Two of the biggest weekends on the domestic calendar landed on the same days this year. Kartmasters 2026 at PF International. SuperOne‘s penultimate rounds at Whilton Mill. Between them, they produced exactly the kind of racing that makes the rest of the season worth sitting through.
A GP Plate. A podium built entirely out of a broken ankle and a punctured lung. A driver who started a Grand Prix Final dead last and very nearly caught the front pack anyway. At least one red flag that decided a championship battle almost by accident. So here’s what actually happened, driver by driver, no filler, no spin.
Kartmasters and SuperOne 2026 results at a glance
| Driver | Event | Class | Result |
|---|---|---|---|
| Jackson Hilton | Kartmasters, PF International | Mini Max 950 | P1, Grand Prix Plate winner |
| Fletcher Jamieson | Kartmasters, PF International | Junior Rotax | P2, Grand Prix Final |
| Luke Milward | Kartmasters, PF International | Mini Max 950 | P8, Grand Prix Final |
| Jack Thompson | Kartmasters, PF International | Senior Rotax | P17, from 36th on the grid |
| Benjamin Sljivar | Kartmasters, PF International | Micro Max | Top privateer |
| Nelson Taylor | SuperOne Rounds 9 & 10, Whilton Mill | Junior Rotax | Pole, heat win and a podium in Round 9 |
| Jude Puddefoot | SuperOne Rounds 9 & 10, Whilton Mill | Junior Rotax | Podium in the Round 10 Final |
| Isaac Jameson | SuperOne Rounds 9 & 10, Whilton Mill | Junior Rotax | P2 in Round 10, Heat 1 |
Jackson Hilton wins the Kartmasters GP Plate
Start with the result that matters most, because it’s the one everyone will remember by Christmas. Jackson Hilton went pole to pole on day one, then took a penalty on day two that would have quietly ended most people’s weekend, nineteen places gone in a single session. It didn’t end his. A P7 in Sunday’s Super Heat turned into the outright win in the Grand Prix Final, Mini Max 950, first Kartmasters with Hunter Motorsport and Venator Race Engines, and a plate that’s now his for the rest of the year.
Thirty years Kartmasters has been running. This is exactly the kind of result it exists to produce.
Fletcher Jamieson: P2, and the best story of the weekend
Most results don’t need much context. This one does, so bear with us. Fletcher Jamieson finished P2 in Junior Rotax at Kartmasters, twelve months on from a crash at this exact event that left him with a broken ankle, a broken neck, and a punctured lung.
Back-to-back P2s across the Super Heat and Grand Prix Final. Backed by Jaxx Motorsport and Maxx Engines throughout. There isn’t a bigger turnaround story in British karting this year, and we’re not going to pretend there is just to be polite about it.
Jack Thompson: last on the grid, seventeenth by the time it mattered
Kartmasters had one genuinely brutal storyline sitting outside the winner’s circle, and it belonged to Jack Thompson. He started the Grand Prix Final thirty-sixth out of thirty-six, after a weekend spent being driven into on track, twice, with no penalty issued either time. Within a lap he was up to P17. Contact ended the race properly a little later, but by then the point had been made.
Getting from P39 overall to P17 on the road, starting dead last, is a real result whatever the finishing sheet says.
Which might be the most polite way anyone’s ever described getting hit twice in one weekend. Racing with Hunter Motorsport and Venator Race Engines, and doing all of it on top of a daily cystic fibrosis routine most of the grid never has to think about.
Luke Milward: P8 on debut with a new team
The quietest storyline of the weekend, and arguably one of the better ones for it. Luke Milward, racing via XKART, qualified fourth fastest in Mini Max 950 on his first event with the team, dipped through the middle of the weekend the way most new partnerships tend to, then recovered to P8 in the Grand Prix Final. No fireworks here. Just foundations, which is exactly what a first weekend together is supposed to look like.
Benjamin Sljivar: top privateer, no asterisk needed
Benjamin Sljivar beat every other privateer entered at Kartmasters in Micro Max, a field stacked with budgets he simply doesn’t have. Quali pace was there all weekend. The Final didn’t quite go his way after losing places off the start. The result still means more than plenty of the karts that finished ahead of him. Backed by Force Motorsport and Kart Smart.
Meanwhile at Whilton Mill: SuperOne’s penultimate weekend
While PF International was busy handing out its Grand Prix, SuperOne’s Junior Rotax field was fighting through Rounds 9 and 10 over at Whilton Mill, and somehow it delivered just as much drama.
Nelson Taylor: a pole, a win, and a bruised rib
Nelson Taylor took pole and a heat win in Round 9, carrying a rib injury picked up mid-heat all the way to a podium. Then he backed it up in Round 10 with a recovery drive from P11, after a wall strike had already ended his second heat early. Two rounds. A pole. A win. Two podium-calibre drives. Not a bad weekend to carry a bruised rib through.
Jude Puddefoot: race-winning pace, and a podium in the Final
Jude Puddefoot put it best himself: “A weekend where the results definitely didn’t reflect the pace we had, but we take the positives and keep pushing.” Fair summary. A heat win undone by a red flag and contact after the restart in Round 9, then genuine race-winning pace in Round 10, crossing the line first in a heat before a penalty stepped in, and a podium in the Final after a launch that put him straight into P2. He’s now inside the top five in the championship with two rounds left to go.
Isaac Jameson: the toughest weekend on paper, the rawest pace on track
Isaac Jameson probably had the toughest weekend on paper, and arguably the most raw pace of anyone at Whilton Mill. Pushed off twice in Round 9. A smashed wheel hub in Round 10’s Heat 2. And, buried in the middle of all that, a Heat 1 podium in Round 10 that got promoted all the way to P2. In his own words: “Another weekend of what could have been.” The Junior Rotax finale is next month, same circuit, and it’ll also be his last race in the category.
The overall take
Two events, one weekend, and a fairly complete demonstration of what British karting actually is once you get past the results sheet. A GP Plate winner who took a penalty on the chin and won anyway. A driver who came back from injuries that would end most people’s season, let alone their career, and stood on a podium a year later almost to the day. Three separate SuperOne drivers who all had faster pace than their finishing positions ever showed, for three completely different reasons.
If there’s a theme running through both circuits this weekend, it’s that the results sheet is rarely the whole story. Every driver above proved that in their own way, some of them the hard way. That’s motorsport at every level, not just the bit with the TV cameras, and it’s exactly why we do what we do.
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