🏁🏁🏁🏁 And Harry takes the chequered flag in P3 for Round 2 & P5 for round 3 at Clay pigeon racetrack for the 2025 / 2026 Natska Championship. 🏁🏁🏁🏁
A great weekend of racing at clay pigeon. The weather was horrendous when we turned up on Friday evening with the wind howling at gale force, the rain going sideways and not being able to see the other side of the track due to fog. Other than that, it was lovely. Unfortunately, a few awnings didn’t make it. Saturday’s race day was much the same without the fog. With interchangeable conditions throughout the day and many tyre changes made it even more challenging. We were very excited to be trying out the Kart republic chassis for the first time under race conditions, and we were not let down by it. Harry said the handling of the chassis was unreal with maximum grip, this was without knowing all the correct set up settings for the conditions.
Saturday 4th Oct Round 2 Finished P3 for the day.
A grid of 32 drivers
Heat 1 – Starting in P3 for heat 1 made him a bit nervous not knowing what to expect with the chassis under race conditions but got off to a flying start missing out on fastest lap by 1 tenth for the heat with 4 karts pulling away from the rest gaining a position to finish in P2 with less than a second separating the top 4 with 12 drivers retiring from the race
Heat 2 – Starting 18th on the grid saw some great overtakes to gain 13 places to finish the heat in P5
Heat 3 – Starting 24th on the grid another great heat gaining another 13 places to finish the heat in 11th place.
Heat 4 – Starting 9th on the grid making up 7 places to finish a comfortable 2nd place.
Sunday 5th Oct Round 3 Finished P5 for the day. A grid of 32 Drivers. Today’s racing stated off the same as yesterday weather wise but without the rain showers threatening.
Heat 1 – Starting 17th on the grid made up 13 places to finish the heat in P4.
Heat 2 – Starting 21st on the grid made up13 places again with some great overtakes to finish the heat in P8.
Heat 3 – Starting 9th made up 3 places to finish the heat in P6.
Heat 4 – Starting the heat in p5 this was a good chance to finish the day on the podium again but wasn’t to be. After the grid being warned at the start of the heat about driving standards that had occurred throughout the day it seemed that no notice was took by some. I think this was up there as one of the worst heats I have seen in rotax with the amount of hitting each other and dangerous driving I’m very surprised no one got seriously hurt during it. From the first corner it looked a mess from start to finish with the leader getting hit and taking a spin up to the chicane on turn 2, this caused a few to have to take action with harry going onto the grass to avoid a crash making him drop down to 17th place losing a lot of ground. This made a tall order of getting back into the race. Managing to pull back 8 places he finished the heat in 9th place securing a P5 finish for the day.
All in all a great weekend of racing with so many positives on a different chassis but a lot of crazy driving which should not be happening due to motorsport uk being so hot on driving standards now.
NATSKA ROUNDS 4 & 5 GYG North Wales 7th & 8th March 2026 Trackside footage
And Harry takes the chequered flag with 2 top 10 finishes. In 5th place for Round 4 and 9th Place for round 5 ROUNDS 4 & 5 GYG Kart track Glan Y Gors in north Wales.
Superb track that we have liked since the first time we went there in Honda. Half the track technical and the other half fast and flowing.
ROUND 4
Saturday 7th March. The day started off at -2 but with the sun did end up shining for most of the day and was bearable just enough to stop you freezing over. All weekend we had a problem with our front bumper that kept coming undone due to some worn blocks not holding it on tight enough which did end up costing us a lot of places over the weekend with drop down bumpers. A lot of dodgy driving standards and brake checking didn’t help peoples causes either.
HEAT 1 – Starting 15th on the grid saw a lot of people try and win the heat on turn 1 hence a lot of bumping and pushing which is where we had our first drop down. Taking a hit from behind pushing us into someone else and causing the drop. Nevertheless, head down and plodded on making it up to 10th place working his way through a long train of karts only to be hit with the +5 second penalty for the drop down taking him back up to finish in 16th losing 1 place.
HEAT 2 – Starting in 5th place on the grid got off to a great start saw the front group battle it out and harry make up 3 place to finish in second place.
HEAT 3 – Starting near the front again in 6th place and another fast start, saw him gain 5 places to finish the heat in first place.
HEAT 4 – Strating 16th on the grid. The same as heat one saw him make up 8 places only to receive another +5 seconds for a drop down which dropped him back down to 17th place, losing 1 place again. This meant we finished the day in 5th place which was a great result considering our front bumper problems which were to continue for all the heats on the Sunday.
ROUND 5
Sunday 8th March. Sunday’s weather was completely different from the Saturday with it starting off very misty but a slight bit warmer. Heat 1 the track managed to stay dry but the other 3 heats saw the heavens open throughout the day causing a lot of tricky conditions.
HEAT 1 – Starting in 21st on the grid this was the most unclean of the heats with a lot of drop downs throughout the grid caused by a lot of brake checking going on. A great start for harry with him manging to move 13 places up the pack and finish in 8th place only to have to go back down to 12th place with his +5 drop down penalty.
HEAT 2 – Starting in18th on the grid and with more contact going on he did mange to get up to 8th place again only to have to drop back down to 12th again with another +5 penalty.
HEAT 3 – Starting in 4th place on the grid saw the wacky racers head off again. This time harry did win the heat but got a drop down bumper after crossing the finish line due to the finish line flag being waved to early and a back marker hitting his brakes causing harry to go into him meaning another +5-penalty dropping him down into second place.
HEAT 4 – Starting in 7th place another great round was spoilt by another brake check and another drop down with harry having rapid pace all day in the wet he managed to get up to 2nd place only to see the result change to 5th place with the +5 penalty. Negatives of the weekend were way too many shall we say incidents and crazy driving. Harry has only had 2 drop down penalties in the last 2 years of racing and just seemed strange to have 6 in just this weekend, we shall see. Positives for the weekend were buckets of pace and a wet set up found at last for the KR. Fastest for the day on Sunday and made it through the weekend with minimal damage which is always a good one. Onwards and upwards to Fulbeck in 2 weeks’ time.
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NATSKA Round 6 Fulbeck kart track 28th March 2026
And Harry takes the chequered flag in P3 for round 6. A great day’s racing at Fulbeck this weekend. We’ve not had much luck at this track over the years, but what may turn out to be the last time we end up racing at this particular track, it was a great last race. With a 4am start to get on the road it looked to be a lovely sunny day but that soon changed by the time we had got to Grantham. Nice and sunny but freezing cold and gale force winds. Also lucky to escape the heavy hail showers going on around us.
Heat 1 – Starting 10th on the grid pace was good on the cold track but caught up in traffic throughout the heat could only make up 2 places to finish the heat in 8th place.
Heat 2 – Starting in 20th place on the grid got a great start to make it up to 11th place in the first 2 laps only for a crash to bring out the red flags, meaning when it restarted the pack was re grided taking him back up to 20th place on the grid again due to not enough of the race had been run so a bit of bad luck there. On the restart had another great start and by the end of the race had managed to work his way through making up 14 places to finish in 6th place.
Heat 3 – Starting in 12th place this heat had some great battles throughout to clinch 5th place finishing in the end ahead of archie by 0.007 seconds showing some great clean overtakes.
Heat 4 – Starting on our first ever pole in Rotax with NATSKA tore off the start line to pull a 2 second lap on the 1st lap only for a crash(all drivers ok) to bring out the battenburg flags half way through the race, and harry as race leader had to slow down and back the pack up ready for the green flag restart which made for a tense final 4 minutes. On the restart he lost the lead up to the first chicane but kept his cool to stay close so the pair of them could pull away from the rest of the pack. On the second from last lap coming up a to turn 1 harry made his move cutting in on the inside to take and reclaim the lead which he held to the finish line winning the heat on maybe our last visit to the track. Great pace and control throughout the day claiming fastest lap time for the whole day and a P3 finish to take him back up to 3rd in the championship table.
Onwards and upwards to the double header weekend of Rounds 7 & 8 in 3 weeks’ time at ROWRAH in Cumbria.
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