June 27, 2005

The 2005 Season: Disaster. Again! :(

Well we waited all year for the round at Buckmore Park and so were suitably excited on the drive down to the kent cicuit. The weather had threatened rain but it held off for Saturday practice. All was going very well indeed with us only 2 tenths off the super pro teams times at around 46.751 secs a lap.

About 3 hours into practice with Nick out in the kart he suddenly decided to pit. We ran over with him pointing to the steering and when I got over yep sure as eggs is eggs the right hand stub had split at the weld on the chassis! Remember the left hand one went when we were in the lead at Sandown 2 months ago. To say my heart dropped is an understatement as I knew our weekend was over!

We got the kart back to the pits and the red mist came down over my eyes! I picked up my lump hammer and yes your very own calm spiritual CEO set too on the bent stub at the front and promtly smashed the hell out of it to some very odd looking glances from other teams in the pit! There is nothing better than a bit of Lump hammer rage I can tell you :) We packed up and came home to play BF2 instead.

I am now toying with changing the chassis as the old wright R2 just does not seem up to the job. 3 other karts had the exact same problem at buckmore so definatly a design fault there. Oh well thats racing I guess. I feel like Minardi!

Mark.

Posted by Mark at June 27, 2005 9:27 AM

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