Monaco Kart Cup 2008

I arrived in Monte Carlo yesterday evening after a hectic journey where I was called to say that 2 of our drivers had called off! A number of names were put forward ( Chis Miller - no license, Alan Kirkcaldy - too busy, Mark Johnston - family illness and Ben Clucas - stuck somewhere in Germany) but eventually, we found that Alex Mortimar and Bradley Ellis, 2007 Brittish GT champions,current front runners in the FIA GT3 series and karting champions in thier youth, would be joining us - A good end to a up and down day. Chris Hyman also races in FIA GT3 so I would be the odd one out :-)


After 'stickering up' our kart (see above), we went into first practice where everything was going OK until Alex didn't appear - turned out that a guy in front of him had hit the barriers and bounced back into his path, resulting in a broken track rod. This was easily fixed and in second practice we all did good consistent times, ending up 25th of 44.

For qualifying, Bradley was first out and he consistently low 54 second laps. Then it was my turn and I was happy to hear that I'd managed a 53.5 while runing lots of consistent 53.7s. It was then Chris and he again was very consistent with a best of 54.7. Alex rounded things off with a best of 54.1. - This qualified us 17th, but another 2 tenths would have gained us 7 places! I've no doubt that Alex and Bradley will get much quicker as they learn the circuit, so we are looking in great shape for the race, the first of which is at 10:12 on Saturday morning. More later.....