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- GTP_PendleDuke
The Northwest Karting Challenge and Social Gathering
I'm going to organise a karting event in the northwest UK.
The purpose of this post is firstly to gauge interest, and then progress if I can drum up sufficient numbers.
It's OK if you want to bring a couple of mates along. This will be a fun event, where we can meet up and put a few faces to names.
Although the title states "Northwest", if you're willing to make the trip all are welcome. The venue will be NW UK.
If you are interested, please post on this thread, giving me Name (eg. Duke of Pendle), number of places required.
Update:
I'm aiming for around 20 participants, so I would encourage you guys to consider bringing a friend or two, to help pad out the numbers.
This is the venue; http://www.speedkarting.co.uk/
It looks like an awesome venue, and we can do a Grands Prix event for £45/head.
UPDATE:
Venue www.speedkarting.co.uk booked for Saturday 18th April @ 8.30pm.
SPEEDKARTING LTD
Unit 2, Bank Quay Trading Estate
Warrington
Cheshire
WA1 1PJ
Tel 01925 415114
Duration of the event approx 2hr 15min
STOP Press!!! There will be a trophy for the highest placed GTP Driver
1 Duke of Pendle Phil
2 Bill Tebay
3 Duncan
4 Roo N P De Lacy
5 GTP_Wanna_B John Paul
6 Stacey
7 Carl Wilkes
8 Mike Greenhough
9 Gavin Fletcher
10 Nicola Poole
11 Will Crooke
12 Stuart taylor
13 Gareth Greenhalgh
14 Stotty Chris
15 Stevisiov Steve
16 PrudentBear John
17 TheWinkler Rob
18 BruntonPasc Richard
19 Matt1245 Matt Holland
20 Mrs Matt
21 Fastas Dan
22 Sureboss Nigel
Please arrive by 8.15 pm at the VERY LATEST
I have just been informed that all participants must be minimum 18 years of age, but I don't believe that's an issue for us. However, if you look like you could be younger than 18, please bring some proof of age. I will be bringing my passport
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Strict rule: No drinking of alcohol before the event. If it is suspected that you have been drinking, you will not be allowed to race.
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Indeed, we had a great night of racing.
The venue lived up to expectations; friendly personnel, good consistent equipment, challenging track, professional and slick organisation of the event.
I would certainly recommend this venue to anyone.
It's always great to put faces to names. Everyone arrived in good time, and my first impressions were................everyone is so, well...tall!!!
I was certainly in the minority, being one of the very few sub-six footers.
The racing was close and competitive, everyone completing 5 races to accumulate points in order to qualify for the final. Top ten points scorers competed in the slightly longer final race.
Stotty was class of the field, winning the final.
Roo pushed him hard all night, subsequently taking second place in the final.
I came third, probably thanks more to defensive tactics than with outright pace.
Leaderboard prior to Final (GTP members in bold):
Stotty_______________44 points
Wanna_B_____________40 points
DukeOfPendle_________39 points
PrudentBear__________39 points
Duncan_______________39 points
Stevisiov_____________33 points
Roo_________________32 points
Carl__________________31 points
Fastas_______________31 points
Taylor________________30 points
Mike__________________26 points
Gavin_________________24 points
Bill___________________23 points
Richard_______________19 points
TheWinkler____________17 points (psn name)
BigWill69______________16 points (psn name)
Stacey_______________14 points
Sureshot______________13 points
GTP_MJH______________11 points
Nicci_________________11 points
Abigail________________7 points
After an evening-long tussle with Stotty, Roo ended the night with fastest lap.
Thanks to everyone for making the effort to turn up and making this event a success. Stotty's talking about organising a similar event in the South - I'll look forward to that!
Hopefully photos to follow.
OP updated with this report.
I'm going to organise a karting event in the northwest UK.
The purpose of this post is firstly to gauge interest, and then progress if I can drum up sufficient numbers.
It's OK if you want to bring a couple of mates along. This will be a fun event, where we can meet up and put a few faces to names.
Although the title states "Northwest", if you're willing to make the trip all are welcome. The venue will be NW UK.
If you are interested, please post on this thread, giving me Name (eg. Duke of Pendle), number of places required.
Update:
I'm aiming for around 20 participants, so I would encourage you guys to consider bringing a friend or two, to help pad out the numbers.
This is the venue; http://www.speedkarting.co.uk/
It looks like an awesome venue, and we can do a Grands Prix event for £45/head.
UPDATE:
Venue www.speedkarting.co.uk booked for Saturday 18th April @ 8.30pm.
SPEEDKARTING LTD
Unit 2, Bank Quay Trading Estate
Warrington
Cheshire
WA1 1PJ
Tel 01925 415114
Duration of the event approx 2hr 15min
STOP Press!!! There will be a trophy for the highest placed GTP Driver
1 Duke of Pendle Phil
2 Bill Tebay
3 Duncan
4 Roo N P De Lacy
5 GTP_Wanna_B John Paul
6 Stacey
7 Carl Wilkes
8 Mike Greenhough
9 Gavin Fletcher
10 Nicola Poole
11 Will Crooke
12 Stuart taylor
14 Stotty Chris
15 Stevisiov Steve
16 PrudentBear John
17 TheWinkler Rob
18 BruntonPasc Richard
19 Matt1245 Matt Holland
20 Mrs Matt
21 Fastas Dan
22 Sureboss Nigel
Please arrive by 8.15 pm at the VERY LATEST
I have just been informed that all participants must be minimum 18 years of age, but I don't believe that's an issue for us. However, if you look like you could be younger than 18, please bring some proof of age. I will be bringing my passport
.Strict rule: No drinking of alcohol before the event. If it is suspected that you have been drinking, you will not be allowed to race.
_________________________________________________________________
_______________________________________________________
*** EVENT REPORT***
Indeed, we had a great night of racing.
The venue lived up to expectations; friendly personnel, good consistent equipment, challenging track, professional and slick organisation of the event.
I would certainly recommend this venue to anyone.
It's always great to put faces to names. Everyone arrived in good time, and my first impressions were................everyone is so, well...tall!!!
I was certainly in the minority, being one of the very few sub-six footers.
The racing was close and competitive, everyone completing 5 races to accumulate points in order to qualify for the final. Top ten points scorers competed in the slightly longer final race.
Stotty was class of the field, winning the final.
Roo pushed him hard all night, subsequently taking second place in the final.
I came third, probably thanks more to defensive tactics than with outright pace.
Leaderboard prior to Final (GTP members in bold):
Stotty_______________44 points
Wanna_B_____________40 points
DukeOfPendle_________39 points
PrudentBear__________39 points
Duncan_______________39 points
Stevisiov_____________33 points
Roo_________________32 points
Carl__________________31 points
Fastas_______________31 points
Taylor________________30 points
Mike__________________26 points
Gavin_________________24 points
Bill___________________23 points
Richard_______________19 points
TheWinkler____________17 points (psn name)
BigWill69______________16 points (psn name)
Stacey_______________14 points
Sureshot______________13 points
GTP_MJH______________11 points
Nicci_________________11 points
Abigail________________7 points
After an evening-long tussle with Stotty, Roo ended the night with fastest lap.
Thanks to everyone for making the effort to turn up and making this event a success. Stotty's talking about organising a similar event in the South - I'll look forward to that!
Hopefully photos to follow.
OP updated with this report.
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, yes a rematch sounds nice.
