Well, I got the 'new' engines on and sorted the kart as best I could for the race, but I did not get a chance to test after putting the engines and new stub-axles on. Consequently, how the whole package performed would be a mystery to me...
The engines were not too bad, but not a strong as my old ones - I'll have to do some work on them. What was of more concern was the handling. We were racing on a set of tyres that had already done about five hours, but I would have expected the handling to be better. We changed a few settings, but still suffered from bad oversteer throughout qualifying and the race.
I decided to leave Robert out for as long as possible during qualifying so that he got used to the kart, and not worry about grid position. We therefore qualified 11th out of 12 karts.
In the race things were not quite as bad and I made my way up to eighth and held this until lap 31 when the left-hand engine developed a mis-fire. I pitted and after clearing the offending carb's main jet, rejoined dead last and eight laps down. From then on we were at the mercy of other teams faltering, and this happened to a couple of teams and we ended up 10th at the flag.
On route I set a lap time of 53.47, about a second off the winner's fastest lap.
All the results and lap times can be found on MyLaps.com - use this link to go there:- http://www.mylaps.com/results/newResults.jsp?id=568274
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