Held at the Autosport International Racing Car show at the NEC on Saturday 14th January, Sahara Force India Formula 1 driver Paul Di Resta handed over the trophies for the MSA British Championship classes, the ABkC National TKM classes, Super Cadet and Comer Cadet to all seeded drivers. Paul Di Resta won the MSA Junior British Championship in the Super One Series in 2001, and commented during an interview that he has now been racing cars longer than karts. Formula KGP, Rotax and Honda Cadet class seeded drivers all received their prizes too, a total of over £60,000 in cash and vouchers handed over. Rotax class winners and best of the rookies all received a Rotax engine courtesy of JAG Engineering, eight engines in all. The MSA’s Technical Director John Symes was present for the British Championship awards to Callan O’Keeffe (Junior) and Tom Joyner (Senior). Joyner had earlier received his main prize of a new Fiat car through winning the championship at PF International in October.
pic by Kartpix.net
Later in the evening nearly 300 competitors and guests of the Ginetta Super One Series enjoyed a celebratory dinner and further award ceremonies at the Hilton Warwick hotel. The Series wishes to thank all partners and supporters including Ginetta Cars, JAG Engineering with Mojo, Tal-Ko with Maxxis, Anderson-CSK with Dunlop, Zip Kart with Bridgestone, ACR and Vega, iZone Driver Performance, Tillotson Carburettors, WP Motorsport, JKH, StingrayRV, Motors TV, SkySport and the Autosport International Racing Car Show. All seeded drivers are congratulated on their success and all competitors and teams thanked for their support of the series.
KF3 Champ Callan O’Keeffe with Paul Di Resta – pic by Kartpix.net
Drivers who have not yet registered for the 2012 Series are urged to book their favoured competition number s on line at http://superoneseries.com/registration/ without delay as grids are filling fast. The trade is reminded that advertising opportunities exist both on the splendid new website on www.s1series.co.uk and in the 2012 programme. Contact John Hoyle on johnhoylejkh1@btinternet.com for full details. Teams are reminded that they can now book reserved parking and preferential arrival times for the 2012 series by downloading the form from http://superoneseries.com/downloads/ .
For 2012, the winners in Rotax Max, Junior Max and Max 177/Masters will each receive a free entry to the 2012 Rotax Max Challenge Grand Finals, to be held at Portimao in Portugal. In addition each will receive a prize of an engine, and so will the top Rookie in each of these classes plus MiniMax, all courtesy of the Super One and JAG, Rotax distributors for the UK. All Rookie overall winners will also enjoy a full factory tour of the Mercedes GP Petronas F1 team.
In addition, and new for 2012, the top Max 177 Rookie driver at each round will receive a £300 cash prize and the overall 177 Rookie £500. And the best overall Max 177/Masters driver in the series will be awarded £1500, the second placed £750 and third will get £500.
In Formula KGP the top three in the series will each receive a Formula Renault test, and the KF3, Junior Max and Junior TKM champions all have a Ginetta G40 test lined up for them, subject to age. Another benefit for all competitors is a great discount package from Alamo, one of the biggest car and van rental companies.
For all details visit www.s1series.co.uk
