The Racers Edge

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

Monday, September 10, 2007

Internations Karting @ Warden Law

We arrived at Warden Law on Thursday (Aug 30th) morning and after a day of testing, we were in a confident mood. Most of the ProKart team had managed to get under 60 seconds for a lap with Grant and Alan just making sub 59. However, that was to be the highlight of the weekend, as we just couldn't get any of our karts to work with the new tyres that we picked from the tyre pool. Grant's new engines helped him, but we just weren't competitive enough and in the final England took the first 5 places :-( Once again the driving standards were simply awful, with England being docked over 100 points over Saturday's heats. Wales weren't far behind and Scotland lost a measly 5 points. On Sunday the races reverted to standard MSA rules for driving misdemeanours and things got a bit better, but I still got taken out in the final. I very much doubt if this meeting will take place again - There were just too many (expensive) incidents that were simply not necessary. Once again, Ros lent me his kart, and Chris Miller chipped in by transporting me and the kart to and from the meeting. Thanks guys.

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