T-Jay takes the Chequered Flag at Larkhall Super 1 British Championships Round 2



Top Spot for T-Jay - Trevyn is now sitting 3rd in the Championship

The Trevolution Rocked the Rowrah circuit this weekend as The Cadet British Championships arrived at the fantastic Cumbria Circuit for the 1st & 2nd Rounds of Formula Kart Stars.

T-Jay and his Team arrived at Rowrah on the Thursday evening; everyone was looking forward to a successful weekend.

Friday Practice: T-Jay was on the pace and all was looking, good including his Terry Bradley designed ZIP Storm.  The Team spent most of the Day testing engines & Gearing.  T-Jay was looking GOOD!

Saturday Morning Race Day: It had been raining the night before and there was still the slight feeling of rain in the air.

Qualifying: We new it was going to be brand new wets for the qualifying however, going out on the right pressures was a big decision and going out on the wrong pressures could wreck the tyres for later if it did rain.  We made are decision and qualified 8^th not good, but at least we new T-Jay could easily come through the pack,  but more importantly, our wet tyres were in perfect condition if it did rain.

Saturday Heat 1: T-Jay started 8^th on the grid but going into turn one got tagged on the back corner and was spun round facing the wrong way. He quickly got going and made his way from 22^nd right back to 5^th, only to be hit at the Stewart esses by number 45 knocking us back again to 17^th to eventually finish in 12^th place. (T-Jay was not a happy camper).

Saturday Heat 2: T-Jay started 7^th on the grid and by the second hairpin was in third place.  After another 2 laps T-Jay was leading the race with number 5 pushing him from the back.  The two karts managed to break away from the chasing pack and on the last lap going into the Stewart esses for the last time,  the number 5 kart took the lead but that was only to be for a short time, as in the second but last corner the number 5 kart left the door open slightly, only for T-Jay to stick it up the inside running him wide on the exit. T-Jay went on to take the Flag. Great win!

Saturday Final: T-Jay started 8^th and didn’t get a great start and went back to 10^th however, with  T-Jay’s  determination he was quickly making his way through the pack and on lap 14 was in 3^rd position.  T-jay was now part of a 3 kart train pushing to catch the front 2 karts and taking more than a half a second a lap out of them, but we were running out of laps and on the last lap and the last corner T-Jay went to defensive and got caught out on the exit only to loose 2 places over the line. Still a good result with good points T-Jay finished 5^th.

Sunday Morning Race Day: There had been a bit of rain however things were looking bright and the track was drying.

Qualifying: T-Jay was in the first qualifying group and qualified second in his group.  After the second group went out on the drying circuit the qualifying times were slightly better putting us back to fifth. After qualifying we found a problem with the kart which just took the edge of the handling but we immediately fixed it for the first heat.

Sunday Heat 1: T-Jay started the race on grid five and by lap seven he was in the lead. T-Jay went on to take the chequered flag by more than 1.5 seconds in front of the chasing pack. Great Race and well deserved WIN!

Sunday Heat 2: T-Jay again gridded 5^th and after lap three had taken the lead. Trevyn then went on to pull away at the front and then! Disaster had struck on lap eight. The throttle cable on T-Jays kart had snapped and the race was over! DNF

Sunday Final: After a disappointing second heat T-Jay had put the race behind him and his only focus was to get to the front as quickly as possible before the leaders got a break.  Even starting 18^th on the grid his only focus was on winning.

Race on T-jay was on a mission!  After the first lap T-Jay had made up nine places and with lap after lap of consistent lap times he kept picking away at the front runners until lap ten when T-jay took the lead.

Tom Harvey from Fusion Motorsport then tucked in behind him and together they pulled a massive gap from the now fighting and chasing pack.

What a fantastic race to watch and on the last lap coming into the Stewart esses for the last time T-Jay didn’t defend as he now thought he had a big enough gap between him and Tom.  Tom launched up the inside and took the lead great move, Tom then defended for the rest of the lap T-Jay finished 2^nd 9/100 of a second behind Tom going over the line.  A fantastic finale to an up and down weekend but some great points in the bag!

Trevyn would like to thank everyone involved with Trevyn Jay Nelson Racing Ltd including all the Sponsers, Wayne from Choice Engines . and also a Special thanks to Chris Underhill From CSU Developments.

T-Jay crossing the finish line in 1st position in the 1st heat in his Terry Bradley designed ZIP KART.

Trevyn up for the win on his New " Bradley " designed ZIP KART 

Friday Testing  Started well until we tried 1 of are race engines, Which we wasted 3 sessions chasing various differents things with the Kart only to find that the engine came back from the tuner rubbish!.

We put another test motor on & Bang! we were on the pace with at least 3 tenths in the bag with our Race Motor.

Saturday Qualifying  T-Jay qualified 2nd in his group which was ok but we new we had more to come from the Kart.

Heat 1   Good Race  Trevyn finished 4th

Heat 2  T-Jay Finished 5th

These 2 finished put Trevyn 7th on the grid for the A Finals

Pre Final   Trevyn struggled with the Kart as it went of on lap 6 and limped home in 8th

Grand Final  The Team made a couple of changes to the Kart but unfortunately went the wrong way with the tyre pressures, T-Jay battled on to bring the Kart home in 5th place with a fantasic move on the last corner.

All in all Trevyn banked some good points for the championship and as a Team we know had Friday testing went according to our schedule,  we would have easily had a podium. T-Jay is now looking forward to Round 2 at Larkhall in Scotland.

Trevyn is very pleased to announce that he will be working closely with Terry Bradley, Contemporary Artist from Northern Ireland throughout the coming year, helping to develop the T-Jay Nelson Brand. 
Watch out for Terry´s famous Art & Design work on T-Jay´s Racing equipment throughout the
Championships.
Please have a look at Terry Bradley´s website and enjoy some of his amazing work.

http://www.terrybradley.com



Click here to View a complete list of Trevyn´s Sponsors. 

http://www.trevynjaynelson.com/index.php?option=com_content&view=article&id=95&Itemid=39

T-Jay would like to wish everyone a Merry Chrismas & A Happy New Year.

Lets all have a Great 2010.