24 HOUR KARTING PEOPLE
As the years pass, the chances of you appearing at Le Mans lessen. But as Jayson Fong finds out, the buzz of endurance racing can be tasted at a kart track in Kent...
Left: a busy grid before the 2.30pm start
Team Deneros, from left: Richard Neale, Jack Etheridge, Lauren Butler (team manager), William Mount, Toby Tozer, Joshua Neale and Alan Mount:
Thirty minutes in a kart is usually enough to leave most drivers feeling physically battered, so when my next-door neighbour William mentioned he was taking part in a 24-hour race featuring multiple 90-minute stints, I thought he was mad. But a few weeks later I found myself embedded with Team Deneros at Buckmore Park in Chatham, Kent, eager to see how its first attempt at the race would unfold.