History of the Club


    The club was started some 50 years ago on a farm near Leverton,
    just north of Boston in Lincolnshire.

    Alex Henshaw, the famous aircraft
    racer and Spitfire test pilot was brought up in this area. In the 1920s
    as a boy he raced anything with an engine on the family farm - on two and
    four wheels. Light weight was important to Alex and there is no doubt that
    with no other interests karting as we know it would have been developed
    there and then, however in 1932 whilst still 18 he learned to fly and his
    father bought him a Gypsy Moth aeroplane. Alex became famous worldwide for
    both his air race successes and long distance record breaking. At the
    outbreak of WWII  he was enlisted as a test pilot., most famously for the
    Spitfire; it is estimated he flew 10% of those produced. When the war ended
    he went to live in South Africa, but returned to the family farm in 1948.

    He and a friend, Austin Monks devised all sorts of vehicles to race on the
    farm and in the 1950s had built lightweight vehicles powered by motorcycle
    engines to race against each other and their friends. They started holding
    official race meetings on land farmed by the Moffat family at Leverton.
    The original silver championship trophies presented by the Moffat family
    are still in use today. Alas we have no records of the original race and
    championship winners.

    Some years later the club was renamed Boston Grass Kart club and
    subsequently some 25 years ago Coningsby & District Grass Kart Club to
    reflect the general area in which we raced.
    Racing members come from as far afield as Essex, Northamptonshire and
    even Scotland.

    Currently we race monthly on the grass in the summer months - May through
    to October - with modified karts for off-road use and on the road in the
    winter months - November through to April - with classes for both road and
    grass karts. All karts of all classes are welcome at our meetings.

    We run an annual Track Evening on the full circuit at Cadwell Park, the home
    of the MSA SuperKart Grand Prix.

Separate Winter Road and Grass Championships are held, with annual trophies
presented at our February Dinner Dance.





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