#27 James Hadley

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After two and a half months off karting, James Hadley came back strong with a 46 lap enduro race win.

The enduro meeting was held in mixed conditions at the Lascom Raceway in Kaitoke, Wellington. There was two heats after a short tuning run before the enduro. James raced well in the first two heats to record two wins. In the first heat James was 1.2 seconds faster than anyone else in wet conditons and in the second heat he was 7-tenths faster. After the two heats it was on to the Enduro race. This race would be 30minutes long with every driver having to make one pitsop and one wheel change. James started off grid two and was quickly into the lead. He opened up a small lead before heading into the pits early for his stop. Hadley Motorsport had a fantastic pit stop and James was soon back onto the race track. James raced hard for the rest of the 30minutes and managed to complete 46 laps to win by 33seconds.

James was very pleased with the days result and was glad to finally be back in the kart. Hadley Motorsport would like to thank everyone who helped during the pitsop and the rest of the day.

James would personally like to thank Lascom Motorsport for the fantastic Intrepid chassis and for all their support during the day. James would also like to thank the rest of his suporters, BNT Automotive, Chemz, Red Line Oil and North City Cars & Commericals for all their support throughout his karting career.

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The New Zealand Sprint Championship for 2008 were held over easter weekend. The Blenhiem Kart Club hosted the event in perfect sunny weather. Hadley Motorsport had three drivers racing this year. These drivers were James Hadley,  Phill Watkins and Grant Bristow.

James raced two classes over the weekend, Junior Yamaha and Formula Junior. After qualifing badly in both classes, James had a lot of work to do. In Yamaha he slowly moved through the feild during the day to start the final sixth. After 5 red flags and a twenty-five minute wait during the race, James managed to finish in 5th place. On the Sunday in Formula Junior James had a lot of work to do again. He didn’t make it any easier for himself by running with the only Rotax engine in the feild. James fought hard all day and after starting 11th in the final he managed to record a 6th place overall. James was disapointed not to walk away with any titles from this years championship but he was still pleased with the end result.

Phil Watkins also choosed to race two classes and was very fast in both. He fought extremely hard in Yamaha Lights to finish in 6th place. In Formula 100 Phil was very quick. He drove well all weekend and managed to finish in a fantastic 2nd place.

Grant Bristow only entered in Yamaha Heavies but made the most of it and qualified in sixth position. he had some bad luck during the race day but still managed to finished in 14th place.

Hadley Motorsport would like to thank evryone for their support over the weekend. James would personally like to thank everyone at Lascom Motorport for giving James the use of two fantastic Intrepid Cruiser Chassis for him to race two classes. Also all of his other supporters, BNT Automotive, Chemz NZ and Red Line Oil. Maurice Frost and Surpreme Engines for all his help before and during the weekend. All of the Hadley Motorsport Team for their support and Wayne and Jamie McNee for lending their Junior Rotax Max Engine for the weekend.  

The Wellington Club Champs were held in C.I.K format over the past weekend.

James Hadley had a good day finishing 2nd after alot of good battles throughout the day.

Stephen Taylor also battled hard through the day to record 2nd in the Junior Restricted Class.

Finally Paul Campbell had an extremely good result also finishing 2nd in the Rotax heavy Class.  Paul pushed hard through the day and was very happy with his well earned 2nd.

Hadley Motorsport would like to thank all their sponsors and Kartsport Wellington for a well run meeting. 

Goldstar Round 3 Taranaki

The Hadley Motorsport Team went to Taranaki still disapointed about the weekend before. James went into the third round with a four point lead in the goldstar series and equal lead in the grand prix series. James drove hard all day and and had very good race results. James also bet the previous lap record for the Junior Yamaha Class by a huge 8 tenths of a second. He finished the day 2nd after a DNF cost him. He also won the Grand Prix 15 Lap race.

James now leads the Goldstar series by two points and the grand prix series by one point. James would like to thank all the Hadley Motorsport Team and all his sponsors for all their support, 

James went out on saturday not to confident after a bad couple of practice days. Over night the Hadley Motorsport Team made a few changes and James was the quickest driver in the tuning run. In the first time trial james went out and pushed hard to record the 6th fastest lap.  James went out in the second time trial to try and improve his time however his airbox fell off meanning he had to come into the pits.

In heat one James started 6th and didnt push to hard to record a 5th place finish. In the second heat James pushed hard and with a lap to go was sitting 5th. He pushed even harder and mangaed to pass two more karts to finish 3rd. For the third heat Hadley stayed out of trouble and finished 3rd again.

Hadley started the pre-final in fourth spot. He pushed hard the whole race and managed to finished 3rd.

In the final Hadley started 3rd and drove hard. He even lead four laps and with six laps to go was in 2nd place waiting for the opportunity to pass. Coming around the first corner with six laps to go Hadley’s kart started strugling and cutting out. He managed to get round the next corner before the kart died and hadley was forced to the infield.

When James finally got back to the pits the team found that the end of the fuel filter had broken off. Its was and extremely unlucky ending to a fantastic weekend.

James would just like to thank all of the Hadley Motorsport Team for their support before and throughout the meeting. Also James would like to thank his sponsors: Lascom Motorsport, BNT Automotive, North City Cars and Commercials, Red Line Oil, Chemz NZ and Powder Surfaces Ltd.

James only had one reason for racing club day and that was to get more running on his engine but the day ended up quite interesting.

In the first race Hadley started on grid two and quickly got to the lead to win the race by over seven seconds. In heat two Hadley started on pole and lead to the flag to win by over two seconds. In the next race James started on grid five and was quickly fighting for the lead. Just after turn one on the fourth lap Hadley had an incident with another driver and finished the race in 2nd. He was later relegated to fifth. The fourth heat Hadley started on grid four and straight away got to the lead. He stayed in front to win by 2.972 seconds. For the final James started on pole and after a great battle with Kurt Mildenhall, he finished a close second which was enough to take the overall win.

James also managed to start himself in every race which made his dads back alot lest sore. Overall it was a good race day with fantastic weather.

Saturday practice day was beautiful weather but it rain heavely on race day.

Heat one saw James start on grid five and after the first lap was up to third. He then moved into second spot and stayed there for a couple of laps before taking the lead and finishing the race in first.

In heat two James started ninth and quickly moved through the feild to finish second.

In the next two heats James started on grids six and four and managed to get to the front to win both races. With the meeting already won for Hadley he started the final on pole and lead the whole race to take his fourth win for the weekend.

In the grand prix James started seventh and quickly got to the lead. he pulled away from the chasing drivers to win the extremely wet race by 3.470 seconds.

The Hadley Motorsport team was extremely happy with the weekend as fellow team driver Stephen Taylor also won both the Junior Restricted class and the Grand Prix.

James would like to thank everyone who helped him throughout the weekend.

Photographs by Alzart.co.nz

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