#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... )

#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... )