Bushy Park hosts start of BKA’s 40th season

The Barbados Karting Association (BKA) embarks on its 40th year of providing the first rung on the circuit racing ladder this weekend. Scheduled for a 9.00 am start, Sunday’s (February 22) UpBeat Wholesale Raceday at Bushy Park Barbados is the first of eight rounds scheduled for the 2026 Sectus Technologies Championship.

  Since Derek Roach won the 1987 title in the Plantation Yard of what is now Haymans Market, St Peter, there have been 20 BKA Champion Drivers, the most high-profile being Zane Maloney, back-to-back winner in 2011 and ‘12. FIA Rookie of the Year in 2022 and now a professional racing driver in the ABB Formula E World Championship, Zane has often acknowledged the importance in his career of his early experience with the BKA.

  Reigning Champion Driver Calem Maloney, Zane’s younger brother, won the second of his two titles in 2025, one of a number of multiple winners. Among those are Roger Mayers (1995-’97) and Dane Skeete (2005/06), who both went on to win Rally Barbados and remain at the forefront of island motor sport.

  Also still in the limelight, the 2025 Barbados Rally Club (BRC) Autocross Champion Geoff Ullyett won four consecutive BKA titles between 1991 and 1994, as the Club transitioned through a temporary home at Sheraton to Old Bushy Park. And he shares a rare double with son Daniel, three-time BKA Champion Driver (2020-21 & ‘23), also the BRC Motoring News Rookie and Junior Autocross Champion last year.

  This year’s Sectus Technologies Championship will be fought out between now and November, with four races each day following Practice and Qualifying. Calem Maloney claimed his fourth straight Easykart 125cc class title in 2025, while the 100cc Juniors Champion was Aeden Bruce.

  The Easykart 60cc Cadets class was won by just one point – the closest margin in the Club’s history – by Jaydn Brathwaite from Jordyn Hinkson after a season in which more newcomers joined the class than since 2017. It also produced the first winner of the BKA’s new Highest-placed Female Karter award in Ava Mayers.

Sectus Technologies Barbados Karting Association (BKA) Championship qualifying rounds: February 22, March 22, April 26, June 14, July 19, September 20, October 18, November 15 (spare date: December 6)

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