Harvey Ball – 3rd in Worlds Largest Motorsport Event

The BIKC (British Indoor Karting Championship) is the worlds largest motorsport event with around 5000 entering each year. The road to Warrington (where the National Finals are held each year) starts with a 3 month qualifying period at each track around the country, culminating in the top 20 local drivers being invited to race in the local finals. The top 5 from each club make it to the Regional Finals, where after a full day of racing (3 rounds, semi and final) the top 3 make it to the National Finals. Only the top 30 in the country, make Nationals.

Not many Cadet drivers make it to the BIKC National Finals once, and only a few elite drivers make it twice. in 2025, Harvey joined the most exclusive of clubs. Cadet drivers who have make the National Finals 3 years in a row (2023, 2024 and 2025).

Harvey Ball – Final Favourite After Dominating the Heats and Semi-Finals

The BIKC Regional and National Finals in 2025 updated the format so each of the 3 heats started with a qualifying run, and then immediately into a race. This was a great format update. While TeamSport do an amazing job keeping the karts as close as possible in performance, there is always one or two karts that is a little faster than the others. This new format ensured that even if you drew one of the slower karts in a qualifying at the start of the day, it didn’t ruin everything for you.

With that in mind, it backed up just how good Harvey has been again this year. For the second year in a row at the National Finals, Harvey scored more points in the heats than any other cadet driver.Over the 2024 and 2025 seasons, he has won more heats (5 out of 6) than any other driver in the country! This year, two heat wins and a second place in the heats.

What made this even more remarkable was the fact he arguably drew the toughest group in the heats, including 3 of last years top 5 finishers.

With a great run of results in the Heats, Harvey started Pole again in the Semi-Finals this year, and just like last year he won his semi-final. This year, however, Harvey secured pole position for the Grand Final thanks to also securing the fastest lap time over the Semi-finals.

P3 in the end – out done by the “Joker Lap” in the Final.

Harvey’s held the track record at the Warrington track since October 2024, and in the last 2 national finals, Harvey has not been over taken once on track at Warrington. This year, saw the introduction of the Joker Lap, a pitstop drive through with a stop and go controlled by a marshal, something Harvey has never done before, while many of the drivers who have been at the Track a lot more often have.

During the final, and following a number of issues in the other races during the day, the decision was taken to stop first and come out in clean air and get hot laps in. With the first lap always being the slowest for the cadets as the tyres warm up, this, in theory, should have given an advantage with warmer tyres for each of the times you need to hit the sections that need the most grip.

Unfortunately, Harvey drove in to the pits in a controlled manner as instructed in the briefing before the final, and lost 0.9 seconds compared to the others who flung it in more aggressively. This meant that when the second place driver pitted two laps later, they came out just in front of Harvey, and it wasn’t possible to get around him. To compound it, they were both overcut by the driver who had the fastest kart and just happened to start from P3. Under last years format, Harvey would undountably finished as National Champion this year, upgrading his Vice-Champion finish in 2024, but a great reward for his driving was being regarded as driver of the day and also taking home the a full season of Club 100 racing for 2026, with the added possibility of aiming for a 2027 International seat if he can finish in the top 5 of Club 100.

With all said and done, Harvey is exceptionally proud of a second Podium in a row.

Thank you for the Amazing Support!

We just want to say a big thank you to everyone who supported Harvey over the National Finals. So much love on the comments on YouTube and so nice to see so many nice things said about Harvey’s attitude and commitment to racing with respect.

Harvey had so much positivity from all around the country, and even abroad, and a lot of great feedback from the commentry team, especially Chris Ball (no we are not related) who even shared some stories of talking with Harvey and his dad over the season. – Including how he drove a different line to the one he intenteded to use in qualifying during practice at the Regional Finals as he knew he was being watched and others were going to copy what he did.

Now the big question is… Can Harvey make it back to the Nationals in the Juniors… The road to Warrington starts again now!