Jordon Lennox-Lamb has been proving his versatility as a racer of late, by jumping out of his 80mph kart into a 1.4-litre closed-top Ginetta sportscar – and remaining right on the leading pace in both.
The young Bedford ace headed to the final two meetings on the Super 1 calendar – at Warden Law near Sunderland and Clay Pigeon in Dorset – bidding for a top three end-of-season championship placing, but his first British outing on the Top Kart chassis he races on the continent did not go entirely according to plan.
“We were very quick in practice on the Friday,” Jordon recounted, “but after that we suffered engine problems throughout the weekend. I would be really fast through the infield and catching everyone up, but then every time we got onto the straights there was nothing I could do. We were just scratching our heads and changing everything on the kart, but nothing made any difference.”
Twelfth spot in timed qualifying was converted into a brace of top ten finishes come the finals, but that was not what the former BRDC Stars of Tomorrow leading light had been looking for and, he admitted, it put him under considerably more pressure to get everything right at Clay Pigeon.
“We were very quick in the dry at Clay,” he continued, “but in the wet we had problems again and were struggling. All the big teams had people standing around at different points of the circuit seeing how wet or dry it was, but it was just me and my dad and I found it hard to make the right choices. We got it right in the first final, but we didn't have the European bumper on in the second final, and without that the kart really doesn't work.”
Still, fourth and seventh-placed finishes were nothing to be sniffed at under the circumstances, and on the back of that Jordon headed to Monte Carlo for the prestigious annual Monaco Kart Cup. On his first visit to the Principality, the KF3 front-runner did a recce of the tight and twisty circuit upon his arrival to get an idea of just what he would be up against.
