 23) the event consisted of qualifying plus one round of heats for Junior
& Senior and two rounds for DD2 and Micromax.
In the qualifying sessions our best result was in the Junior category where Daniel Woodroof came 1st – an inspired drive on the very last lap to steal poll. Rory Elliott drove well to qualify 3rd in Micromax.
Stratos drivers had mixed results in the heats. Daniel Woodroof in Juniors was consistent, coming second in both heats putting him in a good position for the pre-final. Rory Elliott in MicroMax dnf’d in the first heat with a technical problem but came back strongly to finish 4th in the second heat.
In the pre-finals for Juniors, Daniel led from start to finish and Rory in MicroMax drove a sensible race to come in 2nd.
In the final races for all our drivers:
Guy Ermer came 7th in DD2 category.
Rory Elliott came 3rd in MicroMax category (PODIUM).
Daniel Woodroof came 3rd in Junior category (PODIUM).
Harry Scott came 18th in Junior category.
Kyle Blockley came 6th in Senior category.
Tommy Rizki dnf in Senior category.
Stratos Motorsports is delighted to come away from this event with two podium places. Competition was
fierce in all categories and the drivers and whole team worked hard to achieve these results.
Stratos Motosports now looks forward to the 5th and final round of this event for 2011 which will be
held at Speedway PLUS, Subang, September 17/18, 2011.
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James pull had his best European race meeting earlier this month in the Italian CSAI Karting Championship held at the Vitebro International Circuit North of Rome. After qualifying in 20th of 44 drivers James made it through to the final stages and finished 13th in the final.
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This weekend was the third round of the All Stars Karting Championship 2011 held at the newly re-opened track at Sepang, Malaysia.
Malaysian team, Stratos Motorsports, was there with Malaysian Daniel Woodroof who competed in the KF3 category.
The KF3 event consisted of qualifying, two heats, pre-final and final – all held under clear sunny skies on Sunday July 17.
Daniel qualified third in a strong field and followed that with 4th in heat 1 and 2nd in heat 2. Unfortunately a technical glitch put him way down the field in the pre-final putting him almost at the back of the grid for the start of the final. But Daniel was not to be robbed of a podium. He drove a great race in the final. A good start got him up to 6th place by the first corner. From there he worked his way through the field to second place and a podium finish.
More importantly, this gave Daniel enough points to clinch the championship title for 2011. Even though there is one more round in September, his lead is unassailable. So Daniel Woodroof is the new All Stars Karting KF3 Champion 2011.
The 4th and final round of the All Stars Karting Championship is scheduled for September 24/25 at Speedway PLUS, Subang, Malaysia.
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Bryan Mehta took top honors in the 125 Open category ahead of Tanapon Nokkaew at the 3rd round of the All Stars Karting Series held at the Sepang International Karting Circuit. The two are in the same order at the front of the championship with just 1 point separating them.
Calvin Wong was 1st in the Sonik Sport Asia series after winning 2 of the 3 races held today, while Daniel Woodroof wrapped up the KF3 championship before the final round after a 2nd place finish behind Daim Hishammudin. Japanese driver Ryuta Ueda was in commanding form in the Yamaha Cadets as he won both final races making it 6 wins of 6 races this year. Suhaizarul Suhaizat won both races in Yamaha Juniors bringing him to within 12 points of championship leader Jehan Daruvala.
Results and Standings:
Results Rd3
Points After Rd3
Videos:
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Silvano Christian drove an epic final race in the Indonesian Rotax Max Challenge held in Surabaya on the 10th of July. He had to come back from the back of the field after having his rear bumper fall off in the pre-final. He overtook the entire field to take 1st place in the final.
Below are the top-5 results for all categories.
MICRO MAX
32 Presley martono DKI Djakarta Theatre
23 Perdana putra minang Sumbar Red White Racing
33 Raffif Rabbani Jatim Privateer
19 keanon Santoso DKI TKM Racing
10 Darryl Wenas Jatim Djakarta Theatre-Beagle Master
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I bet all karters wish they had such a high quality promo video of themselves!
From www.jonleexh.com:
With much anticipation and excitement, finally we are able to witness the ‘birth’ of JON’s very own solo video. All thanks to Drakar Racing Team (especially to Mr Raymond Low and Ms Miin Ng) for the great effort and investment. Kudos to Michael, Bob and Nathan (Upside Down Concepts) for spending hours on shooting, editing and adding effects to make this video fun and exciting.
“It was awesome and I had great fun during the video shooting. I am so glad to be part of the Drakar Racing Team and thankful to be given this great opportunity to have my personal video being produced. I hope that this video will attract more sponsors and make them notice my racing abilities & marketing potential.” said Jon.
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Released by the organisers. Schedule and bulletins for this Sunday’s race as well as the current championship points standings.
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Avid hobby karter and car racer Chris Setterington has developed an online kart racing sim called Casual Karting. Point your browser over to www.casualkarting.com to give the game a go.
The game loads in the browser and can be played with your keyboard, joystick, or even steering wheel! The AI competitors seems hopeless but the game has a lot of potential. I couldn’t get my wheel working the way I’d like to so I will give it a proper go later to see what it’s really like.
The sim as explained on the home page:
Casualkarting.com began as an idea to teach children the basics of karting by simulation before letting them loose on the track. With advances in technology, it is evolving from not only being a teaching tool, but into a community based race simulator.
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Mutiara Damansara, Thursday: After a long break, the hotly contested Sonik Sport Asia Series continues at the Sepang International Circuit this weekend 17th July, arguably one of the most high-tech and technically challenging tracks in the calendar.
Sepang Go-Kart Circuit which is part of the ‘compound’ of the Formula One Circuit, has been established as one of the finest karting circuit in the Asian region, and with its newly refurbished facilities, it’s set to welcome the Sonik Sport Asia drivers with full enthusiasm. The circuit itself, run clock-wise, has a very smooth tarmac surface, the same material used on the Formula One Circuit, added with corners resemblance of the big circuit, making racing here full of overtaking opportunities.
For the first time this weekend, there will be no less 15 drivers representing five countries namely, Malaysia, Indonesia, India, Sri Lanka and Philippines. There will be the return of some of the top drivers in the region, including Kosmic’s BHPetrol Racing driver, Wei Ron Tan, Gillard’s IS Racing, Farriz Fauzy, CRG Junior Team Asia’s Calvin Wong and not to forget the young protégé of 14-year old Syazwan Mohd Noor who just returned from Ortona, Italy for the CIK/FIA Academy Trophy race.
Nabil Jeffri of Comma Motorsport onboard the GP Racing kart is currently leading the Sonik Senior category leaderboard, with 123 points, followed by young sensation, Syazwan Mohd Noor of Dash Racing with 110 points. Sonik Master is lead by Jeremy Nyam of RL Karting on board the Birel Chassis with 123 points followed closely by his team-mate from Sri Lanka, Romani De Silva with 95 points. Watch-out for new-comer, Lai Wee Sing of IS Racing who in the last event won two out of three races and will be making further progress in the Sonik Master standings.
Two new exciting entries to the series will be Malaysian Timothy Yeo, 14 and India’s hopeful Parth Ghorpade, 17. Parth Ghorpade is a two time Rotax Max Junior Champion and last year’s Rotax Senior Champion in his home country, India. Currently he is competing in the Autosport Academy F4 Renault 1.6 Eurocup. 14 year-old Timothy Yeo is the son of Asian multiple touring car champion, Eric Yeo and has notched up impressive results in the regional racing league and now competes for CRG Junior Team Asia in the Asian Karting Open Championship.
As usual, race day on Sunday will begin with Official Free Practice followed by Qualifying.
Race 1’s starting grid will be the result of Qualifying while Race 2 will be the finishing order of Race 1 with the top eight grid being reversed, providing interesting race for the teams and spectators. Race 3’s grid will be the second best qualifying time order. Sonik Sport Asia Series is the new ultimate one-make series for karting utilizing Maxter’s extensive research in the internationally recognized KF engine concept, providing competitors and teams with the access to state-of –art technology kart racing at an affordable price and cost-effective. All engines are strictly scrutinized and sealed to provide absolute equality. The 32 horsepower Sonik Sport engine is recommended to run up to 40 hours before rebuild. Extensive test has been carried out by Series Organizer, Iru1 Motorsports Sdn Bhd, to ensure the engine run at its optimum level performance while maintaining the reliability of the engine. The results so far has been impressive with lap times continue to match the benchmark KF2 machines.
Series CEO, Sonik Sport Asia Series, Nik Iruwan Dato’ Nik Izani commented: “Sonik Sport engines continue to impress the karting market with its impressive performance and reliability which together with organized and fair play event, we are confident that Sonik Sport Asia Series will continue to grow into a very important one-make series in the future. The presence of important drivers and teams in the region is resemblance of this and we are proud to see the grid continue to grow from each round. We would like to thank Maxter Srl for the support and the organizing committee for putting up a good job the event. We look forward to see an exciting race this weekend!”
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There’s a new member in our karting forums that seems to know his stuff about brakes. Karters often disregards brakes as an important performance factor and only attend to them when they feel completely wrong or stop working completely.
The thread already has a lot of info such as the correct way to bed-in your brake pads (which is critical for brake performance).
If you’ve ever had any questions about karting brakes head on to the braking thread and ask away.
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