SUNDAY NOTEBOOK FROM THE NEW SOUTH WALES CHAMPIONSHIPS

50th running of the NSW Championships
This weekend’s New South Wales State Championships was the 50th running of the event.

The first NSW State Championships was held at the Caringbar circuit on January 26, 1961 – only a few months after the first ever championship was held at the Caringbar track in November, which will be celebrated at Eastern Creek later this year.

Jim “just in the area” Morton
Former Tony Kart Australia boss Jim Morton was an interested spectator at the final day of action in the New South Wales State Championships in Tamworth today.

Morton, who is now semi-retired and living on the Sunshine Coast, was on his way to Bathurst for next weekend’s Supercheap Auto Bathurst 1000 and thought he’d drop in to the circuit to check out the action.

The last time Tamworth hosted a major event to this weekend’s calibre was in 1994 when two of Morton’s drivers Ben Savage and James Courtney took out the Clubman Light and Junior Clubman titles.

Home State reigns supreme in title honours
It is no surprise to see that the home state of New South Wales dominated the winner’s list with seven victories given their huge percentage of entries at this weekends event.

Victorian and Queensland drivers were the next best with three victories a piece and Todd Hazelwood flew the South Australian flag high with his victory in Junior National Heavy.

Small club….great job
While the Tamworth Kart Racing Club may only have 67 members, and only a handful of competitors racing, President Tom Sanderson, Secretary Cathy Patterson and their team have done a great job handling the pressure of a state championship this weekend.