CAMELFORD kart racer Alex Quinn made the long journey to Scotland and secured another top spot on the podium.
Alex, 12, is racing in three separate British Championships in the cadet karting class for nine to 13-year-olds.
Last weekend saw the first round of the 'Little Green Man' championship which will be contested over eight rounds all over the UK.
The long journey to Larkhall in Lanarkshire, just south of Glasgow, did not deter Alex from stepping right up to the pace on the Saturday testing.
Unofficial timing reported Alex to be fastest on the demanding Scottish circuit. Weather conditions on the Saturday were dry and Alex got an opportunity to test different kart set up techniques using the new IAME Parilla engine which has been introduced to the cadet class this year. Sunday morning brought heavy rain. Alex was competing against 46 other drivers. The heats were randomly selected and run over five sessions with each competitor running in three heats.
In Alex's first heat, he was on pole position and off the line Alex battled closely with another competitor before finishing in first place in the slippy conditions.
In Heat 2 for Alex, weather conditions had dried enough to enable the competitors to drive on slick tyres. As the track was still a little damp in some areas, many karts collided on the first big corner on the opening lap.
Alex started in 14th position on this heat and managed to swerve his way through the first corner making his way up to finish second.
In the three heats, the grids are randomly selected to promote fairness to all the drivers with a driver having a front, a middle and a rear starting position.
As Alex started on pole in the first heat, he had to, therefore, start in last position on his final heat of the day. Once again Alex managed to miss an incident at the start and worked his way through the field to finish in fourth place, securing the fastest lap in this heat.
During the lunch break, the organisers of the Championship welcomed all drivers onto the track for a Drivers Parade introducing each driver to the large crowd of spectators and gave a background to the Championship.
This gave the organisers an opportunity to calculate the grid positions and Alex would start the final in P2 on the grid. Alex got a good start and settled into the 15-lap race behind two other competitors.
Early on, he made a move on his first driver and several laps later, he went for the lead passing the second competitor. A nerve-wracking series of laps went by with very close racing between the two drivers.
On the penultimate corner Alex lost his lead and went over the line in second place. However, in post race scrutineering the other competitor was underweight and unfortunately excluded from the results promoting Alex to first place.
