Between races I installed a new fuel tank, fuel filters, fitted a new axle and bearings, tuned the engines and serviced the brakes. The latter was probably a mistake, as we had major problems in the race with the brake disk binding on the caliper due to the caliper moving on the axle. This has now been sorted for the next race with countersunk grub screws through the bearing inners onto the axle...
Due to the problems with the brake we could only qualify 9th out of 10 karts.
Andrew took the start and moved into 7th. He took 6th on lap 60 when another team hit problems, but dropped back to 7th as another team recovered from a poor start.
He maintained 7th until the handover, but his pace was dropping due to the binding brake.
I took over and soon had problems with the brake and a misfire. Despite all the fuel system changes we had yet again picked up a blockage in the right hand carb - or so we thought!
After adjusting the brake and changing the carb I rejoined the race - dead last. The kart now seemed great as long as I was turning right. The engines were pulling fantastically round these bends, but round left handers one of them was coughing and spluttering and losing me loads of time. Another trip to the pits and about to change the carb yet again when I noticed that the kill switch wiring on the right hand engine had come out and was shorting on the casing. This was sorted easily and I went back out and the last 15 minutes of the race was brilliant. I unlapped us from the kart which had posted the fastest lap (albeit with a faster driver) and was flying.
Its just a shame the kart wasn't like that for the whole race.....
Just for the record, we finished last (10th) 28 laps down on the leader, but having lost at least 24 of those in the pits.
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