2 weeks after the final mr2 championship round at Mallory park where I equalled my personal best result of 3rd in class and 4th overall, I was heading for my home track of silverstone for the 63rd running of the Birkett 6hr relay. I was competing for Dawn gp for the 3rd time in as
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After getting my best result of the season at Donington last time out and winning in the EKL at whilton mill I was keen to keep the run of good form going. Qualifying The Session in general wasn’t too bad I spent most of the time trying to get used to the track again, there
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After the recent Sponsorship announcement of NWC a very strong line up attended their home track Whilton mill and keen to show NWC what they can do! The format for the day was the standard 12 heats race of champions and 2 endurance races. The heats were held on the 850 meter National circuit with
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Having missed Anglesey to save money it was straight back to Donington park for rounds 11/12 Qualifying Having missed the tannoy call for the mr2 championship I was sat right at the back of the pack for qualifying. I decided to bed my new brakes in on lap 1 then back off and find a decent gap.
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The calm period between Castle Combe and Donington was over. We decided to not do the race at Cadwell park due to the championship fight effectivly being over and then being able to put extra funds into the races I was going to do. I did the Super GT races on the Saturday as practice
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A virtually new line up for the knights made the trip to Ellough park, due to a struggle getting the team sorted it was a very inexperienced line up. How ever the team put in plenty of good performances during the races. Drivers were Team Captain Luke Austin, Ian Williams, Richard Olive and Shane Mansbridge.
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Morning Practice The Morning Practice session was a chance for the team consisting of James Fitchew, James Hayden, Dan Underhill and Luke Austin to get their 1st taste of the new Elite karting league karts and for Fitchew, Hayden and Austin it was also their 1st chance to drive the Bayford Meadows track. Underhill went
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So me and my dad crammed in a load of work into a very short space of time between brands hatch and this race at castle combe. The car wasn’t looking perfect but it looked goodenough and it was great to see a load of shocked faces when we rocked up in the paddock. This
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Right So its a little bit behind schedual. but I think that can be forgiven considering whats happend! So the car was fixed just in time to get out and race, she looked just as good as normal and felt just as good as normal on track, I’ve got to thank my dad for the
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The wait for round 1 was finally over! I had planned all along to do the Super GT races in order to get practice on the starts for the sunday races as I felt this was something that helped me last year when I did the heat and therfore had a practice start before the
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