June 9, 2005

The 2005 Season: Round 4

Well I promised a race report from the weekends Race.

Turn up we did with our new sponsered livery generating no small amount of kart envy in the pits! :) Anyway we set about qualifying with avengance and managed to get quite a respectable 17th on the grid. Not too bad. It was Nicks turn to start and so we left him on the grid amongst 40 other karts to stew in his nerves :)

Race on and we seemed to be doing ok. Doing ok that is until Nick was forced to pit after running into the back of Q8 and stoving our bumper in :( A hasty repair saw us back on the track in last place and no less than 3 laps down! Nick then had to come in after 1 hour 10 mins dues to his wrist hurting so Chris took to the field with a lot of work to do. Chris in normal style carved up the field. We decided that Chris would do two stints and I would do the last one. Chris radioed he was fine at 1 hour 40 so we decided to pit him and send him out again!

I got a drink of redbull and a straw (some fuel pipe) ready for him and whilst the kart was beinbg refuled he drank the lot jumped in the kart and was off for another hour. For any of you that think you are good at karting I suggest you try doing back to back 1 hour 45 min stints in an endurance race :) Anyway after another hour we decided to pit a very tired Chris for me to bring home the chequered flag.

I took over from Chris and set about chasing places. Try as I might I could'nt close any and we finished in a very respectable 15th overall after unlapping ourselves 3 times! We seem to play catchup well. Now we just have to stay on the track in the first stint and I am sure we can win!

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Posted by: Zack at June 13, 2005 10:31 PM

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