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.
Pictures courtesy of Gary Kimber of Southern Karting Magazine
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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Buckmore Park Lap Records:

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