24/08/2022
🟢24 Hour Report🟢
It didn’t start well. With 2 weeks notice the team who were to support us pulled out. Luckily we were able to switch to use JZ Racing’s 7 Kart.
The team arrived on Wednesday, we knew this would be a big challenge, including running our own kart, lack of track time and for some drivers, no track knowledge
Grabex helped get the kart race ready. We went out on Thursday and all felt very comfortable and on Friday we just ran some practice stops for the pits.
Saturday was soon upon us. Alex went out in the rain for qualifying. We had a major issue, one of the clutches decided to give up, leaving us with no choice but to bring the kart in for repairs.
Zack started the race in P30 and made a couple of positions by turns 1 and 2, but a few spinners in front of him left him with nowhere to go, he was forced off into the gravel and we dropped to the back of the grid,79th.By the end of his sting we were back to P38 and there was still 22 hours ahead
Stint by stint we pulled back positions, and a great finish in class looked possible. Up in P17 though, it all went wrong when unfortunately when Tom was doing his first stint the sprocket decided to shred itself. After a 22 minute pit stop to change this, we came back out in P69 but back up to P28
Ami had a great stint in the evening, keeping pace with everyone and gained a few positions. Great driving as always
We were back out and back on pace straight away, then the rain came….
Beau asked to double stint at midnight, just as the heavens opened. He did over 3 hrs 30 and was consistently one of the quickest on track. Josh followed and was also quickest on track. Two awesome stints
Alex then went out in the now torrential rain and very low visibility
Team captains were called to a meeting when it was decided that the race was going to be red flagged
So we finished an awesome 10th in Clubman Class and 22nd Overall
We would like to thank
James, Dave, Stuart and Mark, without them we wouldn’t have been able to compete and it allowed us to focus on racing.
Big thanks also to GRABEX RACING, without them we couldn’t have raced and
Rob from 7Kart UK Limited for sorting things out for us too.
See you all at the 2023 24 Hour!😁
Teesside Karting
24 Hour Karting Series
