Crail Summer Series - Round 2

The second round was much like the first:-( On new tyres I managed to miss pole by a tenth, but the lack of 'big engines' is costing us in the races.

 Race one was fairly predictable with the 3 big engine teams steadily pulling a gap of about 12 seconds on me over the first half of the race. Ros took over and broughtnus home in a comfortable 4th.

Race 2 looked to be going the same way until the SA kart went off at pit bend, moving us up to 3rd.  Ros was comfortably holing third when the left had engine cut out with 7 minutes to go. He kept going but by the flag we had dropped to 11th. I dismantled the carb and found quite a bit of dirt - Easily cleaned, but a real pain:-( Frog Racing, who we share our van/tools/ etc with had the same issue in race 3, so it looks like contaminated fuel.

Race 3 saw me have a great battle with Dave Morgan on the F-Sport kart, with a couple of seconds being the most I could get ahead. Again Ros had a fairly lonely run to the flag for another 4th place. 

It looks like, unless someone has a spare set of big engines, we won't manage to win the championship for a third consecutive year,  but we sort of figured that this would happen.

I'm typing this while watching the Le Mans 24 hour race, and in 3 weeks, I'm heading out there for the 24 hour Kart Race - I haven't met any of my team mates yet, but I'm really looking forward to it.