Race Results

2016 Winter Cup

The first race of the 2016 Calendar, the Winter Cup.

Over the last couple of years the Winter Cup has been pushed under the carpet as an additional race. It Previously saw lower numbers due to teams not being ready or not wanting to put up with the colder, wet conditions which it is so famous for!

This year, given the complete re-brand to the series we thought we would change the format slightly and introduce a little spice to the proceedings. The race was made up of 2×2 hour races with a completely random grid! The grid for the second race was reversed, meaning if you were on pole for the first race, you started dead last for the second.

As teams turned up from 7am – it looked bright! the track was very green, but more importantly dry. Morning testing got underway with a very healthy attendance of 15 – which is a all time record for a RHPK Winter Cup. A number of teams expected in March came down to watch, CET, Custom Rods & Evolution.

We were also in the presence of some special guests, Chris McCarthy from the Karting Magazine who came down to watch and to get a feel for the series given that the Karting Magazine will be getting a team together for the RHPK Summer Series (Further Announcement to come) and Barry Lee down to see his Son, Freddie Lee driving for ITS 1.

The Winter Cup saw two very special guests, Barry Lee (UK Motorsport Legend) & Chris McCarthy (Karting Magazine)

A couple of teams had a slightly different drivers for this one off race, Shayne from Alverstone Autos driving for Amigos and Mark from Custom Rods driving for ITS Racing 1. A number of the karts looked very bare – keeping their brand new 2016 livery under wraps until March! (“Show us your 2016 Liveries” post to follow!)

A warm welcome to AZ Racing & Attaq Motorsport, both in their first race with RHPK and at RyeHouse I believe, both teams have confirmed their commitment for the rest of the season.

As the teams lined up on their random grid spots the track was wet and had been since the start of practice two.

2016 Winter Cup - Race #1

Pos	Class	Team	Laps	Fastest Lap
1	Super	Helicopter Services (6)	130	52.613
2	Super	ITS Racing 1 (9)	129	53.034
3	Clubman	Amigos (32)	126	54.685
4	Super	JRH Racing (4)	124	55.154
5	Clubman	Burton Power Racing (49)	122	56.038
6	Clubman	JAKL Racing (33)	122	55.814
7	Clubman	Neptune Motorsport (56)	121	55.949
8	Super	Lambo Racing (5)	117	56.659
9	Clubman	Silverline Racing (35)	117	55.388
10	Super	Team Eyrie (16)	117	55.811
11	Clubman	Pelam Racing (40)	117	57.115
12	Clubman	Artifex (45)	113	58.033
13	Clubman	ITS Racing 2 (46)	110	58.310
14	Clubman	ZJ Racing (48)	78	59.173
15	Clubman	Attaq Motorsport (50)	69	56.534

2016 Winter Cup - Race #2

Pos	Class	Team	Laps	Fastest Lap
1	Super	Helicopter Services (6)	117	51.416
2	Super	ITS Racing 1 (9)	115	51.425
3	Clubman	Amigos (32)	114	53.298
4	Clubman	JAKL Racing (33)	111	54.171
5	Super	Team Eyrie (16)	111	54.301
6	Clubman	Burton Power Racing (49)	111	54.198
7	Super	JRH Racing (4)	110	54.287
8	Clubman	Neptune Motorsport (56)	110	54.304
9	Super	Lambo Racing (5)	109	54.806
10	Clubman	Pelam Racing (40)	107	55.132
11	Clubman	Silverline Racing (35)	106	56.170
12	Clubman	ITS Racing 2 (46)	102	57.191
13	Clubman	Artifex (45)	102	55.685
14	Clubman	ZJ Racing (48)	78	58.400
15	Clubman	Attaq Motorsport (50)	9	57.493

Helicopter Services take the double win, closely hounded by ITS Racing 1 and Amigos a fantastic third place in both races. Newly promoted Team Eyrie with their new driver line up must be very proud to take home 5th in their second race!

A notable mention to JAKL Racing who put a very strong performance in both races.

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