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.

Pictures by Gary Kimber of Southern Karting Magazine
Report author: Alan Wood

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