The thirteen year old from Lympsham has had a difficult couple of race meetings recently and really wanted to do well as he is defending the National title in the Honda Cadet class he won last year, in his first year in karting so convincingly.
Opting for the Saturday’s open practice the team worked hard on the set up all day and Robbie was a lot happier with the kart than he has been of late and he proved this by being consistently just two tenths of a second off the lap record.
On the Sunday race day the team woke to a very wet track totally different conditions to the Saturdays testing with Robbie starting from pole and the track by the time Robbie was to race was neither wet or dry tyre choice was difficult and slicks turned out to be the wrong choice with all the other 46 competitors on wets he did well to drop only to 4th. In the second heat starting from 9th Robbie was into the lead before the end of the first lap, then the race was stopped due to an accident on the restart Robbie did well to get up to third only to bumped from behind which nearly spun him out of the race, now back to 12th in just 5 laps he made a tremendous comeback to regain and take 3rd.
Heat three was simply the best race young Robbie has driven this year, starting from 19th and avoiding another accident that happened in front of him which dropped him back to 24th, the never give up sprit he has shown since taking up Karting served him well as he drove a fantastic 6 laps to take a tremendous third. This put Robbie on 4th for the final out of 46 a great achievement, especially as it was only his second visit to the track this year. The 12 lap final was full of incidents and in the first lap Robbie got back up to 4th and first Honda after dropping to 9th as another competitor spun in front of him. As he was there to win the Honda class for the NKRA championship he resisted until the last lap to take 3rd overall and first in his class by a convincing margin.
This has now secured his position as leading Honda Cadet driver in the southern NKRA region and should secure his place in the grand final to be held at Llandow in South Wales in August.
Robbie is back to the track that is his local, the Clay Pigeon track near Yeovil next weekend where Jenson Button first raced in Karts.
Support continues from; Eurocams, Mountney, Lucas Oil, Demon Tweeks, South West Karting, PIAA and Bespoke Mfg.
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