ALEXANDER Burford-Fuller has secured his first win of the season after another successful weekend of karting.
The 13-year-old from Hutton had made a steady start to the campaign but moved up several gears in his latest outings.
First of all came the March round of the Club 2000 Championship, at Red Lodge in Suffolk.
He took a pole to flag win in the first qualifying heat, before a third and fifth in the other two qualifiers made sure he started the final in third place.
Burford-Fuller did not get off to a great start but was able to take advantage of a tangle between the front two on the second bend to nip through into the lead – a lead he would not relinquish with an excellent display of defensive driving.
He cut loose towards the end of the race and took the chequered flag by 2.5 seconds – and missed out on the track record for his class by just one tenth of a second.
The following day it was destination Hertfordshire as he took part in the second round of the Junior Rotax Championship at Rye House.
Despite facing a higher standard of driver than the previous day, he acquitted himself well and ended up with the top novice trophy – although he was left to wonder what might have been.
In the first qualifier he was involved in three separate incidents – each time being the innocent victim – and finished 11th, but he was sixth and fourth in the other two qualifiers to start seventh on the grid in the main race.
He made a great start and climbed to third, a position he held for five laps until a dive up the inside by another driver into hairpin one resulted in a spin for Burford-Fuller.
He did manage to rejoin the race in seventh, a position he held until the chequered flag to claim the top novice trophy, but there was disappointment he could not hold onto a higher position.
