The Racers Edge

At the age of 40, I decided to go motor racing - The ultimate mid life crisis.

Friday, March 24, 2006

Post Holiday Blues

I'bve been away sking in Canada for the part couple of weeks - It started out badly as we got delayed for 12 hours at Glasgow Airport, which meant we missed our connecting flight in London. So 52 hours after we left Glasgow, we finally made it to Whistler. After that it got way better, and we had a great time - loads of fresh snow and even 2 days of sunshine and blue skies. But now it's back to reality:-)

I've been fortunate enough to be selected to compete in the Thailand 24 hour endurance kart race, www.thailand24h.com , at the end of June. I'll be driving for F'Sport along with Neil, Craig, Jack and F'Sport MD, Ian - all of us over 40!

F'Sport are the racing team of Caledonia Park, who are completing the planning stages of the biggest kart circuit in the UK, which will be somewhere in the West of Scotland. (more details later. It's great to have to chance to race in this kind of event, but our primary goal is to raise cash for the orphans of Pattaya. You can help by going to www.justgiving.com/thailand24hr.

To get Neil and Craig up to race speed, they are racing together in the Crail endurance series this Sunday - They'll be in a proper race kart, which they are hiring from MBM, who are usually the team to beat, so lets hope the kart isn't 'too good'.

I'll post the race result late on Sunday - Last month Ros and I managed second despite an evil handling kart - Can we do better this month?

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