ALEX TOTH-JONES

ALEX TOTH - JONES
Hi . I'm Alex Toth-Jones and I race karts!
My passion is racing, I love everything about it!

I've been racing karts since I was 12.
I currently race in the Senior Max Rotax class.
My main club is Trent Valley Kart club at PFi in Grantham
but I also race at 3 sisters in Wigan as well.
I currently run with a race team called Griffin Racing based in Warrington.
In my first year at PFi I came 12th in the championship as a novice driver and took a few novice trophies over the year.
In 2011 I finished 9th and took 2nd Rookie in the Junior Max championship. 
I was heading for 6th place overall in the championship but towards the end of the season I had some pretty disastrous race meetings most of which were out of my control!
I’ve since moved up a class to Senior Max and I'm halfway through my first year and so far it's going well I stand 10^th in the championship and looking forward to some more trophy's in 2013! 
My next race is the big race of the year Kartmasters the British Kart Grand Prix held at PFi in Grantham 1^st August – 4^th August. It’s massive and all the top drivers around the world attend with the main races being televised on either Sky Sports or Motors TV.
You’ve got to be light and extremely fit to be a karter as the lighter you are the faster you go and racing a kart like formula 1 needs a lot of strength and stamina not to mention concentration. We get up to speeds of 75mph on a small track with up to 40 karts on track at once.
My dream is to move onto professional car racing such as touring cars or even F1.
Karting is a very expensive hobby and so I rely on sponsors to help me fund my racing. I’m always looking for more sponsors and offer great advertising packages.
I’m also racing at Pole Position in Leeds at the end of November for the 24hr Ginetta karting challenge for Children in need with the Adaptive Control race team raising as much money for charity as well as trying to win the race of course!

I write a regular race blog which is published on my web site www.alextothjonesracing.co.uk if you want to hear more about my progress and you can follow me on twitter @AlexTJRacing