Blackett narrows gap to Norris in BKA title fight

After a hyper-competitive round of the 2026 Sectus Technologies Barbados Karting Association (BKA) Championship at Bushy Park on Sunday (June 14), Aaron Blackett has again moved closer to points leader Edward Norris in the Champion Driver title chase; Norris has 369 points and Blackett 357, with Jacob Mayers third on 346.

  Top scorer in Easykart 125cc in April, cutting four points off Norris’s lead, he carried the momentum into the fourth round. With three hard-fought race wins, he was again top scorer, further reducing Norris’s lead as the championship reaches half-way.

  Blackett, who finished second overall when he was 100cc Champion in 2021 & 22, battled wheel-to-wheel on Sunday with 2024 Champion Driver Jacob Mayers, winning margins measured in inches. Blackett was fastest in Qualifying, but Mayers led the opening race until the last lap, when Blackett passed him to win by two-tenths.

  Moving forward earlier from the reversed grid in race two, Blackett held on for victory from Mayers, who took second on the final lap, Aeden Bruce claiming his second of four third places, after some lively final laps. Mayers led Blackett throughout race three to win by one-tenth, the positions reversed in the last race, when Mayers dropped back in the early stages, recovering to cross the line just seven-hundredths behind.

  In the 60cc Cadets class, the rivalry between Norris and Ava Mayers produced some first-class racing, the pair so evenly matched they scored identical points. Mayers, who became the BKA’s first female karter to be overall top points scorer for the day in April, qualified fastest of the Cadets. While she was three-tenths quicker than Norris, he moved ahead on the first lap of race one, winning by 3secs, with Finn Cox third.

  In the reversed-grid second race, the front-runners moved up in the early laps, although Norris’s winning margin fell to 1.3s. In the third outing, Mayers snatched the lead on the final lap to win by 0.4sec, while there were three changes of lead in an exciting final race, Mayers again the winner, by the same narrow margin.

  There were no runners in Easykart 100cc class, so points leader Jaydn Brathwaite has slipped to seventh in the overall standings behind Cox, who finished third all day in 60cc, and Bruce. The fifth date in the eight-round championship is Sunday, July 19.

Championship points (after four rounds):

Overall:

1st Edward Norris, 369 points

2nd Aaron Blackett, 357pts

3rd Jacob Mayers, 346pts

4th Ava Mayers (F), 341pts

5th Finn Cox, 297pts

6th Aeden Bruce, 279pts

etc

60cc Cadets: 1st, Norris, 369pts; 2nd A Mayers (F), 341pts; 3rd Cox, 297pts; etc 100cc Juniors: 1st, Jaydn Brathwaite, 236pts; 2nd Jordyn Hinkson, 199pts; 3rd Jaylan Priddee, 167pts; etc 125cc Lights: 1st, Blackett, 357pts; 2nd J Mayers, 346pts; 3rd Bruce, 279pts; etc

Remaining rounds: July 19, September 20, October 18, November 15 (spare date: December 6), all at Bushy Park Barbados, St Philip

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