Northampton Karting League - NKL

Whilton Mill Go Karting and Outdoor activities are running Open Grand Prix’s on the first Monday of the month.

If you are interested... call the office and book in!

Open Grand Prix!!
-Monday 2nd March, 19:30pm Arrival
-£55.00 per person
-5 minute practice, 2 x 12 lap heats + 15 lap final
Call 01327 843822 to book!

We are now running this event the 1st Monday of every month, please see the link for future dates> https://whiltonmill.co.uk/open-events

Fancy some endurance karting? Whilton have got you covered! See the detail in the attached post

We still have team spaces left for Monday’s nights 90mins Endurance race! Information on the post below....

Call us on 01327843822 if you would like to get booked in!

**RE-ARRANGED** unfortunately Chris Thompson's charity race has had to be re-arranged, the event is now on the 12th May Whilton Mill Go Karting and Outdoor activities, now we know you're all keen to go racing so why not enter? he already has 12 teams so spaces are limited and a good race is guaranteed!

Chris is raising money for the "hope for children charity" and he will also be climbing Kilimanjaro in aid of the charity later this year in addition to this event!

So please show your support to Chris.

at Whilton Mill on the 31st of March! There are still spaces remaining if you wish to enter.

If you can't or you would like to donate, then please do text 'PLDT99 £5' to 70070 to donate £5 to this amazing cause!

The event will be LIVE streamed by Alpha Live for you all to watch too!

Karting communities bring us all together, lets do this for Paul.

If you wish to make a donation via the website, then please head to - www.justgiving.com/fundraising/pld2018

For any more information, please either speak with Dan Underhill or head to the event page on Facebook. Institute Of Cancer Research PLD2018

#PLD2018 - ICR The Institute of Cancer Research - PLDT99 £5 to 70070 In the autumn of 2011, a motorsport mad 37 year-old man from Staffordshire lost an 18 month battle with a rare form of Leukaemia. That man was Paul Lee-Davis...

Chris Thompson is hosting an open charity kart race at Whilton Mill Go Karting and Outdoor activities on 4th March, now we know you're all going to miss racing in the NKL this year so maybe this is the perfect event for you?

Chris is raising money for the "hope for children charity" and he will also be climbing Kilimanjaro in aid of the charity later this year in addition to this event!

So please show your support to Chris.

He Marangoned himself. Must’ve lost his focus.

https://www.facebook.com/ChaseSharpe65/videos/338193503325998/

Important Announcement
There will be no NKL Sprint Series in 2018, our future plans are explained below.

I know this will disappoint a lot of people and I guarantee you all it wasn’t easy for us to come to this decision, it has been obvious to everyone that this year for the NKL team, Luke, James, Tom, Ian and the Whilton Mill staff has been very difficult to manage.

We have made this decision based on a number of factors, one being Whilton Mill’s latest construction work, understandably with the construction of their new race control building, Whilton have decided their focus should be on this building, due for completion in June/July, as part of this shift in focus and to offset the costs slightly, they will not be getting new karts next year. Knowing how close the field is in the NKL and how competitive the competition is, we felt this decision would stop the event from being what everyone wants in 2018, not only that, with construction work potentially going past the half way point of our season we felt this would also have a negative impact on our series.

No doubt you will have all noticed the live stream that was born out of the NKL, now labelled Alpha Live, has gained a lot of momentum during 2017 and looking at 2018 the team will have a lot on their plate with this being their main focus to continue that momentum.

Most of all, we always want to put on the best events we possibly can and with the above noted we do not feel we will be able to regularly do so.

Now looking forwards, it has been agreed with Whilton Mill that they will hold an open event on the 1st Monday of every month from March through to October, so if you want to race at Whilton you will still be able to do so, Whilton will announce formats and costs in the new year, this will not be a championship series.

The NKL team are looking to organise a bank holiday “Fun” day in 2018 which will have sprint races and an endurance race during the day, we are currently looking at the late may bank holiday (28th May) If you would be interested in this event please say so below in the comments, we will get plans for this arranged in January.

Lastly, we will sit down at the end of 2018 and re-evaluate the situation. Assuming we feel we can put on events people will enjoy and or to high standard we will do so in 2019.

I hope you all understand the situation we are in, we have done what we can to make sure you can still race in 2018 and we hope you can all still enjoy your year.

We would just like to take this opportunity to wish you all a Merry Christmas and a Happy new year.

Well we're definitely looking forward to seeing this take shape over the next few months!

‪Here's a cheeky sneak peak into what's coming to very soon! ‬

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Team NKL are on track, in the official practice session for this weekends event held at Simply Race - Racing Simulator Venue in Milton Keynes

🚨ANNOUNCEMENT🚨

🚨NKL WINTER CUP🚨

With the 2017 season now at an end the NKL team have been busy and in discussions about plans for 2018, no rest for the wicked!

We are working on some big changes to our event to make it better than ever for the 2018 season. Our sixth season of sprint racing!
As you know we had to make some changes to the format for the first time in five seasons and that had a big impact on the series and organisers as a whole. With the sprint series being the main reason for the NKL we feel that 2018 deserves our full attention.

In order to make Season 6 of the NKL as good as we can possibly make it we have come to a decision as a team that this is where we need to focus all our efforts. With that in mind we feel it is no longer possible to hold the Winter Cup this year.

We are proud of the series we host and the standards we set ourselves and with the changes coming in 2018 we wouldn't be able to deliver an event that we could be truly proud of this year and we'd rather not run an event that falls below those standards. We are pushing each other forward to make 2018 our best year yet and it just wouldn't be right to divert our attention to the Winter Cup and let all we're working towards go to the back burner and have that suffer.

Hope you all understand, we think it's a shame but it's the right decision for us as organisers.

Thanks as always

The NKL Team