Welcome to the Shenington Kart Racing Circuit website - Home of the Shenington Kart Racing Club!

Latest news and information will appear below.  More News Pages here Lets Go Karting, Junior Practice School, ARKS Schools and Prokarting at Shenington see further down the page.

Entries for the September meeting will appear here:
Shenington participated in National Motorsports Week during the practice days on 12 & 14 August, and raceday on 15 August.
The purpose of National Motorsport Week (7^th – 15^th August) is to promote and inspire the excitement of motorsport to new audiences, and to generate more interest, more spectators, more competitors, more jobs, more marshals and more officials. The week is an initiative from the Motorsport Industry Association (MIA), Motor Sports Association (MSA) and the Motorsport Foundation, which generates funds for good causes to develop the UK motorsport industry and the sport.  Shenington held a special display of the Lets Go Karting £5 taster session equipment for kids and launched its own scheme of taster sessions for senior / adult drivers, which will cost £55 for three track sessions.

Shenington SuperPrix details: Results Page, Picture Gallery for the Historic Revival, celebrating Shenington KRC's 50th Anniversary on 18 - 20 June

Annual General Meeting: A disappointing turn-out for the AGM on 4th May 2010, the committee hopes that means all 300 members are very happy with the club management.  All members were sent the 2009 accounts summary.  The committee were re-elected plus Steve Weatherhead as a new committee member, and noted that Chris Smith resigned as a director in February.  Mike Coombs has been re-elected as Club Chairman, all other details at foot of this page.

Happy Christmas and best wishes for an excellent season in 2010:  The Winter Newsletter and all entry and membership forms have now been posted to all members.  If you don't receive them for any reason they can all be downloaded from this website.  You will notice that members practice fees and entry fees have had to be increased for the first time in four years, and even between 2005 and 2006 there was only a £2 hike in the entry fee.  This regrettable increase became inevitable what with the return to 17.5% VAT for 2010 and other supplier cost increases (to some extent the 15% saved us in 2009) and remember that all profits are ploughed back into the circuit.  For instance we have to save up funds for track re-surfacing and so on.  We think our fees still offer great value for money, especially the Winter 100 and the Super Prix entries.  So we hope having to fork out an extra £10 per weekend is not too much of a burden, and thank everyone for their support in 2009, and wish you all a great sporting 2010.

Awards Evening 2009:  The 2009 Awards and dinner was held at the Manor House Hotel in Moreton-in-Marsh on Saturday 30th January 2010 with a Venetian masked ball theme for the evening, along with a string quartet and free champagne on arrival.  A magician entertained the guests and later the casino opened, with all proceeds donated to the Oxfordshire Air Ambulance, with £305 raised.  For what is thought to be the first time ever, the secret vote for the Driver of the Year resulted in a tie between Junior TKM rivals Oliver Hodgson and Ashley Jones, who will share the trophy.  The MSA's Chief Executive Colin Hilton kindly handed out the trophies, and he was accompanied by his wife Barbara who received a bouquet from club chairman Mike Coombs, see picture to left. The Lady Driver of the Year award went to Jade Sheppard, and the Junior Clubman (someone who puts effort back into the club) was awarded to Travis Kirk.  The Most Promising awards went to Lee Harrison (Junior TKM), Matthew George (Junior Max), Guy Perry (MiniMax), Matthew Harris (TKM Exreme), Louis Wall (Gearbox), Alfie Brown (Cadet) and James Peace (Junior).  The class winners and Lady Driver of the Year are shown below.

The award winners	Drivers of the Year - O Hodgson / A Jones	The guests

LATE ARRIVALS:  Please do not come to the circuit on the day / evening before a practice day or championship, except up to 11 pm on Friday's before the club meetings.  Our landlord and the Gliding Club are getting fed up with vehicles trying to get in or parking in the area late at night.

PIT-SPACES: Could visitors to the club please respect the pit spaces that are booked for the year by the club members. If in doubt, look at the notice boards in the paddock to see which are occupied.  The owner of the pit-space always has precedence up to 0915 on Sunday morning.  Please note that if a pit bay holder is not using the pit bay for a race weekend, if they inform Track Manager Peter Cox the club will attempt to sell the space for £20 for the weekend and if sold, give a £10 discount voucher to be used against a test day in the future.  Vacant pit spaces can be pre-booked for a weekend at £20 by contacting Peter Cox on 07770 866006 or 01295 257674 (evening) and at reasonable times.

CCTV is in operation:  The club has invested in a CCTV system to aid the Clerk of the Course in judicial decisions on driving incidents.  There are a total of nine cameras (two in the paddock, up to seven on the track) in operation.

Shenington Kart Circuit also hosts the annual Shenington24 - a round of the British Pedal Car Championship, being held this year on 26/27 June.  For more information visit their website.

Pictures of the Historic Kart static display at the 2009 Shenington SuperPrix and Historic Revival meeting (20/21.06.09) are here

And the Video is below
 

KARTMANIA Show on 30/31 October at Ricoh Arena Coventry:  Infortunately Shenington will not be able to have a stand this year as it clashes with one of our meeting.
 

 

 

Lets Go Karting: Shenington has been selected for one of the club places on the MSA sponsored scheme to give youngsters a chance to try a race kart for the sum of only £5.  We were the first club in the country to start the sessions, with our inaugural session on Tuesday 17 June 2008.  The current sessions are shown below, generally a day in school holiday weeks and one Tuesday evening per month in the summer months.  If anyone would like to come along and help the committee volunteers please make contact with the secretary.  We have invested in two brand new Cadet karts fitted with Honda GX120 engines, a Comer S60, a full race prepared Project One Honda Cadet, another Honda Cadet, a CRG Bambino 'Puffo' kart (generously on loan from HRS Motortsport) and two MicroMax (generously gifted by JAG) on junior chassis for the older kids.  All racewear will be provided.  Please phone the secretary on 01926 812177 if you want to book in a driver for the next available trial (see below for dates).  Also for those who have already been on the Lets Go Karting day, we are offering a longer test, three sessions for £30, in the holidays, during the day,   in the afternoon.  Please phone 01295 257674 to book, but remember you must have been on an LGK day with us first.  We are planning to run the full circuit on Thursday 28th October at a cost of £80 for those that wish to progress, they will have to have done at least two of the previous junior practice days first.  The intention is to take youngsters from the initial taster session all the way up to their ARKS Test, which can be taken at the club.  We are also now taking prospective senior drivers who want to have a taster first, at a cost of£55 for 3 sessions, next session Thursday 28th October, call 01926 812177.

Lets Go Karting taster sessions at Shenington - phone Graham on 01926 812177 to book, longer sessions for those who have done Lets Go Karting phone Gill on 01295 257674 to book:

21st September evening Lets Go Karting £5 taster sessions (spaces available)
26th October - afternoon for Junior Practice now fully booked, spaces available in the morning call Gill on 01295 257674
28th October - full circuit full day sessions for Junior School, now fully booked.

To right, William Layton (26), one of the Lets Go Karter graduates now racing with us,
and below group picture taken on 13 April 2010

Video of a Lets Go Karting taster session and some Cadet Racing from Shenington in 2009, and below a picture of the club's start karting in the Sixties.
 

Go Motorsport: Shenington Kart Racing Club supports the MSA Go Motorsport scheme.

Below - two laps of Shenington at the May 2009 Super One meeting,
with Ricky Collard on his Cadet, courtesy racedata.org and Fusion team

 

WiFi Broadband Internet Access: As part of the continuing service to our customers / club members / drivers we have now made available WiFi access in the paddock.  It covers almost all of the B and C pits, and the some of the new field, but unfortunately isn't very strong in the A Pits.  We also have live timing available and the webcam(s).  Please do not abuse the facility with over-use (eg gaming) or we may have to put on password protection.  Just treat the free internet access with respect, thank-you.

Fire Extinguishers: Could all competitors please ensure they have a working fire extinguisher at the race meetings in accordance with regulations, minimum size 55B but better to be 70B minimum.  Also please acquaint yourselves with the nearest firepoint in the paddock where large fire extinguishers may be found.
If you have an awning, it is now recommended to have a minimum of a 2kg foam or powder, or two if more than one competitor.  Commercial teams should have a minimum of 2 x 6kg and the fire extinguishers should be kept at the entrance(s) to the awnings.

Video of the historic karts from a past SuperPrix from www.youtube.com

 

Please put your entries in ON TIME!  At a recent meeting there were 176 sent on time and 64 AFTER the closing date.  Remember we are allowed to charge £10 for late entries. 

Note to all commercial teams: Please remember that after 1st July all commercial awnings and team vehicles MUST display appropriate No Smoking signs as required by law.  Checks will be made

ROTAX MAX DD2: The club welcome DD2 at our test days but please note all DD2 karts must practice in the gearbox sessions.   Our insurance does not permit us to mix gearbox and direct-drive and because the MSA recognise DD2 as a gearbox category, they must therefore set their gearing for the long circuit and practise accordingly with 125 ICC etc.  IF there is sufficient demand we can consider a race as they are already referenced in our SRs.

Please note—reluctantly we can no longer accept used tyres. Too many people from all over were using our facility, not just club members. So it is exclusion for anyone dumping tyres at Sheni from now on.

We use the SuperSports ERS Tempus timing system so all meetings will sport the ERS+ results on www.karting.co.uk .  This should be of great benefit to the club members and guests, being able to bring up various statistics on www.karting.co.uk website.  Yet another update and improvement from your favourite club. Remember all profits are put back into the club facilities.

Please note the MSA Gold and Blue Book are available on the www.msauk.org website for download in pdf format.  If you do not have a licence and password, it is now possible to get a public access password.

Race Track and banks: Please note the club is now enforcing the rule that there is no access to the race track without official permission, even after racing or practising is finished. This is because of complaints from the glider club of children throwing stones over the banks onto the glider club runways and equipment. Please do not allow your children to go onto the race circuit at any time, no cycling, playing etc. Drivers may walk round the circuit before practise or racing.

Perimeter Gate: Please note that the outside gate is locked between 11 pm and 7 am on race weekends.  But there is an adjacent pedestrian gate to allow access or for emergencies.

Toilet & Shower opening times: Clubhouse toilets & shower will be closed between 2315 & 0715 but will not be open evenings of or prior to mid-week testing, although the old toilets will be.

Shenington Kart Racing Circuit is one of the more popular in the UK, and hosts events for all of the ABkC classes. Based around Shenington Airfield this circuit is strikingly flat and offers good viewing facilities for spectators accompanied by good facilities including toilets and the obligatory café. Karting tuition is offered by Protrain and Ziemelis Kart Schools. ARKS tests are also carried out by the club, contact Chris Smith (01608 737145). Useful information on Starting Karting.

Spectators are admitted at £5 per car.

Prokarting and karting for Groups is available with Zone Motorsport, Tel 07968 582807 or email: Zone MotorSport