The third part of a 3 day weekend of karting at Wildtracks which took place Friday 17th - Sunday 19th May, involving testing, building, rebuilding, repairs, fast laps, wheel to wheel racing, minor incidents a few sore ribs but a lot of fun.
Sunday 19th
Early start today, alarm at 6:15, thats pretty early for us Yorkshire folk after a midnight finish. Getting karts, tyres, wets, overalls, spares, video cameras, still cameras and a big cuppa tea ready! Loading up, checking tyre pressures and we have a flat, make that 2 flats, great start! Adie and Fiona get to us for 8:15 and we set off for Wildtracks by 8:45, 15mins late.
Steve and Wiley are at the track when we get there with Steve's 2 CRG Karts, Its sunny and warm:
Sunday 19th
Early start today, alarm at 6:15, thats pretty early for us Yorkshire folk after a midnight finish. Getting karts, tyres, wets, overalls, spares, video cameras, still cameras and a big cuppa tea ready! Loading up, checking tyre pressures and we have a flat, make that 2 flats, great start! Adie and Fiona get to us for 8:15 and we set off for Wildtracks by 8:45, 15mins late.
Steve and Wiley are at the track when we get there with Steve's 2 CRG Karts, Its sunny and warm:
We unload all the karts and get them on stands for final checks. Dean and Adie work on the Birel its looking good:
Its time for Adie to get out on track with the Wright Kart:
Steve & Wiley on track:
Dean on a flying lap:
Now for the first minor problem, I (Pete) went out in the Tony Kart with "newly fitted curb riders" after a couple of laps to warm up I opened it up on the final corner coming onto the start finish and duly slammed into the tyre wall without hesitation, owwww.
As stated on an earlier blog we are all beginners at this and what I did not realise is that an additional 5 or 6mmof curb riders means that effectively the chassis is lower to the ground, and when it touches the main track (not the curb under racing conditions it breaks your tyre traction and you head straight to the scene of the accident. At this point i'm not sure but it looks a lot like a cracked rib, as I said before owww. That was my days racing over :(
As stated on an earlier blog we are all beginners at this and what I did not realise is that an additional 5 or 6mmof curb riders means that effectively the chassis is lower to the ground, and when it touches the main track (not the curb under racing conditions it breaks your tyre traction and you head straight to the scene of the accident. At this point i'm not sure but it looks a lot like a cracked rib, as I said before owww. That was my days racing over :(
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Day 3 to come..........
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