Testing

I recently managed to squeeze a test in at Rye House in between clearing the garden and trying to finish the bathroom - a welcome break!

The weather was extremely hot so the tyres which were just about on there last legs would definately get a work out.
With me was my best mate Vince (grandson of the author of retiredandcrazy.com) and the racer with the best sideburns in karting - Chris Kasch.

We spent the majority of the day changing small aspects of the karts geometry to see if it improved the feel of the kart and I also worked hard at my body positioning, I have recently modified the visor of my helmet so it makes me keep my head up and therefore my shoulders back - the difference this made to rear end grip was astonishing and I learnt a lot and with Chris's help I was able to improve my lines and my consistency - now I just need to go faster!

In terms of lap times i didnt actually improve on my PB but I dont think its quite so easy in testing when you dont have anyone to follow like in a race situation - i'm definately a better racer than I am a qualifier/tester.

What I did manage though is gather a great amount of data from my Mychron4 datalogger so when I have got my head around the software I will compare sessions against each other.

We did manage to find out that my kart is a decent chassis as Mr Sideburns had a session in my kart and immediately put in a bandit lap 9 tenths of a second quicker than me (in my own kart!), was I annoyed? not at all, it means that the kart works and now I just need to work on my driving, easy huh! Just drive faster was the advice I was given...

Vince drove the kart once we had set it up to be driveable, it was the first time he had driven it in the dry and I think by the look on his face he enjoyed himself - I just have to convince him to buy one now...
He steadily improved his times and his lines, he just now needs to be more agressive to improve things further.