Club Champs Round 3 (Clubsport 120)
16 September 2011
What a wonderful day! The forecast was for rain but the rain didn’t turn up till the chequered flag came out on the last race. How’s that for good luck?
Well with 21 karts on the track and everyone wanting to be up front there was bound to be a few incidents. And sure enough, with a little bit of over enthusiastic driving we did have a few nasty comings together. Pretty much every race in fact! I think we may need to have a Racket drivers meeting before the next round and come up with a gentleman’s agreement re making space and driving to our abilities. Maybe Shaun- our Raket Patron - would like to jack this up?
Any way enough of the grumbling, there were some stand out moments: Quin Clark (ex stock car driver) surprised us all by moving through the field very quickly, this guy has skills and is someone to watch out for. Shaun drove perfectly as he always does to take the Round win, well done! John Paddy took no prisoners and one race win that I could remember, pretty good for an old fellow. Cranny was a late inclusion to the meeting and showed us some good speed, he adapted his Porsche driving skills to raket driving, all the while making changes to Andrew Managh’s kart. Good job! Peter Sarjeant showed awesome consistency and good pace, Sarje gave Peter Dicks a run for his money, (you have to be pretty good to do that!) Peter Dicks was, however running in a new set of second hand tyres and he said it took a while to scrub the ‘Blossom’ off them. Andy Apperley got to grips with the handling of his Intrepid showed bravery, not lifting off on the quick corners. Al dusted off his kart and was on the pace right away.
All in all a great days racing.
Henri Ham 60
Unconfirmed Club Champ standing after 3 of 4 rounds:-
1
st Shaun Clark(16 points), 2
nd Peter Dicks(35 points), 3
rd Peter Sarjeant(37 points)
