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PCV Go Kart Evening

Story & Photos by Adam de Guara 20th July 2022

On the evening of the 20th July 2022, the PCV were thrilled to host the annual Go Kart Challenge for PCV members.

To add a little fun and to introduce the younger members to the ‘racing calendar’, additional categories of ‘Junior Champions’ (6-11 years) and an ‘Apprentice Class’ (1217 years), as well as the usual Open Age category, which is always hotly contested.

The Junior Champions commenced at 5pm for 30 minutes of ‘uncompetitive’ racing, honing driving skills and refining skills to achieve the ‘fastest lap’. There were many laughs and excited faces amongst the junior racers and some very close ‘best lap’ times achieved.

Congratulations to ‘Trashy not Artsy – Kart 74’!

A close second was Alistair and third fastest was Kosta.

All racers were winners on the night and received a medallion for participation.

The ‘Apprentice Class’ was next up, with a structured race event including warm up laps, qualifying and a final race to determine the grooming of the future generation of racers.

Congratulations to Stefan for finishing in First place, closely followed by Jonathan and Ray in third place.

Champions:

Junior Champions The Open Age PCV CHAMPIONSHIP category, as always was a hotly contested event which commenced with warm up laps, two qualifying heats and a final race to determine the overall winner.

Although we believe those racing with driving gloves and racing attire should have been penalised penalty seconds as they had an advantage over those who braved the frostbite and raced without gloves, it was agreed, in the light of good sportsmanship, no such penalties were to be imposed and our eventual 2022 Go Kart champion, Daniel Laskowski was crowned.

Congratulations to Tyler Rodenberg (aka Lightning McQueen) for achieving a fabulous second place and a very honourable mention to Aaron Tebbutt for finishing in third place.

Well done to all racers for racing in a very fair and honourable way…….whilst trying to obtain bragging rights along the way.

The operators at ACE Karts congratulated the attendees, the competitiveness and ultimately the great sportsmanship demonstrated across all classes.

Many thanks to all who were in attendance and we look forward to an even more exciting challenge in 2023!

Apprentice Class PCV Champions