Auckland Blokart Club News

2010 Worlds - Day 2

While waiting for the official start we had a demo of the "Jet Blokart" created by the Dutch Jan Meijer. Ideal for days like this when the wind lets us down.

During the wait the race officials conducted spot checks of the blokarts, and a number of the pilots had their karts red-flagged and had to address rule violations.

Then we had a Team NZ group photo. Included was Steve Barlow & Mark Trotter from Dubai. Other NZers missing from the photo were Nick Murray, Tammo Bremer, from Switzerland and member of the Canturbury Blokat Club, and Steve Harvey from the UK.




Sailing finally got underway at 4:20 pm! We had all arrived at 8 am for a full days sailing, and expected to be sailing under lights at 8 pm.


First up were the Performance Heavyweights - Russel 2nd, Nicko 4th sailed in light conditions.

Performance Superheavies saw Theo 1st, Paul B 3rd.

Lightweights sailed in the same race and saw Angus 2nd & Gabe 4th.

The final race of the day was Performance Middleweights, which was called off before the dial-up completed, and the pilots waited in their start for 10 minutes. The start was mostly wheeling and was called off at the second mark with Grant running 2nd at the time.

Tomorrow we expect to be back on the beach, but rain may accompany the wind.

Cheers, Grant