go-karting

0830 Received a phonecall from Jeremy to see if I might be interested in coming along go-karting after church. Absolutely! I know how much trouble it is to organise a group, so if somebody else has organised it, I'm happy to come along for the ride . . .

. . .the weather was looking a little cloudy, but none of us expected the torrential downpour we received, an entire month's worth of rain on one day, over 40mm! Fortunately, it didn't start raining immediately, so our warm up and qualifying laps were in the dry. After our first race, it really started to bucket down, so the owners asked if we'd like to stop and get refunded for the remaining laps, or continue on. Since we were already all wet, the majority voted to continue, the girls however decided to stay inside. We were drifting around corners, and unfortunately (or otherwise) the karts differed ever so slighlty in both their speed and handling, so how one performed from one race to the next would not necessarily be the same. The whole idea of reversing the direction of the steering while fish tailing around the corner to control the kart worked part of the time, as the outside edge of the track had a lot more grip than the inside, it sometimes caused the karts to spin out in the most spectacular fashion :)

It was a great day, apart from getting saturated and covered in mud, I think anyone who's ever been karting knows not to wear good clothes. But hey, the rain made it all that much more fun! A view from above :D