-
12 uur van Utrecht bij de Kartfabrique
My last post was the article on the official site of De Fabrique promoting the 12 hour race. Which I am driving.
I wasn't intending on doing so, but a couple of the regular drivers on sunday nights asked me to join their team. I was pretty honoured, so I'll give it a shot. All of us are pretty clear on the fact that we are not driving for a podium ( Read more... ) -
12 uur van Utrecht bij de Kartfabrique
12 uur van Utrecht bij de Kartfabrique®
Wie, wat, waar?
Plaats van handeling: De Kartfabrique te Utrecht. De datum waarop de mooiste kartwedstrijd van het jaar zal gaan plaatsvinden is 23 en 24 mei. Tientallen coureurs zullen aantreden om met gelijkwaardig materiaal op de prachtige indoor baan van de Kartfabrique gedurende een etmaal op het scherpst ( Read more... ) -
#046 - Formula 1 Malaysia, Qualifying Session (04/04/2009)
#046 - Formula 1 Malaysia, Qualifying Session (04/04/2009)
If there is one thing this qualifying session has brought to people’s attention it has to be the impact of diffusers. A number of the teams have added this to their car to improve the aerodynamics at the back of the car a bit. The interesting thing is that the top six cars in qualifying make ( Read more... ) -
#045 - Formula 1 Australia, Jarno Trulli’s Penalty (03/03/2009)
#045 - Formula 1 Australia, Jarno Trulli’s Penalty (03/03/2009)
The FIA have once again caused for a major failure in their rulings. Following last weekend’s race they were eager to start handing out penalty’s, but as now has come to light, they have misjudged Jarno Trulli’s incident and gave out a penalty without doing the proper research ( Read more... ) -
#044 - Racing Night, Heat 3 (31/03/2009)
#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)
#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)
#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)
#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... ) -
#040 - Berghem Introduction (29/03/2009)
#040 - Berghem Introduction (29/03/2009)
Some time ago Joey proposed the idea to drive a race here in Berghem, together with my father. We all thought it was an awesome idea, but wanted to practive beforehand. However, I discovered last week that the date of the race is April 18th, which is also when I’m seeing McFly again. So: no race then. We ( Read more... )
