Aymane For The Stars

Race Report for 22nd November 2008 A Hire Kart Individual Driver Event

I was dreaming of Moroccan Harost Balls, with dates raisons and nuts as Aymane Yacine sailed to victory in race three, the first of the day to use older ingredients. I’m not suggesting that Aymane is nuts by the way, or even that he’s got Harost Balls, it was just that I had time to dream of Moroccan treats as he took the flag ten seconds clear of second. He really is a rising star and I wish him well as he looks towards his owner/driver racing career. Jack Wilson started and finished his run from second and at the line he crossed a serviette clear of Luke Watkins and James Walkington who flashed by as one. Sam Todman missed getting a mention in this paragraph by three hundredths of a second. Shame really.

Our man with the neck collars had to readjust his arms a few centimetres higher for race six as this was the second outing of the 11-16 brigade. Again Aymane Yacine excelled as he shot from the obscurity of eighth to the glare of publicity that is another race win. Sam Todman raced valiantly to cling on to his P2 start which he achieved with a second to spare over James Cossins who had worked his way up from dishwasher to head cook along the way. Luke Gherkins took fourth and was washed down with a glass of James Walker-(ington).

James Walkington started from pole in race nine and I’m betting he wished it had been a four lapper because in the fifth lap Aymane Yacine caught him and slipped by for his third win of the day. James crossed just a small hors d'oeuvre behind. Ben Linsdell makes his debut in third place after gaining a couple of pounds during this gastronomic delight. That just leaves James Cossins and Sam Todman in need of a bit of garnishing and we have the top five in all their glory.

Time now for the 11-16 main course which as expected featured Aymane Yacine as the prominent ingredient. He won but didn’t have it all his own way as Sam Todman kept up the pressure all the way. James Walkington fell one place under this pressure and crossed for a well earned bronze and not a second too soon as James Cossins was right behind. Luke Watkins completed this top five and was chased home by Jack Wilson, Ben Linsdell, Harry Sisley and Reiss Summer Berry pudding and custard.

As Aymane had been the star of the older group so had Taylor Maloney shone in the 8-13’s.

Report author: Alan Wood

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Championship: 2008 Buckmore Junior Club 11-16 Summer

Aymane finishes 5th, top Rookie by far
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Buckmore Junior Club 11-16 Summer Round 7 (Summer Series)

Aymane Yacine has rapidly made his mark in the club this year. I have spoken to him about it and he is going to clean it up later. In race four he shot up from the estuary of P9 to the salmon leap of P1 which he took despite the presence of the pocket rocket that is Jesse Chamberlain in close attendance. James Hughes had already earned a gold in the 8-13 race and was fired up for even greater success this afternoon. He picked up a brace of places to finish third and half a second clear of Matt Tiffin a driver destined to make his mark in the adult events which he starts next month. Keiran Tison needed every point he could muster if he was to retain his series lead but here finished three adrift from his main rival Jesse.
Earlier I’d been surprised to see Stuart in the D and now I was equally astonished to see Aymane Yacine floundering in the B. It’s better than floundering in the sea I’ll grant you, but still not where I expect to see this rapidly rising star. I think he was just trying to blag a free go though as he rapidly made it clear that he was off to play in the A when he won the B by over six seconds. The fight for second was thrilling as John Gabriel Iuga just scraped second by a few tenths from Jay Rudd. Murray Knott rose from the depths to secure fourth, one place clear of Matt Tiffin. Conor Jux-Chandler led the rest from sixth. Harry Tavare was chased by Ivan May-Jones, Ronnie Stracey, Sam Logan, Sam Lawrence, Ryan Cummings and Isobel Storrar.
The A final was the clincher for the championship for Jesse and current leader Kieran Tison. Jesse came of P2 while his nemesis was way back down in eleventh. Jamie Cummings took the lead as Jesse had a little spinette (It’s a new wash/dryer appliance) and fell back. Carl Williams didn’t look this gift horse in the mouth, he didn’t have time, he was busy racing and moved up. Sam Brabham completed the best days racing I’ve seen from this promising young driver and bagged third for his very own. Toby Cook moved up from tenth on the grid to an eventual fourth while Jesse completed the top five. That is of course only half the story as you need to know how Kieran fared. In truth he suffered the indignity of making a rare mistake at café that left him marooned on the kerb, right in front of Uncle Joe. I mean, how embarrassing is that? Joe amazingly resisted the urge to hop over the fence and release him but I did see he legs wiggle pre leap before he thought better of it. Kieran was untangled and finished tenth and I think he knew that the challenge was over. Of the others the result looked like this; Aymane Yacine finished sixth, Nathan Baily led Tom Storrar and Alice Goad from seventh. Seth James crossed for 11th with Stephen Harrison and James Hughes completing the order. The latter had got tripped up on lap one.
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Rookie Race Report at Buckmore Park for 4th October 2008

Time now to wheel out those campaigners with a few more centimetres, not to mention milligrams — Shhh, I said not to mention them. Race three provided the opportunity for James Cossins to show what he is made of. It was a bit disappointing in all honesty; it turned out to be mainly water with a smattering of minerals and stuff. Still, whatever mixture it was it worked in terms of propelling him from the midfield to the status of winner in as few as three minutes. It was one of those thrilling finishes where the top three all crossed in the bling of a chav. Jordan Annells was next home after shepherding kart 13 into the corral. (That’s three times in the top three, it’s been at those E numbers again methinks, maybe time for an early night. The kart that is, not Jordan). While kart 13 had been imbibing the E numbers I think the kart under the bottom of Aymane Yacine had been at the Horlicks. True it propelled him to third but he’d started second and we all know he’s not backward in coming forward is he. James Walkington started and finished in fourth while Jay Rudd completed the roost from fifth. Question. How can a Jay be a rook. Maybe by painting the white bits black and going for beak enhancement surgery.

Six followed five as inexorably as detention follows lying about why you haven’t brought your homework in. James Cossins had certainly done his homework about how to convert a pole into a cool twelve points and he handed his results in nearly a twentieth of a minute before Aymane Yacine got there. To be fair Aymane also had to do a bit that overtaking malarkey as he’d started eighth. Another plug is due for Jordan Annells now as he again featured in los tres superiors. If you don’t speak Spanish I can translate that for you as superiori dei tres di los. I hope that helped. This review of the top five cannot reach its logical conclusion until I have included Jay Rudd and James Walkington. There was a guy in this race called No Name 1 but in all honesty he was rubbish.

In the remaining old dude heat we watched James Walkington not so much walk but fly into the lead despite an ever present threat to his position from Aymane Yacine who had to console himself with second. Jay Rudd did his overtaking trick four times so that I could say with 100% honesty that he finished third. James Cossins concluded his heat business with a P10 to fourth conversion which left Joseph Jones no option other than to self combust or finish fifth. He chose the latter. No Name 1 was again pants but at least scored a point for not bothering to even enter let alone turn up.

We gave all the young dudes a short break so they could carry the news while their older buddies settled the outstanding issue of the rightful claim to the crown. This was settled in favour of Aymane Yacine after a terrific eight lap battle in which the top four places were traded freely on the open market. By the flag Aymane was 0.78 clear of James Walkington who would earn silver while James Cossins ended a great day with a well deserved bronze. The roll call of J’s continues unabated as we cheered Jay Rudd, Joseph Jones and Jordan Annells home for fourth through sixth. Not wishing to be left out Jrad Saunders, Juke Millington and Jndre Nicodemou completed the leader board.

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Taylor Maloney and Aymane Yacine. The bright stars in the club firmament

My theory about James’ rising has been both proven and refined over the last two paragraphs and it now turns out that it holds good for anyone whose name starts with a J. Just look at my evidence. James Walkington rose from fourth to first, James Smyth (pronounced Smiff not smyve) climbed five places for a close second as Jay Rudd held third a couple of tenths behind. James Cossins nipped up from the back to help prove my point (Cheers J) when he took fourth. Aymane Yacine didn’t quite understand the rules of the game but as his mother tongue is Arabic I think we can assume that in his languageA is the same as J. He was fifth by the way.

Assuming I’m right, and I usually am, and we take Aymane to be Arabic for James then I guess Thomas, Brad, Scott and Andre went into race 2 (for the big dudes) knowing they hadn’t got a chance short of a name change by deed pole and that’s not easy on a Saturday. Aymane drove his usual big smiley blinder to grab maximum points by three seconds over James Cossins. A little way back came the rest of the J’s led by third placed Jay Rudd with Joseph Jones, Jordan Annells, James Walkington and James Smyth all close behind.

Aymane was masterful in the wet

That left just one more heat, the one for the teenage ninja karters, most of whom haven’t mutated. Isn’t ‘whom’ a nice word, it’s all old fashioned like ‘the wireless’ when used to describe a DAB radio. Having received but one mention so far Jordan Annells felt he’d better put on a bit of a show and buoyed up by the first letter of his given name he sailed off into the rainset to tke the win by a convincing six seconds. JAymine Yacine can speak fluent French as well as Arabic so he knows that J’ai means ‘I have’ (second in the bag). It also starts with J. From P2 on the grid Thomas Goodwin held on for a very close third despite the determined efforts of fourth placed Scott Taylor to demote him. James Walkington secured the remaining top five slot by applying for his loan before the crunch.

I love the A finals, what a great spectacle it is. The greatest monocle of all was race winner Aymane Yacine who came off pole like greased lightning. I wonder how anyone ever managed to do that, grease lightning that is. First, you’d need a huge pot of grease conveniently to hand, you’d have to know exactly where the lightning was going to strike and you’d need a really thick rubber suit to protect you from instant electrocution. Finally you’d need an extremely long self supporting ladder if you were to be able to grease more than the first couple of metres. Still, suffice it to say that it would be much faster once greased and that’s exactly how Aymane Yacine shot off. James Walkington did his best to keep up from his P2 start but his streak was merely wiped with Mr Sheen so he could only grab the silver. Jay Rudd seemed pretty chuffed with third which he took by a second from James Cossins. Jordan Annells secured fifth by a comfortable easifit six seconds from James Smyth and the remaining finishers were as follows; Brad Saunders, Scott Taylor, Joseph Jones, Andre Nicodemou (and Pliers, presumably) and Thomas Goodwin who was driving a kart that had obviously developed a pretty serious chassis twist in the preceding heat.

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Buckmore Junior Club 11-16 Summer Round 6 (Summer Series); Aymane Wins from Jamie & Keiran

Sometimes a guy can just try too hard and over drive himself into a poor finish. I’ve seen it when wives come to watch though this seems to happen less with the junior club drivers for some reason. A case in point today is Callum Spencer who had spent the morning being watched by a relative making all the right noises about helping with the race budget. As a result Callum made mistakes and failed to feature in the A final. With his mystery benefactor, or uncle Phil now back on the M1 Callum found form and went lights to flag with two seconds to spare over the far more experienced Keiran Tyson who rose from eighth. Keiran was pushed all the way by the human dynamo that is Aymane Yacine who crossed a third of a thingy later for third. Alex Nevill drove a consistent race to finish slap bang where he started, in fourth, but at least he had the satisfaction of keeping the Mighty Midget Carl Williams at (Herne) bay. Rhys Terry found his race spoiled when he became the result of a mistake by Harry Sutton which resulted in Rhys getting a chance to view the oncoming traffic.

By race eleven the rain had headed off to taunt some other sport and the strong breeze had sort of hair dried the track again. The line up was pretty star studded for this heat and we were on the edge of our seats as the lights went green. Aymane Yacine turned out to be top dog after capitalising on his P2 start. The poleman was Toby Cook but in this battle he was overcome first by Aymane then by Keiran Tyson. A lap or so later the Mighty Midget slipped by for third and finally Sam Lawrence took fourth from him. Strange though as Toby again set the second fastest lap of the race. Stuart Anderson failed to complete a single lap as the pit crew had overlooked locking his seat which suddenly shot back leaving him bereft of pedal access. We rescheduled him for race twelve.

If a few drivers had found themselves rudely deposited in the B final then it follows that a few names would show in the A final, and so it came to pass. The poleman for today was (apologies in advance) Jamie Vunnijd’s who shared the front row with Kieran Tyson. The scene is set when I tell you the second row consisted of Jesse Chamberlain and Alice Goad. The race was far better disciplined than the shambles of an A final delivered by the younger group but there were still a few liberties taken that will be addressed privately with the drivers concerned away from the glare of publicity. In an exciting for some and bitterly disappointing for others race we watched Aymayne Yacine come all the way from the depths of the back row to snatch the lead which he then stretched to nearly three seconds. This guy must have a season ticket for the podium. Poleman Jamie Cummyhns (nearly!) put in a bravura performance for which he was rewarded with the silver by half a second from a very focused and determined Keiran Tyson. Murray Knott had his best result of the season so far when he crossed in fourth. Jesse Chamberlain was very disappointed to find himself in fifth but at the end of the day he has ended up just two points off the Championship lead with another round to go. Seth James had returned to form this afternoon (compared to the morning that is) and led the second wave from sixth. Following him home for tea were Ryan Dummigns (nearly there), Tom Storrar, Alice Goad, Alex Nevill new boy Danny Hurlock , the Mighty Midget who’d got tripped up while challenging for a top three place, and first timer to this age group, Callum Spencer.
Keiran Tyson leads the series by a mighty small margin of just two points over Jesse Chamberlain and then it remains real close between the Mighty Midget, Jamie Vimmibg’s, Aymane Yacine and Ivan May-Jones. Ooh, I can feel the tension from here.
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Report author: Alan Wood

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More Records Broken than in Beijing: Aymane new Lap Record holder

Edge of the seat stuff all the way

The special Junior Club 11-16 1200 race on the 12th of August was indeed special in all sorts of ways. Firstly despite a forecast of torrential and constant rain all day, it remained as near dry as makes no odds. Sure there were a couple of half hearted and short lived sprinklings but never enough to moisten the flap of an envelope. Secondly, the day was memorable for the number of times the lap record was broken and finally for the quality of racing in the A final which was worthy of the highest praise available from High Praise World PLC.
As is so often the case race one got things underway and here we witnessed Alex Tucker start his afternoon of with a maximum twelve points after swapping his P5 start for a win which he ensured by crossing the line fully ten seconds before anyone else. Smiley Ronnie Stracey flew up the order to take second place. Not bad considering he started way back in eleventh. Aymane Yacine has been particularly impressive since his first appearance at Buckmore earlier this year. He impressed again in this race by slipping by both Older brothers for third. Then came the siblings Darren and Matthew Older. It must get very confusing when someone asks which is the Older brother and both say in unison ‘We both are’.

Toby Cook then decided that he’d like to be the lap record holder as well as the race winner so he achieved both in race six where he’d started from the very back of the pack. The new record now stood at 56.414 (for a few minutes anyway). Toby pulled a healthy six seconds clear of James Walkington who had picked up one place along the way. Third from twelfth is quite a target but one achieved by the dynamo that is Aymane Yacine. He only just made it though as Jay Rudd had his sights set firmly on that very place and at the line the margin was a miniscule cooper s uno tenthio. (sorry, I went mad then). When he arrived in cricket whites at the sign in desk I thought Connor Burdett had also gone mad but he clearly had a busy sporting day. In this heat he came home just a tenthling behind the aforementioned duo.

When you watch karts passing the window every day and have done for nearly eight years you can imagine it takes a fair bit to get me on the edge of my seat. The A final today did just that and even more amazingly it got Bill all excited too and he’s been at this karting malarkey for nearly half a century when karts were still in black and white. The race made F1 look about as exciting as last night’s Indian takeaway. It was stunning. It was stupendous. It was earth shattering. But enough of the superlatives, here is the story.
From pole Toby Cook led for a while before falling foul of a bit of intimacy from another competitor. I thought that was it as Toby was now way down the order there must have been an excess calorie enhanced woman with vocal attributes in the vicinity as it clearly wasn’t over. Our attention was at the sharp end where Seth James and Ivan May-Jones were locked in combat as they fought it out for control of the race. Then at the apex of hairpin one these two touched and the ensuing friction of sidepods touching took the speed right out of the pair and allowed first Aymane Yacine and then Toby Cook to rejoin the party. This four man cabaret kept us enthralled for the next few laps with no one driver appearing to have the upper hand. The screen twice flashed up “New Lap Record” but we couldn’t take our eyes off the circuit. Mere words fail me here as I try unsuccessfully to recreate the excitement and tension so I will cut to the final chase, the last lap. It was a toss up as they headed around Symes and out of our sight for the very last time as to who would come up the hill in front. The bets were evenly spread I have to say. As they headed back into view it was Seth James by a whisker over Toby Cook for first and second and a brilliant last lap saw the screen again light up “New Lap Record” and this time we knew it was Aymane Yacine with a brilliant 56.310 and a bronze trophy. Ivan May-Jones is never far from the sharp end and again here he finished a very close fourth. No prize perhaps but his reputation must have been enhanced by his performance in this final.

Alex Tucker finished not last overall as he had predicted but in a very creditable fifth. A couple of tenths later Alice Goad crossed for fifth. All the way from the depths of the B final to sixth overall, that’s the rags to riches story of Alex Crump who led the remaining finalists home from seventh. Those following were James Walkington, Ronnie Stracey our visitor Connor Lewis who had been granted a promotion from the B as James Swatton had accidentally gone home too soon! Then it was Jay Rudd and Alex Nevill who found his kart had tired quicker than the driver. And so ends one of the best race days for ages. I hope you all enjoyed it as much as we on the staff did.

Report author: Alan Wood

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