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16 Tuesday March 26 2019 Latest Christchurch news at www.star.kiwi Teen kart driver off to Europe CHRIST’S COLLEGE student Jacob Douglas will make a little bit of Kiwi karting history when he lines up at the first round of the FIA Karting Academy Trophy series in Germany in May. Although more and more New Zealand karters have been travelling to Europe to compete in recent years, Jacob, 13, is the first to be invited by the FIA Karting Academy to contest its annual trophy series. “It’s acknowledgement, if you like, from the very top people in our sport,” Jacob said KartSport New Zealand president Douglas Graeme Moore. “Drivers like Jacob are truly world class, and that by being able to produce drivers of his obvious calibre, the sport here must be in pretty good shape.” In spite of his age, Jacob is already a veteran of several trips to Europe to race. The two-time NZ Vortex Mini ROK champion led a four-strong New Zealand squad to its best finish yet at the annual ROK Cup International event in Italy in October last year. “It’s a big commitment, particularly for a 13-year-old, but it’s what Jacob wants to do so as a family we are right behind him,” BIG THINGS: Jacob Douglas (front) will become the first Kiwi to compete in the FIA Karting Academy Trophy Series. PHOTO: FAST COMPANY/UMBERTO FRAENKEL-SPORTINPHOTO said his father Craig Douglas. Having already proved he can foot it with the best young Vortex drivers in the world, Jacob says his goal is to establish himself in Europe and he believes that this year’s threeround series – in which up to 50 invited drivers use the same model of OTK kart – is just the stepping stone he needs. “I am really proud that Kartsport New Zealand is supporting me,” said Jacob. “It is a great series to introduce me to European junior racing and I am extremely excited to continue where I left off last year at the ROK Cup with Lennox Racing. I am looking forward to SPORT doing New Zealand proud and everybody who has helped take to where I am today. I am also fortunate that my KartSport New Zealand academy coach, Tiffany Hamilton, will be by my side to help guide me through the weekends when I am up there. Tiff has lots of European racing experience for me to draw on.” This year the series will be contested over three rounds, starting at Wackersdorf in Germany in early May, before heading to Italy for a second round in June, then the third and final in September. Each year for the past nine years, drivers representing what FIA characterises as “the best prospects between the ages of 12 and 14 from over 40 countries around the world” have battled it out in what effectively is a onemake kart/engine/tyre series, aimed at uncovering the next Lewis Hamilton. One former academy trophy series winner whose name will be familiar to fans is Toyota Racing Series race and round winner and 2018 series runnerup, Richard Verschoor, of the Netherlands, who won the academy trophy in 2014. In Brief NOR’WEST NEWS VOLLEYBALL CHAMPS St Andrew’s College won the Canterbury secondary school senior girls volleyball championships at Pioneer Stadium, defeating St Margaret’s College in the final. Burnside High School finished third. Meanwhile, the senior boys title was won by Riccarton High School, which defeated Shirley Boys’ High School in the final. BURNSIDE TENNIS TEEN Burnside High School tennis player Diego Quispe-Kim has been selected in the New Zealand team to play at the ITF World Junior Tennis competition in Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia, from April 1-6. The 13-year-old will team up with Jack Chapman and Alex Mirkov for the international team competition for players aged 14 and under. With more than 100 countries represented in the opening stages of the competition, the New Zealand team will look to book a spot at the world finals later in the year. SISTER SCHOOL RUGBY St Bede’s College’s sister-school Sapporo Yamanote from Japan borrowed several St Bede’s rugby players in order to play against an under-18 selection. Sapporo Yamanote won the match. However, given the fact that more than half of the 11 tries scored were by St Bede’s players, both schools won in one way or another.
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