The Johnny Herbert Karting Challenge

I am sorry to have to announce that The Johnny Herbert Karting Challenge due to take place at The Raceway Docklands Circuit on Sunday 27^th November this year has had to be cancelled.

It was not a decision that was taken lightly and only after much discussion with my fellow organisers.

This would have been the 18^th year of Johnny’s event 17 of those at The Raceway and much has changed over those many years.

The wish is to continue with this unique event, it’s sole aim to raise funds for worthy causes and we will be discussing how we can do that.

Roy Craig

While British Motor Racing fans hoped for home success at the British Grand Prix at Silverstone, one young UK driver achieved success abroad. Barkingside’s Scott Malvern took a brilliant and hard fought victory at the legendary Spa circuit in Belgium. But Scott suffered a nightmare start to the weekend on Friday when he suffered gearbox failure as he exited the pits for qualifying. He struggled round to complete three qualifying laps at speed which were only good enough to give him 14^th, 16^th & 21^st (last) grid positions for the weekend’s three races. [Read the rest of this entry...]

Scott Malvern secured his third excessive clean sweep and made it nine consecutive race victories with an impressive display on the Brands Hatch Grand Prix circuit this weekend. But twice he was faced with having to restart a race when red flags were deployed in both races one & three due to a heavy downpour and cars losing control and spinning off the track.

As the 26 car grid set off on the green flag lap it began to rain. With all the cars shod with slick tyres for dry running conditions were very trick but Scott pulled clear of the field to pull out a substantial advantage until the cars of 2nd placed Geoff Uhrhane and championship leader Jeroen Slaghekke spun off into the gravel at Clearways corner. The race was red flagged and all the drivers pitted to change for wet treaded tyres. At the restart Malvern pulled clear of Finnish Champion Antti Buri to win by over 4 seconds.

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Firstly I apologise to all those of you who have been waiting for this report of the 2010 Karting Challenge, yes it is March and I have no excuse except that I have just not been able to get on to it, my full time job has been so manic but not for much longer because after 50 years of working much too hard I will be retiring in May…whoopee!

I hope that this will also make the months leading up to Johnny’s event a lot less stressful too!

The Karting Challenge for 2010 fell on a different date than we had been used to for quite a few years, I usually reckon on holding it a week after the Macau Grand Prix and so would have been November 28th….. however Johnny had been competing in the Superstars Series and the last event of the year was scheduled for that day, the first time since 1994 that his racing has clashed with his karting day !! ……….. Johnny made it a worthwhile change by promptly winning the first of the 2 races held in Kyalami, South Africa that day, this placed him 7th in the championship.
So it was to be a week later, Sunday 5th December at our usual venue of The Raceway Docklands, Michael Segal, the owner of this fantastic circuit and Jolyon Brand…… race director had everything prepared and waiting for us. [Read the rest of this entry...]

Thanks to the Team Captain of Race Drivers Inc for this in kart footage. It gives you a little idea of what it’s like to drive in a 3 hour endurance race.

Other stints are available at Middle Stint, part 1 and Middle Stint, part 2

A young double amputee British soldier, Ash Hall, only 5 months after being injured by an IED in July 2010, shows ex Formula 1 racing driver Johnny Herbert how the KartForce hand controls work.

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