Double runner-up results put Chamberlain on top in UK KF2

Hot on the heels of his fourth place in Belgium last weekend, Jordan Chamberlain consolidated his lead in the KF2 Super One with two second places at Rowrah in the Lake District.

The weekend started reasonably well in timed practice when Jordan qualified fifth overall, then in the heats he finished second and third.

So for the first race of the double-header, Jordan started second on the grid and snatched the lead away from main championship rival Michael Simpson. The marginally faster Simpson took it back again a few laps later and Jordan hung on to finish just six tenths behind him.

The second race looked like going the same way, with Jordan leading initially then slipping behind Simpson, but this time the Welshman was the faster of the two and by mid race he was gaining on Simpson by a tenth on each lap. Unfortunately a move best described as “optimistic” from the driver behind lost Jordan three tenths on Simpson and there were now not enough laps left to get close enough to challenge for the lead.

He set the fastest lap, a definite achievement in the highly competitive KF2 (“Kart Formula 2”) class, where Jordan is one of the lower budget drivers on the grid.

At half-distance in the season, Jordan leads the championship by 12 points, but Simpson has now won four races on the trot so Jordan is looking for that elusive first 2008 win. But according to his father and mechanic Andrew, it shouldn’t be long in coming: “He didn’t put a foot wrong all weekend, the kart was excellent, and a win now will be just the thing to keep his confidence up.”

Jordan will race next at the Western European Championship Qualifier in Spain on July 13th, where he will compete for one of 25 places in the European Final against the best drivers from the UK, Ireland, France and Spain. The race is taking place on a new track at Alcaniz in Aragon so Jordan will travel out the week before to gather testing data.

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