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so, at the grand old age of 37 (for a few weeks anyway) i've been seeking some excitement and hopefully some socialisation.
I've always had somewhat of an active background but mostly focussed around martial arts rather than racing. I've done the odd Kart session, couple of iron mans, couple of corperate things, certainly nothing major.
Last year, I had my hip replaced which means the end of martial arts for me, and i've struggled to find anything else that really fits in around normal life. I enjoy cycling but group rides are normally during the weekend and being as I've got a 3 year old who for some reason quite likes spending time with me (he'll learn) it makes that hard to organise. Plus, I look a tit in Lycra!
So after looking through probably every sport, seeing what's local and workable, and allowable with the hip, I've come to Karting. We've a great local track being Ellough, so that's the new home away from home.
They run an open grand prix, and that's my immediate aim.
With this in mind, I booked an instructor session, just to get an idea of where I am, where I can improve and how i'm going to fare in their league.
had a great instructor, who certainly could have overtaken me at any point and left with a good deal of things to work on. But also, with some more enthusiasm for the upcoming league matches.
My debut will be September 26th, and apparently my times would put me in the middle somewhere which is great, nice place to be I think.
I'm hoping to spend all of next year in this league (it refreshes in January) I don't really expect to be getting up there with the leaders, but hopefully i'll be able to hold my own in the middle of the group.
As I said above, my lad is 3 (4 soon) which gives me a year to get some further experience before hopefully getting him into Bambino. Whether this be by getting him his own cart and us spending time doing testing, or something else - will have to learn more in that regard.
My longish term goals would be to compete in club100, I think that's an achievable goal. For him though we'll just see what happens, I'd really like to find a series that we can both take part (not at the same time of course) i.e. if there's a bambino/cadet series that runs on the same day as senior. Meaning I can have a bash at seniors then watch him in the younger carts.
If we stick to it long term I really love the look of F1000 single seaters, but I'm a long way off in terms of ability in making that viable and in reality, I think trying to support the laddo karting would be hard if I were to do something completely different.
so, at the grand old age of 37 (for a few weeks anyway) i've been seeking some excitement and hopefully some socialisation.
I've always had somewhat of an active background but mostly focussed around martial arts rather than racing. I've done the odd Kart session, couple of iron mans, couple of corperate things, certainly nothing major.
Last year, I had my hip replaced which means the end of martial arts for me, and i've struggled to find anything else that really fits in around normal life. I enjoy cycling but group rides are normally during the weekend and being as I've got a 3 year old who for some reason quite likes spending time with me (he'll learn) it makes that hard to organise. Plus, I look a tit in Lycra!
So after looking through probably every sport, seeing what's local and workable, and allowable with the hip, I've come to Karting. We've a great local track being Ellough, so that's the new home away from home.
They run an open grand prix, and that's my immediate aim.
With this in mind, I booked an instructor session, just to get an idea of where I am, where I can improve and how i'm going to fare in their league.
had a great instructor, who certainly could have overtaken me at any point and left with a good deal of things to work on. But also, with some more enthusiasm for the upcoming league matches.
My debut will be September 26th, and apparently my times would put me in the middle somewhere which is great, nice place to be I think.
I'm hoping to spend all of next year in this league (it refreshes in January) I don't really expect to be getting up there with the leaders, but hopefully i'll be able to hold my own in the middle of the group.
As I said above, my lad is 3 (4 soon) which gives me a year to get some further experience before hopefully getting him into Bambino. Whether this be by getting him his own cart and us spending time doing testing, or something else - will have to learn more in that regard.
My longish term goals would be to compete in club100, I think that's an achievable goal. For him though we'll just see what happens, I'd really like to find a series that we can both take part (not at the same time of course) i.e. if there's a bambino/cadet series that runs on the same day as senior. Meaning I can have a bash at seniors then watch him in the younger carts.
If we stick to it long term I really love the look of F1000 single seaters, but I'm a long way off in terms of ability in making that viable and in reality, I think trying to support the laddo karting would be hard if I were to do something completely different.
