North, Barnes early leaders

David Barbosa trails Bermuda Karting Club president Jason North by just 11 points as racing returns to Southside on Sunday.

North has 122 points in the TAG Senior Class so far in this young season.

Six drivers have put the pedal down in the class with Steven Eversley third over, one point shy of 100 points.

Luis Martins (91 points), Patrick Ingham (87) and Steven Bridges (11) have also been behind the wheel.

Scott Barnes leads the 125cc Shifter Class with 108 points and is just 14 points ahead of Brandon Frank. Rian Lindo (81), Ben Savill (67) and Andrew DeCosta (25) round out the top five.

David Brewster has a commanding lead so far in the Senior Clone Class with 125 points. Both Justin Frank and Blake Camara have 25 points.

Stephen Corrado is the only driver in the Junior 3 Clone Class. He has 65 points.

Racing is expected to get underway around 12:30pm on Sunday.

Admission is free and spectators are welcome to visit the pits and ask questions to both the drivers and the mechanics.

“We want people to come down and look around. We’re allowing people in the pits so they can ask questions and get interested in the sport.

Free

“We don’t want to scare them away by charging a fee to get in.

“Right now it’s free so they can mingle around.

“They can come into the pits throughout the day and ask questions to the drivers.

North added: “Luis Martins is an old kart racer who is back out. Steven Bridges and Steven Flood are going to be teaming up. There is an interest in some older drivers in coming back out.

“Last week was our first actually race day and we had four or five drivers who didn’t make it down to the track. Shannon Caisey is going to be racing and a few other drivers who we have lined up who couldn’t make this first race day.

“This wasn’t a scheduled race day – it was a make-up race day for a rain-out.”

He said the first race day was washed out by rain, but every driver who showed up got 25 points for the championship series.

He said the numbers are small now, but he hopes to build it throughout the season. North added he would like to get around 30 karts per race day, which he admits “is pretty far-fetched right now. It would be phenomenal if we could, but that’s two or three years from now.

“We have to take small steps to get there.”