Local kart racers honoured at awards night

Local kart racers honoured at awards night

14 December 2011

GALGORM Manor was the focus of the Northern Ireland karting fraternity recently when they celebrated another great year in the sport at a combined North of Ireland Karting Association and Ulster Karting Club awards ceremony.

Over two hundred drivers, their teams and their families saw one of the largest array of awards in the UK handed out for both the Northern Ireland and Ulster championships as well as awards for numerous individual achievements.

NIKA chairman Richard Dewart reminded all that NIKA was primarily a co-ordinating body and was in fact made up of representatives of the four clubs in the province that run karting race meetings under the rules of the governing bodies.

He paid tribute to all those committee members who give up their time voluntarily to help see the sport continue to thrive in what are uncertain economic times and also to past chairperson Trison McMullan for his work.

He also congratulated Carryduff’s Charlie Eastwood, who took a well deserved eighth in his European championship debut as well as eighth in the Super One series.

The efforts by the Nutts Corner circuit owners to see it now raised to the highest standard ever did not go unnoticed either, and in his address the UKC chairperson Vince McCaffrey paid a special thanks to the Eastwood family for the efforts also put into the awards ceremony organisation.

The Ulster Karting Club will hold a special race on Tuesday, December 27, with the next winter championship rounds at Kirkistown taking place on January 14 and February 12.