Having recovered from last year, this year I've been trying to build up my fitness. What a difference it has made. I've been to the track every weekend for the last four weeks, and except for the first race meeting of this year that was held last week, I've pumped out over 100 laps each time. I've also improved my lap time (on new tires) to a 36.8s.
Race day last week was good, but a little disappointing. I've changed to the 'freshman' class which is for newcomers. It means an engine change (which I hired) which is the first one I've done. I qualified 5th. I didn't think it was too bad a lap but I thought I'd do worse considering the level of the competition. I'm still finding it hard to get the heat into the tires for the first lap.
Nicely cocking a wheelThe qualifying race was good, a nice move to get from 5th to fourth. Then the final. Popped into 3rd which would have been good if I'd of stayed there, but a mistake on the last corner in last few laps dropped me to fifth. Disappointing, but I learnt a lot.
Getting some post race advice. (Thanks to Yoshie for the pictures).I won't be karting for the next few weeks, but I will be driving next week on the Minami Course at Suzuka. Real cars! :)
Having recovered from last year, this year I've been trying to build up my fitness. What a difference it has made. I've been to the track every weekend for the last four weeks, and except for the first race meeting of this year that was held last week, I've pumped out over 100 laps each time. I've also improved my lap time (on new tires) to a 36.8s.
Race day last week was good, but a little disappointing. I've changed to the 'freshman' class which is for newcomers. It means an engine change (which I hired) which is the first one I've done. I qualified 5th. I didn't think it was too bad a lap but I thought I'd do worse considering the level of the competition. I'm still finding it hard to get the heat into the tires for the first lap.
Nicely cocking a wheel
Getting some post race advice. (Thanks to Yoshie for the pictures).