Hello.
I've been wanting to arrange this for years but just never got round to it. Having done a few open events on my own in the last couple of months though I've got the bug again so thought I'd give it a proper try.
For the rest of 2015 I'm hoping to arrange a couple of races where I either book the track exclusively, or just email round and get a big group to join an existing open race.
For 2016 I'm trying to organise a hire kart amateur championship. If your aiming to be the next Lewis Hamilton, this may not be for you. There is no prize at the end and no scouts there to notice you. Club100 do a great championship where they take their own 2 stroke karts around and you can turn up and race but its around £200 per event.
What this is though is a great, affordable way to feel part of a championship and race with some competitive amateur karters.
By using the tracks hire karts I'm hoping to keep each round to around £65. There will be a membership fee (yet to be determined) which will give me a float of money with which to pay deposits for tracks etc. Members will then benefit from slightly cheaper prices (i.e. members race £65, non members wishing to join a couple of events each season will be £75). Some venues may be more expensive than others but I'm currently in negotiations to get competitive prices from all.
Obviously the more interest I get and the more people that sign up the better the prices MAY get as a bigger group will increase my bargaining potential.
Rest assured, I'm not in this to make a profit and if for whatever reason once people have started paying membership fees, the season does not go ahead, all payments will be refunded promptly. Money will be kept in my paypal account until a track is booked and its very easy to just hit refund via paypal and the money goes straight back to your paypal account. People without a paypal account can pay direct on a card via paypal and again this can be refunded direct to your card if needed
Proposed Rules- The aim is to visit one track per month from Feb - Nov.
- Each race will be around 30 minutes with a few laps practice before.
- Each time the grid will be the reverse of the championship order to keep things interesting. First race may be a proper qualifying.
- There will be 2 weight categories in the same race so people that are not built like a racing snake can still be competitive in their own category.
- The winner of each category each race will be able to enter the next event with a 50% discount.
- Each driver can drop their worst 2 scores from the season (including if you did not attend that race.. i.e. if you are on holiday etc)
- 1st gets 25 points, 2nd 22 points, 3rd 20 points, 4th 19 points with decreasing points all the way down to 22nd gets 1 point.
- Fastest racing lap per event gets 1 bonus point.
- Most positions gained throughout the race gets 1 bonus point.
I will look into getting a little trophy made for the overall yearly winner of the championship.
As yet I don't have a name for this little venture.. suggestions welcome :)
Races will either be on a weekend day or as late as possible in the evening of a week day. All dates and times will be published at the start of the season to give everyone the maximum time to arrange their diaries.
Tracks I'm approaching and planning to race at. Some of these are already on board.
So at the moment I'm just collecting email addresses for those that would be interested. please mail me at
nathanwillits@icloud.com I probably won't reply but I will add your email to my list. All emails will be sent out as BCC undisclosed recipients so your details will be kept private and at any point if you wish to be removed from the list just let me know and I will delete your email address.
Once I have more tracks signed up and a better idea of the final price I'll email round and it will be first come first served for membership.
At the moment I'm hoping for 20-25 committed people to do the whole season and then any extra spaces at each race can be filled by one off drivers.
If this proves much more popular than 20 members then I can always book 2 races but I'll cross that bridge when I get to it.
Many thanks in advance. Hope this will be of interest to some of you.
Nathan
