#044 - Racing Night, Heat 3 (31/03/2009)

We did a couple of rolling starts during this heat.

A rolling start: “A rolling start is one of two modes of initiating or restarting an auto race; the other mode is the standing start. In a rolling start, the cars are ordered on the track and are led on a certain number of laps (parade or caution laps) at a ( Read more... )

#043 - Racing Night, Heat 2 (31/03/2009)

This was a counter-clockwise heat again. I was still extremely pissed off from last heat, and in no state of motivation. Then it hit me that if I really wanted to be in Linda’s ladies kart team, I would have to put up with it. It’s not like I can fuck up races, if I ever start doing them, just because I’m in ( Read more... )

#042 - Racing Night, Heat 1 (31/03/2009)

This was the first heat of the night. It went terrible. About five minutes in I got so pissed off that I was just waiting for the heat to end. I never blame the kart when a heat just doesn’t work out, because I think you just have to deal with it, but I really couldn’t do anything to improve. I was lacking so ( Read more... )

#041 - Berghem Results (29/03/2009)

We did two heats in total. The first one.. let’s just call it a warming up. The first things I noticed were how different the lapsed time between hitting the brake and the actual braking were from what I was used to, and ditto with the steering. Unfortunately for me, I discovered this while attempting to make a ( Read more... )

#040 - Berghem Introduction (29/03/2009)

Some time ago Joey proposed the idea to drive a race here in Berghem, together with my father. We all thought it was an awesome idea, but wanted to practive beforehand. However, I discovered last week that the date of the race is April 18th, which is also when I’m seeing McFly again. So: no race then. We ( Read more... )

#036 - Racing Night (24/03/2009)

The first heat was just a bit of warming up, no special tasks we had to perform or anything. Second heat: counter clockwise! It went okay, with a time of 49,231.

Oh and just to make you jealous: yesterday was Victor’s birthday, he works at De Fabrique, and I told him to bring me a piece of cake if he had any left. It ( Read more... )

#035 - Onbeperkt Karten (22/03/2009)

This night’s Onbeperkt Karten brought me oh-so-much joy! I’ve hit a new milestone, because.. tonight I drove my first 47!

The night started out slowly; we were in a heat with a bunch of loons. They thought they were supposed to be bumping into each other and even included me in their insane actions. This pissed me ( Read more... )

#034 - Racing Night (10/03/2009)

The whole day I’d been looking forward to Racing Night, but my dad wasn’t sure he wanted to go. Then I got the idea to bring a friend along, which would be so much fun! Luckily Fanny was willing to sacrifice her evening to go karting with me!

She wasn’t planning on actually driving, as she explained to me, but I ( Read more... )

#033 - Woot, this made my night! (17/01/2009)

Today was Racing Night again, which I went to even though I also went to Onbeperkt Karten on Sunday, haha. Heat 1 was just warming up and I didn't really do anything spectacular - I thought. My times weren't as good as on my better days of karting, but I still had a 48,4 and beat 3 of the suits (Yay!)! ( Read more... )

#031 - Onbeperkt Karten (18/01/2009)

The Sunday after I went karting at Coronel - 18th Jan - my dad was feeling sickish, so he didn't want to go karting. I did. I didn't want to go alone again, so I dragged along my brother. I failed to check beforehand what age you need to be to kart there, so we had a slight situation there. My brother just turned ( Read more... )