Campman Racing

15/08/2026

Bit late, but last weekend was the Sugar City Titles.
With a beautiful day for Saturdays racing and some great commentary from Kev “ the noise” Davies, and some awesome cartoons images.
There was over 80 nominations so qualifying for a few classes including the Junior KA100.

Qualifying - 10/12
Heat 1 - 10th to 9th
Heat 2 - 7th to 7th
Heat 3 - 7th to 7th
Final - 8th to 10th

Racing was great throughout all the day with some awesome battles and speed shown, especially by Dusty from CDP Motorsport to clean sweep the heats and Finals on his way to new track record! Congrats to Cooper from C-Tak Racing and Jax for getting on the podium and winning a cane-knife trophies.
Was also great to see Dallas back for the Finals after his unfortunate exit in heat 2.
Wasn’t quite the results that we were hoping for with a few engine issues that meant that we didn’t have the speed on the straight to keep pace. Even though it wasn’t all bad, We were able to tune the handling up and push out a new PB.
So hopefully if we can get our engines sorted and be a bit more competitive next time.

01/07/2026

This weekend we were racing at the Whitsunday kart track and after quick trip to the Gold Coast and back Friday night it was a short preparation, turning up Saturday morning and just go racing!

Practice showed reasonably pace but with all the drama we have had lately with the engine we decided to swap it out before races.

Heat 1:
Started 9th had a DNF after dropping a wheel and throwing the chain off.
Heat 2:
Started 1st finished 6th.
Heat 3:
Started 6th finished 6th.
Final:
Started 6th finishing in 6th.

Still struggling to get the kart to improve through the day, so wasn’t the best outing having good pace in practice but not able to improve on it during the day . Will keep trying different things and try to improve our outcomes.

09/06/2026

This weekend was back at Mackay and District kart club for round 5 and with a good field of 12 karts it was going to be some great racing with strong field of competitors.

Practice session was ok , not great, but nothing to hint at what was to come.🧐

Heat 1 : started in 8th Finished 8th.
Started ok but seemed to be slowing from half race. Came in and said the engine was not right in the top end.?😤
Heat 2: started in 6th Finished in 9th.
Again a ok start to make up a few places and then the rest of the race had nothing to fight with on the straights.
Heat 3: Started 9th Finished 9th.
Had a good start again making places, and again falling backwards as continued to lose pace on the straights.
Finals: Started 9th DNF.
With a strong start on the first lap was looking up until he came to a stop on second lap!😢

This was not the weekend we wanted, we hoped for a strong showing and progress after getting the engine rebuilt because of last round engine issues, to have gremlins come back to knock us out of any contention was disappointing to say the least. We tried hard to fix the issues and at least be competitive. We would like to thank Townsville Kart club for their advice and a huge shoutout to Blair and Cooper from C-Tak racing for offering us there spare engine to use and at least have a chance in the final, but even this was to no avail as we threw a chain and any chance of fighting , it just wasn’t meant to be! ☹️

Was super proud of Connor for not giving up and going out every race with a fighting attitude and even coming away at the end of the final happy with his pace before throwing the chain. Unfortunately this will affect our next race at Mareeba, while we rebuild and regroup and come back next round stronger. 👍

Big thanks to all of the competitors in our Karting community for their amazing support and advice, it’s all greatly appreciated. 🤗

27/05/2026

This weekend was the Great Barrier Reef titles at the Whitsunday Kart club.
Was looking forward to a good weekend with the weather holding out and a good last round here showing some nice improvements, or so we thought!
Rolled in Friday night with just enough time for a couple practice sessions , times were down half a second but nothing too crazy.🤨
Saturday morning practice.
7th out of 11 , slower than last night???🤔🤔
Qualifying.
10th this time, Connor came in as his warm up laps were his quickest. Said it’s not right. Stripped down carby and cleaned it, Rechecked tune. 🧐
Heat 1. - DNS!
Went out and struggled to even grid up, came back in, couldn’t get over 12 thousand! Pulled reed block and checked reeds and replaced spark plug !engine Ran on trolley ok.😫
Heat 2. - DNF!
Went out again and no good, got a start but came back in on lap 2. Couldn’t get over 9 thousand now,
Pulled coil off and replaced it, starting to run out of ideas! And with short turnarounds time!🤯
Heat 3.
Finally got a start even if it from p10. Was able to get up into 7th place. Finally a race finish.🙂
Heat 4.
Started 8th finished 7th. Start trying to chase setup.
Final.
Started 7th finish 7th.
Raced ok but were behind the ball with all the issues throughout the day.
Still a lot learnt off and on track even with the dramas of the day, big shout out to Brian from Townsville kart club for letting me chew his ear all day for advice and the parts, also to all other competitors and teams for any advice and support that everyone offered me and Connor throughout the day it was very much appreciated!
Grateful to be part of a such an awesome local karting community! 😎👍

14/05/2026

11/05/2026

This weekend was round 4 of the Mackay kart club sprint, and with no time for any practice throughout the week, we just had to roll in Saturday morning and go racing!

Sat one and only practice session went good with some reasonable times putting us around 5th quickest on track.

Heat 1: Started in 6th place for the random draw and with a quick start and a spin for a competitor out front in the first corner the chaos ensued but Connor popped out the other side in first! ( to my surprise 🤩and his) He then was able to keep it going and hold out for a super close finish with Chevy to win by a nose.

Heat 2: Started in 4th for the reverse draw. Bit of a slow start and dropped back a couple places but was able to battle back to 5th even though he was struggling with the kart . ( my fault as I had a issue with the pressure gauge and over pressured his tyres) 🤫

Heat 3: Started in 2nd , got a reasonable start but didn’t quite have the pace to stay with the front runners and came home in 5th again.

Final : Started in 5th and had a clean start and with everyone reasonably close in times had a clean race to finish in 5th overall.
Didn’t quite have the pace to stay in the hunt for a podium this weekend but will keep trying.

Shout out to Erin for dropping off some Elite Racing Team merchandise for Connor and I to wear. 😎👍

24/04/2026

Headed to Whitsunday Motorsport club last weekend for the 2026 NQ Series.
This is Connors first larger series race with larger ( 21 juniors nominated ) and more competitive fields and we were hoping to try and finish somewhere in the top ten as a goal for the weekend.

Arrived Friday afternoon to set up and got a great position on the starting grid. ( Thanks Zac & Kobe ) Got some practice sessions in and some good times,

Saturday practice showed reasonable pace and Connor was able to qualified in 9th.

Heat 1: Started in 9th - Finished in 10th.
Heat 2: Started in 9th - Finished in 8th.
Heat 3: Started in 9th - Finished in 9th.
Final : Started 9th - Finished in 9th.

Connor had consistent pace all weekend and improved his times all day , having some great racing with all the competitions around him. The quality of racing was outstanding all day with the field being so close, at one stage we had 14 juniors all within 1 second!
The final was impressive to watch with Connor starting 9th but getting his kart run over and knocked back to 14th, he put his head down and drove his backside off to to push through the field and manage to get back in to 9th place with enough pace to have finished higher but ran out of laps to get there.

Was a great weekend with Connor building some good confidence and a new PB for him at this track, can’t wait for the other two rounds.
Thanks to Luke and Brian Flynn ( Townsville Kart Club ) for helping straighten out the kart and help with my consistent bugging you as well as Blair ( C-TAk Racing ) for your advice on setup, was greatly appreciated !

14/04/2026

Does anyone in our karting community happen to have a spare set of wet rims to fit a junior kart that we could borrow, hire or buy for this weekends race in case the weather stays wet?
Thanks in advance