HRS will continue to provide technical assistance to non-race team customers and look after the general interests of CRG, and Nigel Horner from HRS will also continue to tune Rotax engines from their workshop in South Shields.

M & P, Europe’s largest motorcycle parts and accessories company, will market and sell the CRG karts and spares from Swansea, Wales and online, which will make it much easier for customers to buy spares.

Tim Parrott Motorsport has brought the CRG truck from HRS and will operate the team from it in the Super One, Euromax, 0 Plate, GP plate and selected club races thoughout the year.

Tim Parrott Motorsport’s first race weekend as the CRG race team was a successful one, taking a win in Senior Rotax with Matt Mason, and also the fastest lap in the Junior catergory with Charlie Streather.

Jason Parrott, team manager of Tim Parrott Motorsport, said “It was a great first weekend for the team and the new drivers, Matt Mason drove a great race and won in Seniors, in Juniors Charlie Streather showed his natural speed when he took the win in Heat 1 but unfortunately got too impatient in Heat 2 and made a costly mistake, and even though he crashed in the final he yet again showed he was capable of doing a fast time. Also in Juniors was Dom Wheatley, who had an unfortunate weekend and found himself in the B final, where again he was involved in a crash which demoted him to last but he made a strong recovery. Dom will be a good driver, it is just a case of finding the time when it all comes together.”

“On the whole it was a very good weekend, even though we only had one win I was extremely impressed by the speed of the kart and I am looking forward to the next race, which is the Winter Cup in Malaga, Spain.”

The full list of drivers is:
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• Brian Parias

Senior Max

• Ed Brand
• Matt Mason

Junior Max

• Charlie Streather
• Dominic Wheatley
• Josh Collins
• Ashley Marshall

Minimax

• Hugo Altendorf

Cadet

• Jacques Lambert

“I’m sure I will struggle to stay out of the kart though especially when I’m away testing with the team!”

Jason is a race winner in international Super KF and brings a unique level of racing success and experience to the team, who won the Senior Max O Plate in 2009 with Matt Mason.

“I think me being involved 100% will result in more success for the team, because I will have more time and will be devoted to developing the equipment, and also more importantly have time to spend with the drivers trying to pass on some of my experience. TPM will have the only team manager with this amount of recent experience driving up-to-date karts at the highest international level.”

For your opportunity to be part of the team in 2010 visit timparrottmotorsport.com.

In addition, the team is selling their transporter to make room for new vehicles – more details are available at timparrottmotorsport.com/2010/team-transporter/

He started 20th for the A Final and made his way up to 11th but then dropped back due to his inexperience at the end, but nevertheless a brilliant result considering it is only his 3rd race off his novice plates.

Matt Mason in Senior Max had a difficult start to his weekend in the first heat, struggling to get to grips with his new kart, but then showed his pace and potential in the second heat.
Matt started P10 for the Final and despite going off at the start, made a extremely strong recovery to 3rd place but was gaining on the top 2 until the race was cut short due to lighting!

In Rotax 177 Brian Parias was out in front by a few seconds in his wet first heat before being taken off by a backmarker, then the second heat in the dry was a close race, but after a bad start he could only manage 4th.

For the Final, Brian made a fantastic start, and took the lead early on, but found it hard keeping it and dropped back to finish 2nd but questioned the first-placed drivers clutch!

He didn’t have the smoothest of paths through the heats, but was a frontrunner in two of them, didn’t finish another when his chain came off at the start, and was fast but stuck in traffic in the other.

This gave him 8th on the grid for the Final, and Matt quickly moved up to join the leading group. He took third when the leaders, Joe Reilly and John Stewart made contact and he was well placed to follow Jack Whelan through into second when he took the lead.

Less than a lap later, Matt took the lead at Wilkins and from lap 14 on had to defend for the rest of the race. Stewart had now recovered from his early race mishap and Matt pulled out a small margin of safety while he fought for second place. However, Stewart was soon back to challenge for the lead.

On the last lap, there was a long trail of karts behind him and at the hairpin Matt stayed ahead with hard braking and tight lines. He was pushed wide at one point, but just managed to hold on to the lead and stayed in front to win the race.

“I’d like to thank Tim Parrott Motorsport, especially Tim, ‘Big Al’ McKay, and my mechanic Tom Arme. It was my first time winning with Tom as my mechanic so he deserves a lot of credit for the result. Thanks also go to Steve Ogden who prepared me a great engine, and my parents for supporting me and giving me the opportunity to race in the first place.”