(http://www.bordermail.com.au/story/1426609/teen-sprints-to-title/?cs=12)
IT was only a matter of time before Albury karter Jordan Boys added a national trophy to his growing collection of club and state silverware.
The teenager achieved a career-best result at the 51st Annual Sprint Kart Championship Titles in Monarto, South Australia, over the Easter long weekend by being crowned the Australian Junior National Heavy Champion for 2013.
Boys dominated the event, taking out the title of fastest qualifier in the Junior National Heavy Class with a time three-tenths faster than the rest of the field, as well as the event victory.
The results have been building for Boys this year, the Albury-Wodonga Kart Club member finishing third in both classes he contested at the Victorian Open Sprint Kart Titles earlier in March — Junior National Heavy and the junior Rotax class (the more powerful of the two).
Boys also placed on the podium in the most recent round of the Rotax Max Challenge Pro Tour event in Lithgow at the beginning of last month, a result that has seen him climb to fourth in the Rotax championship rankings and closer to that all important ticket to compete in the World Rotax Finals in New Orleans later this year.
This is a goal Boys is hoping to achieve this year in his final junior year in karting.
He was also a finalist in the Norske Skog Sporting Young Achiever awards.
“I feel really proud to be recognised as a Young Achiever and to have realised my goal of winning a national title,” Boys said.
“It is something we as a family have been working so hard to achieve. My dad (Peter) has put in countless hours working on the karts, with set-ups and preparation, hours and hours behind the wheel of our trusty four-wheel-drive towing my brother Cameron and I with our gear to many meetings, all over Australia.
“We drove all the way to Darwin last year for the Nationals, but I was unlucky to have been taken out of the lead just before the line.
“My aim from now on is to hopefully find support to allow me to progress to the Formula Ford competition.”
The young karter is thankful for the support he is getting, especially from family and friends, Clint and Peter Cathcart from CC Racing and everyone in the extended CC Racing family, including Full Tilt Karting, Praga Karts, Arrow Karts, Revolution Race Gear, Bell Helmets, Antech Screenprinting and Kartequip Albury.
