Our new segment - So how was your day....?  Send me a report on how your race day went and I'll include it in our feature.  Here is our first installment.....

So how was your day.....?

Anxious to get off to a good start after the long layoff, I took a half day  Friday to practice and tune the kart.  The day went well and I felt I was close on old tires.  I had new front hubs and rear hubs, mags and tires for race day.  I mounted these before I left the track Friday night.

Practice 1 showed me to be off the pace, the handling with the new hubs and mags was off.  I made adjustments for practice 2 .  After practice 2 on the cool down lap, exiting the horseshoe turn I had a sever vibration then lost my left rear wheel followed by a spin and my right hub lugs shearing as well.  I slid down the track backwards on my new sprocket and chain.  It's amazing how far you can slide with no brakes!

Ok now I trashed my hubs, new mag wheels sprocket and chain.  I switched to a set of mismatched wheels and long hubs (hey it's all I had).  Thanks to all those who pitched in to help!

Qualifying came and went with my kart badly over steering through the horseshoe.  I qualified 9^th out of 15 (way off my Friday practice times).

Heat 1 saw the typical 1^st turn crash and I got held up in the track blockage.  Had a nice race with Greg Perhacs before he motored away.  On the last lap my throttle petal bolt snapped in half and I had just enough throttle to limp to the finish.  OK now you can see how my day was shaping up.  I finished 13^th. But wait there is more drama I was penalized one position for driving outside the punch-off cone at the start.

Heat two no real drama just a poor handling kart.  I moved up to 9^th at the start and gradually worked myself back to 11^th at the finish.

The Main race again saw a crash in turn 1, I was able to get through and emerge in 7^th with a large lead over 8^th place.  I ran several laps in holding the gap between myself and Mike Pringle, when I lost power coming out of the Contino Carousel.  Four drivers passed me before I could get the carb sorted out.  From there it was just slog around waiting for the finish - 12^th place.

Lesson learned - always, no sometimes, no never... yeah that's it.. never try new stuff on race day even though you think it will work, it won't.  Always replace bolts after the season ends and we won't mention the punch-off cone incident!

New for April's Race

A Red Egg will allow the presenter to nullify any technical D.Q. (a get out of jail free card if you like).

A Black Egg will allow a driver to send any competitor to the back of the field for the main race.

A  Green Egg will move the driver up to pole position for the main race.

A  Silver Egg will allow the racer free entrys for the next 5 years

A  Gold Egg will give the driver double points in the pre-mains and main race.

As always we are looking to improve the competition during the races.  We believe looking for eggs and picking these up at full speed will add to the excitement of the day.  It is recommended you hot glue egg cartons over your airbox to hold your eggs.

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