Rayner Costello Racing

** Race Day at Mackay and District Kart Club **

2025 Sugar City Titles is underway 🟢

I'm having a crack at not qualifying and starting from the back! Could be hero or zero 🫣
18 competitors in the category, so it's sure to be a fun day 👊

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A few 🔥 shots from Todd Rd

AKC Round 1 in Melbourne - Done & dusted!

What a massive week! This was my first crack at running an AKC weekend on my own, and I can definitely say that it is as difficult as it sounds. 5,300km of driving & 3 hectic days of kart racing all completed in the space of 6 days. No mechanic, just a driver fueled with alot of passion 😃.

I ended up bringing it home in P14 out of the 37 karts in X30. It was a tough weekend as I could never quite get the kart into a comfortable window, and the racing from some of the other drivers was reckless to put it nicely. However, despite a carby leak hindering acceleration off of corners in the final, I was able to place the kart in the right spots at the right times to move up from 27th on the grid to 14th at the end of the race!

A big thankyou to the Lumsden family for the company at the track, and lending a hand to pick my kart up from the grid and push it back to my pit area after each race!

And also, thankyou Justin Smith & Lisa Smith for the awesome accomodation over the weekend 😁

And of course, thankyou to my incredible sponsors, who make doing these events a reality:

R&H Refrigeration & Air-Conditioning
EHS Parts & Components
Brighter Learning, Tuition and Training
Mills Painting Contractors PTY LTD
Weigh'n'Pay - Cash 4 Scrap
Elite Plastic Fabrications

Stayed tuned for my highlights video of the Round to be uploaded within the next week 😎👊

It's race week!! Round 1 of the 2025 Australian Kart Championship is now upon us. There's always something special about the first round of the Championship. Each year, you put in more effort, more work, more time to learning everything and getting every detail just right and perfected before heading to round 1 of the championship. I'm feeling more ready than ever this year. With a head full of knowledge, and many hopes and dreams; I'm really looking forward to this one. No expectations on a certain position or goal set. Only objective is to give it my absolute all, use my knowledge to the best of my ability, and take every opportunity as it comes and the results shall follow.

Thankyou to everyone who has come onboard this year and chipped in to support the continuation of my journey for one last year. Now all the hardwork and preparation comes to life, as we hit the track for the first time of the year in Port Melbourne on Friday morning.

Now enough with all the sentimental stuff! I've still got 2,350km to drive in 1.5 days! 😃 Let's do this 👊

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Elite Plastic Fabrications

Where do I even start with this weekend?!

It started off on Friday night, finding out that Proserpine had cancelled their race meet due to rain in the area. Desperate to put a shakedown meet on the new kart before AKC; I decided to see if I could get a late entry to head down to Bundaberg for their 2 day Race meet. They accepted the entry, so at 1:30am Saturday morning, I was off to Bundy 😃

Then about an hour from the track, the U bolts on one of the trailer leaf springs decided to part company. With some tech support over the phone from Brady Godfrey, I made some bush repairs and got to the track with 8 minutes to spare before practice.

Once I was at the track, it was a great weekend. In a field of 11 drivers, I clean swept the meet with 1st in all races. The kart was easy to tune up, and it was a great opportunity to learn another track and work out what does and doesn't work on this kart. Super happy with it at the moment, and feeling confident with the direction I need to go in heading into Round 1 of the Australian Kart Championship in Melbourne 👊

Big thankyou to Brady & his family for helping me get the trailer repaired properly at the track on Saturday arvo. Absolute lifesavers!

Thankyou to all my incredible sponsors who have come onboard this year to support the journey

- R&H Refrigeration & Airconditioning
- EHS Parts & Components
- Brighter Learning, Tuition and Training
- Mills Painting Contractors PTY LTD
- Weigh'n'Pay - Cash 4 Scrap
- Elite Plastic Fabrications
- CC Race Engines