Tomas Harper Racing

05/05/2026

03/05/2026

Onboards can be a bit boring but not when it's a beautiful day at Anglesey GP Circuit, and especially the view coming over the hill after the Rocket complex! Well worth a watch.

First day at the circuit, and good to be getting some consistency by the end even on very, very old looking tyres. Fastest lap of the session would have been good enough for top 8 when the Fiesta Championship last visited in June, but still more than a second off the Pole time. Work to be done.

Thank you to the team 20Ten Racing for arranging the test day. Next stop - Brands Hatch in 3 weeks time.

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29/04/2026

Some pics from Monday testing at Anglesey International Circuit.

As this was Tomas first time venturing on a test day without his Dad present I asked him to get lots of pictures of the day for his page. He presented me with a grand total of three:

1. The house on Red Weir Island – almost fully obscured by road barrier
2. Hundreds of wind turbines – out of focus
3. The A*5

Thanks Lewis for helping us out with pictures of the team Junior drivers and cars all together.

Other than forgetting to bring race boots, sleeping through his alarm in the hotel (and then leaving his coat at the hotel) it was a successful day of testing.

Plenty of seat time – most of which was on own without passenger/instruction – and lots of useful experience gained at a circuit where tyre wear is very high and it can be difficult to manage the tyres themselves. No serious mishaps or damage, and good speed being carried through the tricky corkscrew and other sections.

Thank you to:
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And The Bull Hotel in Holyhead for kindly posting the coat back to Derby...

26/04/2026

Tillotson T4 Junior – Fulbeck 26 April 2026

Not been in this kart since the Nations Cup Qualifier podium at PF last March! But couldn’t miss the opportunity to join up with our old friends for a T4 round within easy reach of us.

Unable to make the Saturday practise, and limited to how much time we could spend here on raceday (due to needing to meet up with 20Ten back in Derby at 5.30pm to head for Anglesey Circuit for Fiesta testing on Monday). So, a brief 5 min practise on Sunday to regain familiarity with 4-stroke and hoping that the final will start no later than 4.00pm.

We didn’t bother with new rubber so risked it with the very same tyres that the kart has sat parked on since last used at PF. They weren’t looking great after practise – lots of graining and looked like we would regret being tight-*rses.

Heat One – P8 up to P2 after a couple laps but tyres went off a cliff with a few mins to go. P3 finish.

Heat Two – P4 start and took lead on lap 9, but 2 laps to go fighting hard made contact in chicane. Vid attached, felt a bit hard done with a 5sec penalty when we left plenty of space. P2 OTR, P6 after penalty.

Heat Three – knowing it would probably be our last race of the day we opted to sacrifice the P2 start position at front of grid and go from very back of grid in P15 instead. Great race, excellent fun and came home P3.

Final – frustrating that the heat results meant we would have started the Final on the front row in P2, giving a great chance of a win. But Tomas was committed to being back in Derby on time and didn’t want to risk being late.

Overall, really happy to have been back in the T4 and show that the kart and engine are still working perfectly.

Credit to Karting Live TV for the vid

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Fulbeck Kart Club

21/04/2026

A few pictures and vids from Snetterton at the weekend where we were able to join up with the 20Ten Racing team and Fiesta Junior Championship teammates Rhys, Lewis, Dara and Max just for the official Friday practise sessions ahead of the weekend of their racing.

A really challenging, technical circuit and so another big step up for us. But an unmissable opportunity to gain experience and share the track with so many other Championship drivers, many of whom are in their second or third year of Junior racing and so a good benchmark to identify and try to keep pace with.

Thank you so much to our driver coach Ash Miller Motorsport for bringing us up to speed so quickly – an absolute pleasure to work with you!

A few stoppages in the first three sessions made it difficult to get in to any rhythm at a completely unfamiliar circuit. However, an uninterrupted fourth and final, full 20 min session gave us a chance to see what times we could set and we were very happy with the results.

Great results for the whole team with multiple top ten finishes throughout the weekend and Dara taking 3 wins out of 3!

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BRSCC Fiesta Junior Championship

17/04/2026

A pleasure to join the other 31 Fiesta Junior drivers at Snetterton in Friday practise today ahead of the opening Round 1 here this weekend (even though I was the only driver here not old enough to actually race just yet!). Looking forward to watching some exciting racing from the grandstands tomorrow, and will keep counting the days til I am 14!

02/04/2026

BRSCC Fiesta Junior Championship

Testing – Donington Park 20th March 2026

Very first test day on a race circuit and what a place to start – the full GP circuit at Donington.

Lots of time spent on the sim learning the lines in preparation, but it still doesn’t prepare fully for the real thing. Having been limited to testing at Blyton due to age restrictions until now, it is great to be out on such a fast and flowing circuit.

A day of learning how the car handles and experimenting with setup changes. Lots of time spent comparing data with the other drivers in the team, and by the end of the day good progress and some really promising laptimes.

A big mistake made in the second session of the day (vid below) – trying to take every inch of the track on entry to turn one (Redgate) Tomas braked with the left front wheel just touching the grass causing a spin. Fortunately, he dipped the clutch to keep the engine running and kept the steering straight while pointing backwards so the car entered the gravel backwards rather than sideways.

Next test in the car is Snetterton in 2 weeks time.

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24/03/2026

It's official - we are accepted and registered for the BRSCC Fiesta Junior Championship. Our first race will be extra special being our home circuit - Donington Park 18th/19th July!!

23/03/2026

The Kart Championship Round 1 – Warden Law 21-22 March

We had to miss official practise on Friday (we were the only Junior Rotax driver of 64 who missed it!) in order to take part in the Fiesta test day at Donington.

The 6-minute warm up on Saturday went well – sitting nicely in the top 5 after 3 laps until a minor ni**le with the rad meant having to back off. Promising start.

Qualifying. First flying lap the exhaust springs couldn’t cope with the flow and the exhaust jumped and wedged part way over the port. The very same springs we have used for 18 months and have done 100+ hours failed 2 mins into one of the most important qualifying sessions! If we had done the Friday practise this weakness would have been found and fixed.

Came in to pits, fixed in a second but we were not permitted to rejoin as per quali regulations. Weekend and probably championship chances blown – P31 of 32 in group. And we will be using 4 springs instead of the standard 2 in future!

Heat One – back of grid start. Finish P9. Utterly stunning 8 min session.

Heat Two – P16 by lap 4. Took P15 cleanly, then they got a bit mardy and span Tomas off by loading into the next turn. Back of pack P31 finish.

Super Heat One – P20 start, P10 finish

Super Heat Two – P20 start again, P10 finish again (missed out on fastest lap by 0.04!)

Final – P26 of 34 start. Making progress up to P18, next driver in P17 was easy to catch and pass without contact but the driver simply drove at us at next turn and turned us around, dropping 8 places back to P26. Finished P21.

A pity some less experienced drivers don’t see the long-game but inevitable to find these when having to come through such a big pack.

Video attached showing how it should be - the end of SH1 and taking the P10 place we badly needed to get into the A-Final. Good, clean racing with respectful and talented drivers.

Thanks team Ultimate-R for getting us straight up to speed on Saturday.

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21/03/2026

Unable to take part in the Friday practise here at Warden Law yesterday, so no time to fully test the kart before qualifying this morning. A mechanical problem with the exhaust during quali leaves us P31 of 32 for the first heat in an hours time!

Round 1. The Kart Championship, Warden Law. Let’s get into it.

New season, fresh grids and straight in at one of the UK’s most unforgiving circuits. No pressure.

InterMax
Jensen Skeff

Junior Rotax
Tomas Butcher
Tomas Harper
Braith Murdock

Senior Rotax
Kai Newman
Sam Kelbrick
James Kell
Elliot Dalton-Ayres

Fast corners, tight battles and just enough room for bold moves, or questionable decisions, depending how brave everyone’s feeling.

04/03/2026

Our first day of testing with 20Ten yesterday and also first day using the championship tyres instead of the Nankangs we had used for shakedown.

Together with three of the teams other junior drivers Dara, Max and Rhys and with the help of the teams instructor Jenson Brickley, we used the data and worked on trail braking. In the afternoon sessions the lap times were tumbling.

Arriving here our personal aim to get into the 1:13's, and we finished the day with a 1:13.39 best (onboard below), but more importantly good consistency with several laps in the mid 13's.

A bit of a hiccup with the race engine mid-morning with a popped core plug in the cylinder head valley - we wouldn't want that to happen mid-race! But easy to replace and continue.

Really happy with the car and handling. We will look forward to being out for more testing at Donington in just over two weeks time.

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