March 30, 2005

Endurance Kart Racing: Round 1 2005

Where have I been? Recovering from a grueling 6 hour endurance race thats where! Man am I out of shape as are the rest of the team also.

Yes on Sunday we raced at Sandown park in round 1 of the British Endurance champs. Qualification on Sunday saw us attain 18 place on the grid out of 40 karts with only 1.5 seconds seperating the whole field. well done Nick for that 46.867 time! It was not untill my drive that I realized how much I had let myself go since last season ha ha :( Serious back ache only 20 mins into my drive with over an hour to go is not good, and with only 9 seconds on the straight in which to try to relax your muscles you dont get much of a break around SP!

We had our usual run of bad luck with a front stub axle snapping whilst Chris was on a fast bend. This saw the wheel fly into the pit area and him spin off luckily with no other kart damage. We managed to get him back in and replaced it but by the time he went back out we were 9 laps down and spent the rest of the race trying to get that back. We finally finished in 7th place in Clubman which saw us get 33 points so not a bad result all things considered. Roll on round 2 at Milton keynes in 3 weeks.

Mark...

Posted by Mark at March 30, 2005 12:07 PM

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