Winding Down....

Compared to Monaco, Crail is pretty ordinary, but that didn't stop me from having a fun day at the first round of the ESKC winter series. Afer last months terrible weather, it was a relief to arrive at a dry circuit with a clear sunny sky above. After qualifing, we were in second place, over 0.5s off the pace set by Apollo.

For race 1, I got a good start but could do nothing about Scott in the Apollo kart, who just drove away. It was a pretty lonely half hour from there on, and once Ros took over, it was much the same for him. We were running in our new engines, so were surprised to be as competitive, and were happy with a 2nd place finish.

Race 2 was the usual reverse grid, and by the half hour I had got up to fourth. Ros took over, and by the flag 2nd, 3rd and 4th were within 4 seconds of each other with Apollo still dominating 10 seconds ahead of the rest. Fourth for us.

So for Race 3 we made some changes to the kart, and started 2nd on the grid. I managed to stay with Scott in the Apollo kart for foe first couple of laps but then got caught up in a battle for 2nd with Milwalk and MBM, After a couple of laps of exchanging 2nd & 3rd with Chris from Milwalk, I decided to just sit on his bumper, with Grant from MBM in a similar position behind me. This allowed us to start catching back up with Scott, and by the change over Chris had got past him with me close behind. After the change over, it was pretty close, but Apollo managed to win, from us, by 3 seconds. A great result for Apollo and not bad for us either.

After the race, Dom and Brett were testing our kart with a view to buying it. Ros decided that there's no challenge in racing a kart we know so well and that has won us the championship. They seemed to like it, which is not surprising :-)

So for the next round of the winter series, on Dec 3rd, we're probably going to have to borrow/rent a kart, which should make things interesting.

What a great year - Winning the endurance championship, being selected for the Scottish kart team, the Thailand 24 hour and racing at Monaco against some fantastic drivers. Roll on 2007!