JDR Karting Race Team

Richard Gittings owner of JDR Karting - Starts the 2016 season off with a flying start. The first round of the Monoposto Championship @ Oulton Park saw Richard Qualify 3rd just behind the bigger class Dallara 1400cc Hyabusa powered cars but pole for the 1000cc class, which Richard is in using a 1000cc Suzuki powered Suzuki engined Jedi kindly provided by Ian of HS motorsport. Special thanks to Romero Insurance specialists in adventure activities and motorsport for their generous ongoing Sponsorship support.

During the morning practice which was very wet Richard was 4 seconds faster than anyone. Race 1 had several restarts and was abandoned due to lack of time. Richard managed to get to the front each time due to great starts. Race 2 - Richard managed to take the lead and hold onto outright 1st place for 6 laps when the Dallara of Jeremy Timms passed but this was a hard fought battle between Jeremy and Richard providing great action for Spectators. Richard finished 1st in class and also set a new class lap record.

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Round 2 was at Cadwell Park and the weather just held off making a dry meeting. Richard qualified 2nd for both races just 0.1 second off pole behind the formidable Dallara. After a great start in race 1 Richard took the lead but near the end he got boxed in by a back marker and Jeremy Timms managed to make an excellent pass, but then broke a chain and Richard finished 1st overall and another class win. Race 2 saw Jonathan Reed make a blistering start pulling along side Richard on turn 1 but Richard managed to hold on to the lead and pull away wining by 36 seconds. He also took a new lap record on lap 2. Richard is now the championship leader with maximum points.

Richard also featured in a very complimenting article in Autosport magazine.

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Craig Hurran - JDR Karting Team Mate suffered from some teething problems with his new car for this season but managed a mighty fine 3rd place at Oulton Park on his first shake down since fully rebuilding the car. Caldwell park resulted in 4th place for race 1 just missing out on the podium. Race 2 resulted in a DNF due to a puncture on lap 1.

Craig was very dominant at Round 3 @ Brands Hatch taking 2 class wins. Richard Gittings was not at Brands which has resulted in his championship lead having been eroded and thus demoting him to 3rd place in the championship. Brands Hatch was filmed and you can see it here

JDR Karting Racing Team | Brands Hatch 2015

Brands Hatch Monoposto Championship 2015

The JDR Karting Team drivers locked out the second row of the grid after qualifying very well on Saturday at the Lotus Festival. Huge crowds and support races filled the whole weekend.

On Saturday Richard made a great start and went into 2nd place where he remained for several laps only to be overtaken near the end of the race by more powerful 1400cc Hyabusa engined F3 Dallara's of Jeremy Timms and Marc Fortune.

Craig Hurran finished a fine 5th place in his 1000cc Suzuki powered Jedi.

Sunday provided an excellent day of close racing. Richard suffered traffic in qualifying and only managed 5th on the grid however managed to get a better race set up for the race. Craig had a few problems in qualifying being held up in traffic with a large 36 car grid and only managed 10th on the grid.

Richard made a fantastic start and went from 5th almost in to first place by the first corner but had to brake to avoid pole sitter Jeremy Timms as he moved across to block causing Richard to narrowly avoid colliding with the tyres.

As the cars went through Paddock Hill bend Jeremy spun in front of James McLaughlin and Richard Gittings but both managed to avoid colliding with him. James and Richard had an epic battle throughout the race and changed positions on a few occasions. Later on the two 1400cc Hyabusa powered Dallaras passed Richard and James down the straights. Richard finished 0.7s behind James over the finish line. Richard had the fastest lap of the race for a 1000cc car just 0.05s off the lap record which he set last year.

Craig Hurran managed to bring his car over the finish line in a fine 7th place.