@@JoyMallett Top 2 were Brummies and easily could have been top 4 if kart selection didn't ruin it for 2 of them. Can't wait to go again next year, really enjoyed the entire process starting from back on June 1st with qualifying for the local finals, next year I know Oscar will be even better prepared with even sharper race craft, that he'll also be able to get some practoce time in before the finals and that he won't be struggling from a flu jab right before. I also take some responsibility as I should have called Oscar in to change his kart in the qualifier, he didn't realise he was half a second + off his pace from back in July in a public session when realistically he should have been quicker than back then and starting in atleast p3 or higher for the heats. We'll spend this next year analysing his races and working hard on places we can identify he can improve on in terms of defending and attacking. If he gets a bad kart next time he needs to be absolutely solid with his defence and learn a few tricks, one that we spotted which is in this video which made him pull out of an overtake he would have got if he stayed commited. As we learnt in the Birmingham local finals there's kart craft and crafty karting, he needs to master both area's so he's equipped to deal with what he comes up against out there.
There is a large element of luck involved in getting through each stage of the BIKC. We held (petrol) and hold the (electric) fastest lap times at Teamsport Birmingham and knew before the local finals only really 2 other karters (Jayden Steatham and Hayden Adams) should be huge threats to us. But on the day Tasos G got the fastest kart of the fleet and set his PB in qualifying putting us in p2 for the final, he's never been near our lap times. Then on turn 3, a hairpin onto the upramp, we had a chance of getting on the inside of Tasos but took a nudge in the back from Hayden which sent us out wide into the back of Tasos right at the bottom of the upramp and cost us our speed as Hayden and Jayden got the inside line and passed us. So 8 seconds in and we were down to p4 unfairly, but the marshalls didn't spot it (our helmet cam footage did). A few laps later we had closed the gap and got past Hayden into p3, then for several laps Hayden was right on our bumper and we received multiple small taps on the hairpins until Hayden and also Adam Tice got past us putting us into p5. Again the marshalls did nothing despite Oscar clearly showing his dissatisfaction. From there on Oscar just held 5th position for qualification and on the day set his slowest lap times for many months struggling to get out of the 47 second zone when normally being low 45's into high 44's. Said a lot about the karts we were given. In the regionals in Liverpool, we were told this a week later, we had the 3 worst karts of the fleet through 5 race sessions. Oscar made the final due to mak8ng up positions in a heat and the semi final in decent karts, but in the quali, the other heat and the final he was loosing 1 second a lap off his previous public session time. He started and finished p10 in the final, unable to catch drivers ahead of jim he has passed in the 2 races he had decent karts in. So we didn't make the nationals, but will be back next year with our fingers crossed for a little more luck and may see you there 👊🏼
@@markbolton8137 We hope to race with Zak again one day, he's a real talent, I'm sure we'll one day be out on track together in the finals 🤞🏻 We'll be keeping an eye on your channel in the meantime for any new content you post 😊 Can I ask which is your local track as one day we may be able to join you there, we are based in Birmingham.
@@zakboltonracing We'll certainly be aiming for that and we will certainly learn from this tlfirst experience. Oscar has only been karting for 11 months and this is his first karting championships. All of his practice has been in public sessions with adults who sometimes try and bury him into the tyre walls rather than accept a junior is much faster than them. Hopefully soon we'll be able to start attending some members events and get away from public sessions, but it's all down to Oscar choosing to live with me to gain that freedom as his other parent doesn't support this....what I've spent taking her to family court could have paid for Oscar to be in owner kart championships. Hopefully a career ahead for Oscar either as a driver or in the automotive industry which is his passion.
Honestly mate, I’m really gutted you weren’t in the top 3 which you deserved. It was amazing to race with you and talk to you. Next year I’m expecting you to win Juniors as I’m sadly moving to lightweight, good luck to you in the future 🏎️
@@gri_tas It was a combination of karts really that meant in the qualifier Oscar couldn't even get near his time in a previous public session at Liverpool and then in the final meant he couldn't mount a challenge to move up the grid. What this video doesn't show is how hard Oscar had to work to defend hos position in the 2nd half of the final. Still it was a great experience and Oscar isn't phased in the slightest, he's incredibly head strong and we'll just keep on doing what we love together and striving for perfection. As I noted at the very end of the video next year it should be a 1, 2, 3 between Hayden, Jayden and Oscar with you stepping up to adults. But the same to you dude, I hope you smash it in the lightweights, but watch out for Jamie Sheerman, Joseph Simcock, Hamzah Ahmed, Harrison Fisher and a few others who are super experienced with excellent kart craft and pace...they'll certainly help you with your own game. Hope to see you soon at Brum once it re-opens, we'll be trying to dominate the fast lap leaderboards and also fingers crossed be pushing to get Oscar down there for Thursday members events. For now a massive congratulations on P2 and I hope you can make that podium up in Warrington, it's a fantastic track!
@@Oscarmallettracing Thank you very much, hopefully Oscar can do those Thursday Members Events as I know how hard you’ve been battling and once again thank you!
@@gri_tas Hi Tasos....we hope you enjoyed your BIKC national finals experience. We watched live both days. Did you get a penalty as you were suddenly out of contention? However the competition in the juniors was immense, many amazing drivers falling, it was the best category over the weekend to watch. Good news here is Oscar has been upgraded as an advanced (elite level) racer and given the all clear to race in thursday night members events. So as he does he walked into his first ever elite members event on Thursday night (Top Gun), his first time on speed 4 and set (not just once but 3+ times) the fastest ever laps of Teamsport Bormingham, fastest being a 44.014, a 44.037 and a 44.055 and so on. He now is top of the adult score board and the elite members score board 🥳 So of your ever there for a Thursday elite members event that's where you'll find us. Would be great to race you again, the newly awoken BIKC rapid Tasos 😁
@ Thank you very much, I did unfortunately get a 5 second time penalty for an incident which I believe I wasn’t a part of so that was quite frustrating but at least it wasn’t last place, Jayden and Hayden got through to the grand finals so that was good for our Birmingham boys. Congratulations to Oscar for going top of the adult leaderboard, he is a generational talent and I won’t be surprised if I see him winning BIKC 2025. Oscar has always been rapid at Birmingham and now he’s going to be even quicker than everyone else. Good luck in the future guys and I hope I see you guys on the top step of every podium 💪🦁
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Well done Oscar 👏 well done all. You done Birmingham proud 😊👍🏎
@@JoyMallett Top 2 were Brummies and easily could have been top 4 if kart selection didn't ruin it for 2 of them.
Can't wait to go again next year, really enjoyed the entire process starting from back on June 1st with qualifying for the local finals, next year I know Oscar will be even better prepared with even sharper race craft, that he'll also be able to get some practoce time in before the finals and that he won't be struggling from a flu jab right before.
I also take some responsibility as I should have called Oscar in to change his kart in the qualifier, he didn't realise he was half a second + off his pace from back in July in a public session when realistically he should have been quicker than back then and starting in atleast p3 or higher for the heats.
We'll spend this next year analysing his races and working hard on places we can identify he can improve on in terms of defending and attacking.
If he gets a bad kart next time he needs to be absolutely solid with his defence and learn a few tricks, one that we spotted which is in this video which made him pull out of an overtake he would have got if he stayed commited.
As we learnt in the Birmingham local finals there's kart craft and crafty karting, he needs to master both area's so he's equipped to deal with what he comes up against out there.
I was in ts Bristol & i was gonnah get into the grand final but i got punted into the barrier i was rlly mad. Congrats btw im Fin Races
There is a large element of luck involved in getting through each stage of the BIKC.
We held (petrol) and hold the (electric) fastest lap times at Teamsport Birmingham and knew before the local finals only really 2 other karters (Jayden Steatham and Hayden Adams) should be huge threats to us.
But on the day Tasos G got the fastest kart of the fleet and set his PB in qualifying putting us in p2 for the final, he's never been near our lap times.
Then on turn 3, a hairpin onto the upramp, we had a chance of getting on the inside of Tasos but took a nudge in the back from Hayden which sent us out wide into the back of Tasos right at the bottom of the upramp and cost us our speed as Hayden and Jayden got the inside line and passed us. So 8 seconds in and we were down to p4 unfairly, but the marshalls didn't spot it (our helmet cam footage did).
A few laps later we had closed the gap and got past Hayden into p3, then for several laps Hayden was right on our bumper and we received multiple small taps on the hairpins until Hayden and also Adam Tice got past us putting us into p5. Again the marshalls did nothing despite Oscar clearly showing his dissatisfaction.
From there on Oscar just held 5th position for qualification and on the day set his slowest lap times for many months struggling to get out of the 47 second zone when normally being low 45's into high 44's. Said a lot about the karts we were given.
In the regionals in Liverpool, we were told this a week later, we had the 3 worst karts of the fleet through 5 race sessions. Oscar made the final due to mak8ng up positions in a heat and the semi final in decent karts, but in the quali, the other heat and the final he was loosing 1 second a lap off his previous public session time. He started and finished p10 in the final, unable to catch drivers ahead of jim he has passed in the 2 races he had decent karts in.
So we didn't make the nationals, but will be back next year with our fingers crossed for a little more luck and may see you there 👊🏼
@@Oscarmallettracing good luck, hopefully ill be there
Well done Oscar, great racing!
@@markbolton8137 We hope to race with Zak again one day, he's a real talent, I'm sure we'll one day be out on track together in the finals 🤞🏻
We'll be keeping an eye on your channel in the meantime for any new content you post 😊
Can I ask which is your local track as one day we may be able to join you there, we are based in Birmingham.
you raced amazingly, no doubt you'll be in nationals next year!
@@zakboltonracing We'll certainly be aiming for that and we will certainly learn from this tlfirst experience.
Oscar has only been karting for 11 months and this is his first karting championships. All of his practice has been in public sessions with adults who sometimes try and bury him into the tyre walls rather than accept a junior is much faster than them.
Hopefully soon we'll be able to start attending some members events and get away from public sessions, but it's all down to Oscar choosing to live with me to gain that freedom as his other parent doesn't support this....what I've spent taking her to family court could have paid for Oscar to be in owner kart championships.
Hopefully a career ahead for Oscar either as a driver or in the automotive industry which is his passion.
Honestly mate, I’m really gutted you weren’t in the top 3 which you deserved. It was amazing to race with you and talk to you. Next year I’m expecting you to win Juniors as I’m sadly moving to lightweight, good luck to you in the future 🏎️
@@gri_tas It was a combination of karts really that meant in the qualifier Oscar couldn't even get near his time in a previous public session at Liverpool and then in the final meant he couldn't mount a challenge to move up the grid.
What this video doesn't show is how hard Oscar had to work to defend hos position in the 2nd half of the final.
Still it was a great experience and Oscar isn't phased in the slightest, he's incredibly head strong and we'll just keep on doing what we love together and striving for perfection.
As I noted at the very end of the video next year it should be a 1, 2, 3 between Hayden, Jayden and Oscar with you stepping up to adults.
But the same to you dude, I hope you smash it in the lightweights, but watch out for Jamie Sheerman, Joseph Simcock, Hamzah Ahmed, Harrison Fisher and a few others who are super experienced with excellent kart craft and pace...they'll certainly help you with your own game.
Hope to see you soon at Brum once it re-opens, we'll be trying to dominate the fast lap leaderboards and also fingers crossed be pushing to get Oscar down there for Thursday members events.
For now a massive congratulations on P2 and I hope you can make that podium up in Warrington, it's a fantastic track!
@@Oscarmallettracing Thank you very much, hopefully Oscar can do those Thursday Members Events as I know how hard you’ve been battling and once again thank you!
@@gri_tas Hi Tasos....we hope you enjoyed your BIKC national finals experience. We watched live both days. Did you get a penalty as you were suddenly out of contention?
However the competition in the juniors was immense, many amazing drivers falling, it was the best category over the weekend to watch.
Good news here is Oscar has been upgraded as an advanced (elite level) racer and given the all clear to race in thursday night members events. So as he does he walked into his first ever elite members event on Thursday night (Top Gun), his first time on speed 4 and set (not just once but 3+ times) the fastest ever laps of Teamsport Bormingham, fastest being a 44.014, a 44.037 and a 44.055 and so on.
He now is top of the adult score board and the elite members score board 🥳
So of your ever there for a Thursday elite members event that's where you'll find us. Would be great to race you again, the newly awoken BIKC rapid Tasos 😁
@ Thank you very much, I did unfortunately get a 5 second time penalty for an incident which I believe I wasn’t a part of so that was quite frustrating but at least it wasn’t last place, Jayden and Hayden got through to the grand finals so that was good for our Birmingham boys. Congratulations to Oscar for going top of the adult leaderboard, he is a generational talent and I won’t be surprised if I see him winning BIKC 2025. Oscar has always been rapid at Birmingham and now he’s going to be even quicker than everyone else. Good luck in the future guys and I hope I see you guys on the top step of every podium 💪🦁