Tons of fun is planned at St. David's County Cricket Club tomorrow as part of the annual Gilbert Lamb Fun Day.

Among the highlights: an Easter egg hunt, a football tournament, a hot dog eating contest, egg and spoon races and a beer drinking competition and, the Annual Mohawk Go-Kart Grand Prix.

Of course, a Good Friday event would not be complete without kites.

Participants can help build a 20-foot kite at the site or bring their own and compete in a variety of categories.

But one of the most popular events is the go-kart race, which begins at 3.30 p.m. near St. David's Lighthouse and has participants travel down to the club field.

The event is watched by people along the route – folks come out of their homes to watch as the daredevils take the hill – with running commentary given on the participants' positions.

Despite it being the first time he's entered the Annual Mohawk Go-Kart Grand Prix, the man who figures that he will take home the trophy is Ernest (Mugs) McCallum.

He won the award for the largest kite last year and believes he'll sweep this competition as well.

His not-so-secret weapon that will allow him to walk away with the trophy carved out of cedar by Milton Hill? His go-kart.

A fan of the real Grand Prix, Mr. McCallum has travelled to Daytona and other locations to watch the races.

His go-kart even has the number 24 on the side in honour of his favourite NASCAR driver, Jeff Gordon.

In this race however, he won't have the benefit of a souped-up engine – in his ride along the roads of St. David's he will have only gravity pushing him along.

According to Mr. McCallum his go-kart is like nothing seen in the annual race before – the flames adorning its crimson sides and the helmet on his head are the only things spectators are likely to note as he whizzes by.

"I went home [after last year's race] and began doing some sketches that I wanted to do and I eventually came up with this," he said.

"I wanted something that was aerodynamic and pretty. I mean we are gone 400 years now, so something that would be 2009-ish, not 1609-ish."

He has even canvassed the public for their impression of it.

"People have said, 'oh, it looks too pretty, it looks wicked, you can't race it'.

"And others have said, you can't race because you have this and that, but that's my competition talking.

"I am sending guys to the hardware store finding new materials – I'm got to step up the game."

Asked whether others have stayed with the more traditional go-kart, he said: "Some guys who have probably heard of it, or saw pictures of it, they will probably try to bring out something more 2009-ish or 2006-ish, whatever.

"But you know, they'll probably try to make their stuff a little more aerodynamic. If I was them I would."

Although this will be the first time he's entered the Annual Mohawk Go-Kart Grand Prix, making go-karts isn't exactly a new past time for Mr. McCallum.

"I made one or two way back when I was a little child, but I think I got licks for it," he recalled.

"Being a young boy and making a go-kart and coming off the hill was so dangerous. I was teasing my mom when I building this one and I said, 'Aren't you glad that I didn't think of this when I was 12 or 13?

"When we were little, we didn't even need go-karts to come off the hill, I was a bike person myself, but if something would go off the hill, we would go off with it. It's not like I have been making go-karts over the years or all my life, as you get older other things take precedence."

He laughed, "And then there is this thing called work. Cheesum you can't live without it now.

"But I had a lot of fun and I really enjoyed building this thing. It was a blast, different things like this makes me happy – working with my hands."

Help, he said, came from friends and relatives.

"I had an old person working with me, it was uncle Alfred Pitcher and he basically helped me every night through the building phase.

"Uncle Noel Pitcher sprayed the basecoat and the clear coat and Robert O'Connor did all the graphics and Stevie Dickinson did all the welding on the axels that I needed."

He said he believed the first races were held three years ago.

"It could have been before, because I remember taking a trip on one Good Friday, but as far as I know it was 2006," said Mr. McCallum.

"But since the race started, I have always wanted to go in it and last year I was a little disappointed. In 2007 they didn't have a race, and I wasn't sure whether they were going to have it last year [so I didn't make a go-kart]. But I am sure they are having it this year and that is why I have built my car."

The annual Gilbert Lamb Fun Day begins at 11 a.m. and lasts until sundown.