19/05/2026
Retro kart championship ‘Midland Champs’ write up 🏆:
Being honest, this really wasn’t the return to retro that we wanted and It was possibly one of the worst weekends racing wise to date!!
With having to run the engine in on the Saturday and only having 4 practice session to do so as I my first heat in the afternoon I didn’t have long to get the kart how I wanted it to be. And not to mention having to get used to it again as over the past few month I have been driving completely different machines!
Heat 1:
P6 - DNF
On the very first lap I was taken out of the race. Unfortunately I couldn’t get the kart started back up I had to sit the rest of it out and watch the others complete the heat.
Heat 2:
P14 - P14
The same story occurred again…
On the very first lap of the heat I was spun round by another driver and taken out of the race.
However due to great sportsmanship from one of the Simon Morgan, who had also came off following the accident, they gave me a push and off I went again trying to chase everyone back down.
Although I was still a lap down I managed to finish the heat whilst being incredibly disappointed with the result.
Heat 3:
P7 - P6
In this heat I actually managed to have a few good battles with the other drivers. After getting a good start I managed to move over to the right of the circuit to take the inside line of the corner - this worked perfectly for me as I managed to gain a position and begin to push on to get the front pack.
After battling long and hard through the heat I only managed to gain the one position, but I was still happy that I had actually managed to finish something!
The FINAL:
P14 - DNF
Another incredibly disappointing race to be honest.
After getting an incredible start I had made 6 places up by the first corner taking that inside line again. After holding my position for another lap I managed to then get a good run onto the main straight and out drag someone into the bottom corner.
After then holding that position for 3 more laps I started the 5th lap.
This is where it all went wrong, as I came round the first and second corner there was a yellow flag approaching the third corner.
A driver had come off the circuit and spun out, whilst I was approaching the third corner the driver in which had come off the circuit had then decided to try and rejoin whilst I was entering the corner!!
Unfortunately this lead to them driving directly into me and bending my steering column, however this didn’t come to my attention until the next corner when I hit the brakes and I had no control of the steering which meant I half spun.
After restarting myself, I then rejoined the circuit and completed another lap before then nearly spinning again. So for my safety and others out out track I decided to pull off the track.
An incredibly disappointing weekend for my first meeting back at Retro as we have come away with unnecessary damage that could have been avoided.
But it was lovely to see everyone again, we WILL come back stronger at Wigan 💪🏻
A huge thank you as always to my sponsors:
Creation 7T8 automotive 🚗🧽
Arc Business Interiors🛋️
John Anthony Chiropractic Clinic 🦴
And thank you to my dad for getting the kart ready to go back to retro after an incredibly busy off season. Although we have now had to reverse quite a bit of that work to fix it 😓😂.
