Race Results

Round 3 – 7th May 2016

Making History.

The Ryehouse Prokarting series was born back in 1997. Since then it’s seen many forms of organisation, duration, entrants & changes. 2016 was the year that the season took on a strong brand based – RHPK.

This month was a very special month, both Burton Power and ITS Tools came together to sponsor the series and book a televised round which would be later broadcast on Motors TV.

The run up till race day was very active, both on the phones at the track & social media. The Tuesday following on from Round 2 (April) saw a flurry of teams booking in. By 11am on Tuesday, Round 3 was fully booked even with two spaces on the grid added! We had a waiting list of 4 teams.

Due to popular demand the track put on exclusive RHPK practice on the Friday where a number of teams prepared & set the kart up for Saturdays race.

May saw a couple of team changes, Piers Prior who previously raced for Team Karting Magazine joined ABA Racing this month.

Piers Prior joined ABA Racing for May

Team Karting Magazine upped the stakes with both Bradley Philpot & Lee Henderson.

Team Karting Magazine, May line up of - Harry Webb, Bradley Philpot & Lee Henderson

Unfortunately, JAKL Racing cracked their chassis in qualifying just after securing 23rd spot on the grid. Meaning they were unable to take part any further. Team BMH, one of the reserves was given the green light to take JAKL’s place but would start from the back.

At 3pm all of the karts were sent to the track where Chris Mccarthy interviewed various teams in a Martin Brundle like grid walk! 36 Karts were present for the start of the race.

A Season first, Hot Rod legend, Barry Lee joined the RHPK team to commentate throughout the race. Barry was the voice over the duration of the race and interviewing drivers as they finished their stint.

Not only was it a pleasure to have Barry with us, but to be commentating for 4 hours straight on every race, incident and almost all of the action added another dimension to the day.

Burton Power Being Interviewed on the Grid

Race

The start of the Race was kicked off by our sponsors. Kevin, ITS Tools headed the packed with the Ariel Atom and at the rear, Andy from Burton Power with his 400bhp+ Focus RS called Kermit!

As the green flag is dropped, 36 karts ABA Racing leads the pack going into the first corner with Helicopter Services nose on the inside. Baron Racing racing just behind and Team Alpha on the outside. NMA Racing lead the Clubman class, with Amigos and ITS 2 behind on the first corner. On the left hand flick there is a incident, a kart gets squeezed and it’s front wheels are airborne slightly!

Coming into the first hairpin another incident, Team Wraith’s chain is off and is forced to pit. Coming down the straight for the second time ABA is covering off Helicopter Services however Helicopter Services finds a gap and is into the lead closely followed by Baron & Team Alpha.

Throughout the duration of the race, many teams had a number of highs and lows of endurance racing – some great battles all the way down the pack which will make great racing once edited for Motors TV. In the last 30 minutes of the race we saw Helicopter Services catching Team Alpha for the lead, 5 seconds down the track saw a similar battle, a chasing ABA Racing to take 3rd. Both heated teams Helicopter Services and Team Alpha had a coming together on the first hairpin which was seen to be deemed advantage by contact by Helicopter Services – the team slowed down to let Alpha through where they came together once again – both teams retired, a real disappointing finish considering we had 20 minutes of the race to go.

As the Chequered flag drops, ABA Racing take the flag – however they are underweight by 0.5KG – netting them a 10 lap penalty – this means the win goes to Custom Rods who were previously sitting in 5th place half an hour prior to the race finishing! Red Racing in their debut race with RHPK finish a fantastic 2nd place and Focus Racing round up the top three in a incredible third despite qualifying 15th!

In Clubman Amigos take the win by just seconds to newcomers DWS Racing in 2nd. Burton Power Racing take a well earned 3rd place. This weekend we saw Burton Power step up and find pace, they qualified 1st in class.

A notable mention goes to new to RHPK, Team PGS who started at the back of the grid due to coming in underweight in qualifying, after 4 hours they worked their way through the pack. But despite their efforts they weighed in just underweight again.

Team Karting Magazine finish a well deserved 5th place – despite coming into to do a driver change when the team were not ready, meaning they had to come in again shortly after! Their best result yet! Well done guys.

Series Sponsors

JH’s Top 10

1. Weather – “Scorchio”
2. Ben Cook – Quite simply the best third stint I have EVER seen (and I’ve been here a while!). Blistering pace, race craft beyond his years, such a pity…..Ben later mused that he had had the “best day of his life” (appart from the last bit….), he really is one to watch.
3. Aerial Atom – MENTAL
4.Kermit – MENTAL
5. Barry Lee – TOTALLY MENTAL! Barry’s race commentary was a huge bonus. Not only did it hugely enhance the event for those spectating, we are really looking forward to seeing how it transfers over onto the TV!.
6. PGS racing – Ok, so these guys had a bit of a sketchy start to the event however they really got into the spirit of RHPK and for four hours slogged it out and almost made it to the top of the pile. Whilst rules are rules, docking their points post race for being “under” was not a pleasant thing to have to do. Lets hope we see them again, a real pleasure to have!
7. Polska Kiełbasa – nuff said………………………
8. ITS and Burton Power. Collaborators in paying for the TV but did soooo much more behind the scenes. ‪#‎RHPKSBITS‬&BP!!!!
9. Spectators – where on earth did they all come from? So welcome So appreciated So come again!
10. Livery – the effort made by ALL of the teams! Ok, so the pit lane did look like there had been an explosion in the Dulux factory and one or to of the driver appeared to have had the hair cut by Vidal Sassoon BUT it was clear that this race meant a huge amount to all of you and you all made a real effort.

WELL DONE EVERY ONE See you in JUNE!

11. PS – I thought the “boys in orange” really did themselves proud. They knew it was big, they knew it was important, they raised their game, it was noted and appreciated.

Round 3 - May 2016 Qualifying

Position	Kart	Kart	Laps	Laptime	On	MPH
1	10	ABA Racing (SP)	30	41.617	10	51.065
2	1	Team Alpha (SP)	29	41.672	29	50.998
3	6	Helicopter Services (SP)	34	41.699	25	50.965
4	2	Custom Rods (SP)	33	41.78	10	50.866
5	15	Baron Racing (SP)	31	41.849	26	50.782
6	13	Red Racing (SP)	40	42.01	32	50.588
7	17	Karting Magazine (SP)	25	42.077	21	50.507
8	5	Lambo Racing (SP)	24	42.123	23	50.452
9	18	Team Wraith (SP)	41	42.198	41	50.362
10	9	ITS Racing 1 (SP)	34	42.244	34	50.307
11	49	Burton Power Racing (C)	19	42.291	9	50.252
12	16	Team Eyrie (SP)	38	42.332	26	50.203
13	37	NMA Racing (C)	16	42.369	16	50.159
14	12	Team JAM (SP)	38	42.42	37	50.099
15	7	Focus Racing (SP)	17	42.492	5	50.014
16	32	Amigos (C)	37	42.516	36	49.986
17	46	ITS Racing 2 (C)	38	42.571	19	49.921
18	4	JRH Racing (SP)	35	42.588	16	49.901
19	43	Avatar Racing (C)	19	42.625	18	49.858
20	58	DWS Racing (C)	29	42.742	7	49.721
21	31	KA Racing (C)	34	42.792	24	49.663
22	51	Polish Lambo (C)	26	42.811	13	49.641
23	33	JAKL Racing (C)	17	42.915	17	49.521
24	35	Silverline Racing (C)	40	42.928	39	49.506
25	34	Team CET (C)	36	42.946	31	49.485
26	50	Attaq Motorsport (C)	34	42.961	14	49.468
27	40	Pelam Racing (C)	18	43.01	17	49.411
28	52	Richspeed Racing (C)	19	43.016	19	49.405
29	47	HRS Racing (C)	8	43.057	5	49.358
30	38	Neptune Motorsport (C)	35	43.082	33	49.329
31	30	LR Racing (C)	34	43.292	19	49.09
32	45	Artifex Racing (C)	9	43.413	6	48.953
33	53	HRS Racing 2 (C)	15	43.734	8	48.593
34	48	ZJ Racing (C)	32	43.954	22	48.35
35	39	Evolution (C)	5	44.52	5	47.736
DNS	20	PGS Racing (SP)	0	0	0	0
DNS	36	BMH (C)	0	0	0	0

Round 3 - May 2016 Race

Position	Kart	Team	Class	Laps	Behind	Best
1	2	Custom Rods	Super	337	18.599	41.97
2	13	Red Racing	Super	334	3 Laps	42.208
3	7	Focus Racing	Super	333	4 Laps	42.272
4	12	Team JAM	Super	332	5 Laps	42.282
5	17	Karting Magazine	Super	332	5 Laps	42.076
6	4	JRH Racing	Super	332	5 Laps	42.552
7	32	Amigos	Clubman	331	6 Laps	42.404
8	58	DWS Racing	Clubman	331	6 Laps	42.492
9	49	Burton Power Racing	Clubman	330	7 Laps	42.342
10	9	ITS Racing 1	Super	329	8 Laps	42.219
11	10	ABA Racing	Super	327		41.737
12	43	Avatar Racing	Clubman	327	10 Laps	42.592
13	31	KA Racing	Clubman	326	11 Laps	42.65
14	16	Team Eyrie	Super	326	11 Laps	42.299
15	20	PGS Racing	Super	325	2 Laps	42.311
16	34	Team CET	Clubman	325	12 Laps	43.151
17	30	LR Racing	Clubman	324	13 Laps	43.119
18	35	Silverline Racing	Clubman	324	13 Laps	42.839
19	52	Richspeed Racing	Clubman	323	14 Laps	42.864
20	15	Baron Racing	Super	322	15 Laps	41.854
21	1	Team Alpha	Super	319	18 Laps	41.82
22	40	Pelam Racing	Clubman	319	18 Laps	43.025
23	37	NMA Racing	Clubman	318	19 Laps	42.432
24	36	BMH	Clubman	317	20 Laps	43.61
25	6	Helicopter Services	Super	310	27 Laps	41.824
26	51	Polish Lambo	Clubman	309	28 Laps	42.86
27	53	HRS Racing 2	Clubman	308	29 Laps	43.517
28	38	Neptune Motorsport	Clubman	307	30 Laps	42.953
29	39	Evolution	Clubman	285	52 Laps	44.288
30	46	ITS Racing 2	Clubman	279	58 Laps	42.588
31	50	Attaq Motorsport	Clubman	265	72 Laps	43.127
32	45	Artifex Racing	Clubman	258	79 Laps	42.907
33	5	Lambo Racing	Super	252	85 Laps	42.366
34	18	Team Wraith	Super	246	91 Laps	42.559
35	48	ZJ Racing	Clubman	203	134 Laps	43.23
36	47	HRS Racing	Clubman	188	149 Laps	43.14
DNS	33	JAKL Racing	Clubman	0	-	0