Jeff Wiltshire

The results from yesterdays very wet Karting Event at Rye House

Position.............Team..............Laps
1....................Rusty Nuts........162
2....................Team Weave........160
3....................Floyd's Faries....156
4....................Dave Harbridge....152 Fastest Lap (54.44)
5....................TT Trashers.......150
6....................Team Silly (DTS)..147
7....................No Idea Racing....144
8....................Moove!............140
9....................Holtenders........137
10...................The Appletree.....133
11...................Minardi-Gras......122
12...................Wacky Racers......116
13...................Team Matrix.......103


A good time (appeared) to be had by all....P1Fantic didn't come 12th.....Pete Croney looked like a drowned Rat ....I produced the biggest wave of the day after hitting a puddle/lake going into Stadium Bend following Dave T-S....Hoppy Jnr didn't get fastest lap, that 'honour' went to Bob Parry in Dave Harbridge's team...John Felstead's team lost their brakes....Hoppy Jnr lost a chain...And we came 2nd


Jeff

P1Fanatic

Apologies for my teams retirement but my two team mates werent man enough to hack the wet. Bit gutted as we were 5th at one stage and I did a 1hr15min stint with every weather condition possible (including hailstones) and all for nothing

Why we didnt get wet tyres I dont know as they had a load of blue karts behind the pit area with them on.

Jeff Wiltshire

Simon

Wet tyres = £££££ and wear out quickly when used on a drying track. You can do a set of wets in 5 laps in the dry and they cost £100+ for a set. I didn't realise that you'd retired, sorry your team mates couldn't take a little (!) rain.


Jeff

Scoobychick

iTrader: (1)

Apologies for not turning up but we were out drinking till the early hours Saturday and were capable of nothing more than slobbing on the sofa in the dry watching the GP and Superbikes yesterday

Sal

Pete Croney

I'm tempted to get the guys at work here to throw 10 buckets of ice cold water at me, just so I can relive the experience

Massive fun and thanks for putting it together Jeff.

We even managed to finish with all wheels attached to our kart, this time.

Jeff Wiltshire

Pete = Top Man....gets my vote for nutter of the day !

IanW

Top day yesterday, was deffinatly 'interesting' along that back straight in the wet!

Cheers for organising it Jeff!

Ian - looking forward to a nice quiet day in the office.

johnfelstead

Jon and I lived up to our name as TTTrashers by trashing 3 karts during the race. Jon broke a wheel in the practice too.

Refueling, the engine start buggered up so we swapped karts.
Brakes failed totally at the end of the fastest straight so Jon ended up in the kitty litter/bariers AGAIN
We swapped a third time and i cant remember why? LOL We ended the race in the kart we started it in.

I got spraying the pitlane with mud down to a tea by the end. One of the funiest moments was getting changed after the race and i was chatting with someone, he said "who was the nutter in kart 9?"
Ermmm, that was me. LOL

Brilliant fun, i enjoyed every second of it.

Thanks to Dave and Carolyn TS for putting me up the night before too, I was a little bit groggy in the morning but the first lap soon woke me up

davyboy

Top fun indeed

I enjoyed driving home commando!!

Jeff Wiltshire

Davyboy.....more information than I required.....

Jeff

[Edited by Jeff Wiltshire - 27/05/2002 11:20:14]

johnfelstead

you werent alone in that dave, what choice was there?

I drove about 700 miles this Sat/Sun with doing the rally in south wales then Karting, add to that about 80 laps in a kart. Not bad, beats watching TV.

P1Fanatic

LOL - I totally forgot to take any spare clothes. So wore my race suit with just my boxers and t-shirt underneath. On the way back went commando, had no dry socks and had to borrow a t-shirt.

johnfelstead

fleece, jeans and trainers were the only things remotely dry for me.

Floyd

iTrader: (9)

My vote goes to John F for the most attacking driving style May I remind you that it wasn't a rally forest type stage event!

I took my own waterproofs which kept me reasonably dry apart from my feet. LOL at the £5 weather proofs they supplied, Hoppy jnr's crotch split and had to sit in a puddle all the race. te he.

Who was that 2 man team 'Rusty Nuts', were they scoobynetters?

Davyboy, why you no come and speak to me???

F

Hoppy

Thanks, Jeff. Floyd's fairies had a great day. I enjoyed it more than most because I managed not to do any driving

Rusty Nuts were very quick. Not a Scooby team, I think, but two local guys? One of them used to race Inter-Continental A karts (100cc 2-strokes pulling 18,000rpm ) and was a lesson in smooth driving.

Team Weave - we'll have you next time!

And Hoppy Junior would like to reassure an anxious nation that he would have had the fastest lap if he'd been out in the dry and was quickest in the final hour

Cheers guys. And thanks Floyd

Richard and Hoppy Jnr

Dave T-S

Thanks to Jeff for organising it...so I got you with my anti tailgater manouevre eh?

Thanks to Pete and Craig for not giving up. Pete came in to swop drivers - "i'm enjoying myself so i'll stay out" - 30 seconds later - hail like shrapnel hehehe Pete gets the "drowned rat" award.....

I tried to nobble Felstie with drink the night before but the bu99er still finished ahead of us.... - it's the tequila/JD/red wine cocktail for you next time matey....

johnfelstead

Bugger, i got Saturday and Sunday mixed up again. I had a right good laugh, I must have the record for warnings without being pulled in, i got 6 in one stint.

Hoppy jnr was awesome to watch, i was using some of his lines after a while but the corner onto the pit straight was reserved exclusively for splashing the onlookers, i got the pit exit marshal big style on one lap.

Dave T-S

PS - I seem to remember I posted "there will be showers on Sunday" on the original thread around last Thursday.....HA!

johnfelstead

All i can say is thank god i didnt get to your place till 10pm Dave.

johnfelstead

and we had the TTTrashers pit babe/brolley babe Rainey with us.

[Edited by johnfelstead - 27/05/2002 22:10:13]

Jeff Wiltshire

Floyd

Rusty Nuts where a local team (non-scoobynetters) brought in to boost the numbers up.


Jeff

Jeff Wiltshire

I've just re-read the results and realised that Team Weave where a whole 4 laps up on Floyds Fairies.....[Smug Mode On]

Dave T-S....I had expected you to head towards the Apex (like everyone else was doing apart from Rusty Nuts & Hoppy Jnr) at Stadium where the plan was to pass you round the outside....bit of a shock when I realised that you where using the same line as I was = Big Splash + Tyre barrier !

Big thank you to John F for all the washing out of Sparco bags I had to do this morning 'cos they where covered in mud from his showboating

Glad people seem to have enjoyed themselves in-spite (or because) of the weather.....


Jeff

Dave T-S

Jeff

I found early on, the fastest line was round the outside I wish I had had rear view mirrors and seen the look on your face when you had nowhere to go LOL

Jeff Wiltshire

Dave

Iridium Visor, no-one can see you panic


Jeff

johnfelstead

Jeff, use your noggin, taking your pristine sparco bag outside and placing it next to a bloody big muddy puddle that had "drive through me sideways" written all over it wasnt such a clever idea.

Mine stayed inside in the dry, it's still nice and shiny on the outside. Sopping wet inside from my overalls though.

Yesterday was about having a giggle, and i did.

P.S [shaggy]It wasnt me![/shaggy]

[Edited by johnfelstead - 27/05/2002 14:08:21]

Jane the Dane

Thanks for organising it Jeff! Even though it was a pretty wet day I enjoyed my time out on the track. There was a lot of good spins which made it fun for the spectators.

Davyboy wasn't the only one that had to drive home commando . Not much dry cloths and no dry shoes or socks afterwards.

Thanks for a fun day.

Jane The Dane


[Edited by Jane the Dane - 27/05/2002 15:04:16]

Jeff Wiltshire

Did someone take photos of the event ? I thought I say someone on the balconey with a camera.

John...Stuff gets knicked at Kart Tracks...

Jane


Jeff

Little Miss WRX

Thanks for organsing the event Jeff, expect me at the next one

Mutant_matt, all I can say is............we beat you

Loadsa sideways moments, just an awesome day

Michelle.

Floyd

iTrader: (9)

Jeff, that means if we can remove the non-scoobynetters (Rusty Nuts)from the race (disqualify as they're not in the club)then Floyd's Fairies came second, hurrah!

I'll be round to collect the trophy then

F

Jeff Wiltshire

'Chelle

Glad you had a good time, hope that the injury didn't play up too much



Jeff