Bank Holiday Monday marked the first ever RX250 race in the UK at Warden Law near Sunderland, when the opening round of the Sodi W Series 'Masters Cup' race took place.
There was a good turn-out in sunny weather conditions, where Karting Magazine was represented by my youngest son James, who took the speed of the faster RX250 kart in his stride.
From grid 5 in the second final, after being pushed off the track in the first final, he emerged in he lead after just the first corner, set the fastest lap of the race on lap 4, and pulled out a comfortable 5 second lead by the halfway mark. He then dropped into 'cruise mode' and throttled back, to win the race by just under 2 seconds. It was a remarkable effort from a driver in only his first season of racing, against some rather more experienced karting competition.
If future events are run with the same level of organisation, as that shown by Ben Hyland from the indoor karting centre PPiK in Leeds, then the future prospects for this new corporate karting venture looks very sound.
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