Karting Photography

I kept you informed while I was working on it but may have forgotten to tell you that my guidebook about the Angkor Temples was published 6 months ago and the reception is quite good, which is a real pleasure.

If you would like a copy you can find it at the AsiaBooks shops if you live in Thailand.

If you are not in Thailand check the website www.angkortemplestheguidebook.com  and order it through the Paypal process.

See you later in the season I hope.

Argentinian Franco Cerezo sent us the data for his driver profile and with it this beautiful picture. Thank you Franco.

On three wheels is rather common. On two wheels is (almost) normal at Clark base after the straight. Presley (on one wheel) wins the contest.

01/15 

   

Just before Round 4 at Clark Base a picture of each junior racer at Sentul

01/23 

   

Christmas is coming, a picture of each racer!

01/22 

   

The Angkor guidebook is printed and available for distribution so it's time to revive KartingPhotography. The Indonesian round was dominated by Indonesian drivers, more to come in the next few days.

1/6 

   

The KartingPhotography report on the AKOC Macau meeting has been published in VROOM. Five pages at the centre of the publication to celebrate your racing exploits. See inside...

And now that the Angkor book is at last

printed (it was done on August 1 and this

is why I did not go to Carmona) I have to

finish the Macau Junior and Mini Rok articles

on KartingPhography. No more excuses. 

Presley came to Bira last weekend to race

in the Thai National Championship and to

remind me that I was late again!                                    (3000 copies, this pile represents 1 tenth of the book)

Sometimes a bit of luck is needed to make a (great? At least unusual) picture. I was covering Pasin's races last weekend at Sentul when this impressive lizard decided to cross the track. Not an everyday scene!

The favourite for the final was Darma who had got pole in time trials, won the 3 heats and the pre final. But a crash 2 laps into the final ruined his chances. Then Daim, racing for the first time in Junior, crossed the finish line in first position, followed by Sasakorn. But Daim was disqualified for a mere 500 grams and Sasakorn got a 3 second penalty. Then the winner was Arjun Maini who was joining AKOC for the first time! You will soon read more on Arjuna, the hero of the Mahabharata epic, in our Angkor guidebook, but this is another story...

Nicolaj Moller Madsen won the pre final and final but could not get points in the AKOC championship, the same applying to Alfredo Gagliardi who came second in the final. The winner of both AKOC races at Macau was therefore young veteran Zahir Ali. Two of the drivers on the picture, Weiron and Andrew... 

It has been 6 months since the last article published by KartingPhotography. No 2011 news and worse, Presley is still waiting for the article on the 2010 Indonesian round!

The culprit? Our Angkor guidebook which took so long to complete and proof read. But it is now with the printer and we will now have more time to devote to karting.

To find more on the guidebook... read more...

And keep posted, the light was good at Macau last weekend and the pictures reflect it. 

Even with 4 pages VROOM could not publish all the pics we submitted. As a consolation prize the pictures which did not appear in the Macau article.

1/7 

   

What can possibly be a better start of the year for a website devoted to karting than 9 pages in VROOM? This is what we got in the January issue. Last year we could not devote as much time as we would have liked to karting but yet, we are happy to have continued contributing to increase the exposure of Asian karting on the international scene, thanks to VROOM and to AKOC. Which means a lot of work in 2011 to keep up the pace...

We are back from 3 weeks in very cold France and wish to present our (belated) best wishes for the New Year to all karters from Asia and elsewhere. Belated because our laptop did not like the change of weather and seized upon arrival in Europe. Judging from the noise emitted by the hard disk it looks like we will have to change the piston... This explains why we could not update kartingphotography during the trip as we intended. All the Macau pictures were trapped inside a laptop that would not even open Windows. So keep posted, the Junior and Senior races pictures should be published soon now!

And we have the pictures to prove it. After a heated season Maximilian won the Mini Rok championship and managed to remain friend with Vice-Champion James...