Parakarting Brazier is proving a bit of a high flyer (From Wilts and Gloucestershire Standard)

Parakarting Brazier is proving a bit of a high flyer

YOUNG Daniel Brazier, who has just finished his first full season of National parakarting, has qualified to represent Great Britain in next month's European championships in Belgium.

These championships consists of five days of competition with up to 70 parakarters in a race.

And 14-year-old Daniel is likely to be the only junior representing his country at the event.

Parakarting is a sport where the pilot is harnessed - but able to release in an emergency - to a kite.

The skill is in selecting the right kite size in order to propel the parakart around a circuit without being dragged or lifted out of the parakart.

Daniel, from Cirencester, who competes with adults as there is no junior section to this sport, finished the season in tenth place while his father Richard, who also races, finished the season two places behind in 12th.

The pair are also competing in the Parakart Super-cup series which sees the final round this month at Hoylake.

Daniel is currently leading the standard class with Richard a close second.

Both Daniel and Richard are hoping to compete in next year's Desert Buggy Challenge 2004 in March.

The challenge involves individual parakarters navigating their way across five desert areas of United Arab Emirates using GPS navigation.

They are both sponsored by Flexifoil Kites and usually compete with Blade 3 kites. Daniel recently appeared on BBC TV's Small Change, testing kites with friend and fellow Deer Park pupil Jon Reid.