The first challenge of today was finding Rissington Kart Club, it is located in the middle of nowhere, it is peaceful (apart from the continual revving of kart engines!)
After eventually arriving at Rissington - I was once again greeted by Steve's friendly face and a gigantic awning! I did a sort of excited skip into the awning, and was greeted by my kart, No. 93 ...
Its beautiful isn't it? When I first saw it I had to pinch myself to check that I wasn't dreaming...but sure enough it was real, this kart was mine! Its some kind of karting god! I walked around the kart, it had never been raced before and had only been built the day before.
I slipped on a race suit, helmet, gloves and boots, and slowly wheeled my kart out onto the dummy grid. I hopped in and slipped down into position, I started the engine using the TAG system, and to the surprise of the surrounding Protrain Team, it started first time. However, the 5 other drivers karts did not start first time but after some serious revving we all got going!
Tomorrow is the race day and today was just practise, we were using the full circuit and by the end of the day I was getting 58.34 seconds, which overall wasn't a bit time considering it was the first time I've ever raced at Rissington. However, there is a corner that gets me nearly every time, its called the Dogleg and causes me to spin pretty much every lap - if I could master the corner I could perhaps shave up to 3 seconds off my lap time.
I'm going to sleep now as I have to be up really early tomorrow to head to the race day! Wish me luck!
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