High Court productions in association with University of Essex, The Focal Point Gallery and SCC will be airing a documentary on JHR and the first year racing. The documentary tells the story of Jacob starting his racing career in rental karts and quickly moving up to owner karts and the creation of our own race team. The documentary showcases our journey accompanied by videos, interviews and trackside reports. Click here to read full article
24 Hour Endurance Race at Buckmore Park
Our team, The Bayford Bandits do really well on our first ever 24 hour endurance race. Our team was made of eight owner-drivers. We were completing against 25 different teams in very trick conditions throughout the weekend. We qualified well in 7th and each took it in turns to do our 1.5 hour stints, of which we will do two, so 3 hours driving for each of us. Click here to read full article
Round 1 of the BMKC 2023 Championship
This weekend is the start of the BMKR 2023 championship. The weekend started wet & cold with conditions improving for Sunday’s race. Qualifying didn’t quite go to plan. On lights out in the first pre-final I held my position and pushed as hard as I could to make up some places finishing the race in 10th. The 2nd pre-final I finished where I started and the final was a slight improvement with a drop nose penalty. Click here to read full article
Start of the LIKC 2023 Summer Championship
It’s been a busy week of karting, and this weekend is no different. We are down at Lydd International Kart Circuit for the start of the LIKC 2023 Summer Championship over the next three days. Sunday went well. We qualified on the front row in 2nd place, at the start of the first race we held our position and pushed hard to overtake the leader but just couldn’t quite manage it, so we finished heat one 2nd with fastest lap of the race. Click here to read full article
JHR Test day at PFI
This was our fourth visit to PFI in recent months. We were testing lots of different kart set-ups. We found a set-up that worked really well for us resulting in a good day. We got faster and faster in each session and ended the day setting a personal best and that was on well used tyres that have done two previous race weekends and two test sessions, so we couldn’t have asked for more. Click here to read full article
Final round of the BMKR winter championship
Final round of the BMKR winter championship. Saturday was very wet and cold and Sunday was cold. Working out how to get the best of the tyres was a challenge this weekend. We didn’t reach our potential this weekend, only just making it into the top 10. We did however finish the championship in 8th place overall out of 25 drivers, so pretty happy with that as it was our first winter championship. Click here to read full article
Back to back podiums in final winter round
It’s the final round of the LIKC Winter Championship…. Round 5. Saturday practice went to plan, the kart was fast and we had a solid day without any issues enabling us to concentrate on set-up for tomorrows race. Sundays qualifying went well, round 1 had a disappointing end and then the pre-final and final went to plan. Not quite a win buy the second back to back second place podium. Click here to read full article
A weekend to forget at BMKR Winter R2
It’s back to back race weekends as we arrive at Bayford Meadows for round 2 of the Junior Rotax winter championship. Saturday practice went well, we were fast, the kart felt good and lap times showed that. Sunday however was a different story, qualified in 8th so that wasn’t bad but it all fell apart after that with lots of contact, damage and two DNF’s Click here to read full article
JHR Welcome National Tyres
JHR are proud to announce another new partnership for our 2023 season. We are excited to welcome National Tyres, a Halfords company, to our kart team. National Tyres were established in 1970 and acquired by Halfords in 2021. They have over 600 garages with a combined total of over 1,400 fixed or mobile Motoring Services locations throughout the UK Click here to read full article
Podium finish at LIKC Winter Round 4
It’s great to be back at Lydd Kart Circuit, after missing the last two rounds, for round 4 of the LIKC Winter Championship. Saturday practice was a constant battle with problems but we managed to work our way through them. Sunday didn’t start much better when we had a rear hub failure. Luckily we raced hard and had two 3rd place finishes and after an amazing drive a second place finish in the grand final. Click here to read full article