'Superkarts' are back at Castle Combe again for the Spring Bank Holiday RaceDay on Monday May 27 to wow the crowds with their speed just as they did atthe last meeting on May 6.This time it's the BSA National championships for 125cc machines, which thereigning CIK FIA European Superkart Champion Lee Harpham has chosen for hisUK based racing effort. Lee leads the series having won every one of thefour races held so far. Louise Colin from Swindon is one of only two ladiesracing Superkarts in the UK and will be on board her Anderson/Pavesi.After one of the most thrilling Startline Formula Ford Champiosnhip battlesever at the last round, Saltford's Steven Jensen has become the firmfavourite for this year's honours. Whilst he was narrowly beaten byBratton's Ben Norton, the latter is only contesting occasional races,leaving Jensen a free hand to mop up the points. Jensen and his Kevin MillsRacing Spectrum 011B seem to have a significant advantage over cars such asthe Van Diemen RF00 of his team-mate Roger Orgee from Langford, though whenMelksham's Ed Moore gets on top of his brand new JL013K example, thingscould be different.Adam Higgins from Chippenham, is another Van Diemen pilot in class A, andalways a good points scorer, regardless of his qualifying position. AshleyCrossey from Flax Bourton is also a KMR team member keen to get his Spectrumworking as well as Jensen's.Class B has Coventry's Nathan Ward in the Swift as a likely front runner.Iain Houston, the class C leader, is tied equally on points with both Wardand Jensen at the top of the charts.In the Castle Combe Saloon Car championship supported by NationalWindscreens, the pace of Bristol's Mark Wyatt is every bit as impressive asthat of Jensen in the Formula Fords. His Astra, with its new wider track, issignificantly quicker than its rival class A brethren, though some added'success ballast' could limit his progress this time out.Also weighted down, after two class wins, the championship lead and topnotch outright finishes, is Corsham's Will Di Claudio in his class C Peugeot106, the additional kilos likely to have quite an effect in a car whichrelies on light weight for much of its speed.Wyatt's main class B challenger is Bridgwater's Tony Dolley in the Peugeot206, whilst Seend's Adrian Slade is the man edging ever closer to Di Claudioin his class. Calne's Martin Chivers will be on a high after winning theopen saloons race last time in his MG ZR.In the A class for the biggest engined cars, Melksham's Rob Ballard has hisSEAT Leon, Tony Hutchings from Calne will be hoping to have sorted theengine of his Audi TT from last time and Vauxhall VXR Turbos are in thehands of Keynsham's John Barnard and Seend's Julian Ellison. Bath driversAngus Gorringe and Dave Scaramanga have their VW Polo and Bora respectivelyand will be rivals in the open sports v saloons race too.The D class has Charles Hyde-Andrews-Bird from Ditcheat as the likely winnerin his Fiesta.The Siliconehoses.com Sports & GT Championship race is likely to be a catand mouse affair, where the faster cars spend most of the race chasing afterthe quick starters such as Trowbridge's Andrew Shanley in the simple buteffective Radical Prosport.Simon Tilling is the big cat, his Radical SR3 even more powerful this year,but not quite as reliable as it needs to be to mount another championshipchallenge. Manhal Allos has V8 power in the back of his class A car whilstJosh Smith, from Weston Super Mare, a PR6 version of the ubiquitous Radical.The eye popping Chevrolet engined TVR Tuscan of Perry Waddams leads class Dfor production based sports and saloon cars.There are two Nippon challenge races which cater mainly for production andmodified Japanese sports and saloon cars, with other Asian makes such asProton and Hyundai thrown in for variety. Classes based on horsepower andweight keep things even.Japanese cars with a series of their own are the Toyota MR2s, the rulesdesigned to ensure the drivers have some of the most cost effective racingavailable. So, the cars run with virtually no modifications from standard,save for safety and reliability. They have a couple of plays too.Monday's action starts at 08.40 with qualifying, racing getting under wayfrom 13.00.Admission prices are £15 for Adults, £10.00 for OAPs, £2.50 for PaddockTransfer, whilst accompanied children under 17 are admitted free.
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