Karting juniors head for Nations Cup at Bushy Park

Rising young stars from regional karting clubs will converge on Bushy Park Barbados next month for the Barbados Motoring Federation (BMF) OK-J Development Series Nations Cup. The three-day meeting, organised by the Barbados Karting Association (BKA), will run from Friday to Sunday, August 15-17.

  The competition will be run to the same rules as the Caribbean Junior Karting Academy Trophy (CJKAT), which ran for three years, hosting more than 30 young karters from Barbados, Guyana, Jamaica and Trinidad and Tobago. Participants, aged between 11 and 16 years, will race the same identical Vortex-engined Exprit OK-Junior karts used in that series and owned by the BMF.

  Barbadian Adam Mallalieu won the first CJKAT season at Bushy Park in 2019, since when he has made a big impression with a Ford Fiesta R5 in the BMF-administered Barbados Rally2 Championship; after the series was interrupted by the pandemic, Calem Maloney won in 2022, also at home, while T&T’s Naomi Garcia was the most recent champion, at the Palisadoes Raceway in Jamaica in 2023, having also finished as the highest-placed competitor aged 14 and under in Barbados the year before.

  Each Nations Cup driver will select a kart on the Friday (August 15), followed by two hours of practice. There will be further practice, qualifying and four races on each of Saturday and Sunday, those on the second day running alongside the fourth round of the BKA’s 2025 Sectus Technologies Championship.

  The FIA-affiliated governing bodies of Antigua, the Bahamas, the Cayman Islands, the Dominican Republic, Guyana, Jamaica and T&T have been invited to send competitors. An official entry list will be issued closer to the competition.

 

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For further information:

please contact BMF Vice-President – Sport, David Williams - e-mail: vicepresident@bmf-fia.com

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