Round 2 of the junior subaru championship
(BMKR)
This was a coulpe of weeks ago, haven't had a chance to sit down and do some posts etc but here we go.
Saturday pratice day, (20 April)
Team Edg & son had a plan for this weekend to work more on Weight distribution and gearing as we wanted to get into the 51 seconds a lap.
Ciarons best lap in round 1 in March was 52.12 on race tyres.
On test tyres 52.50
So with the new set up, practice day we done 52.00
If all was right we should be in the 51s with our race tyres.
Onto Sunday, Ciaron qualified 13th out of 18 with his times down to 51,76
Race 1 and 2 very similar, with Ciaron down to 12th.
But in the last race it all started to go horribly wrong, the pack was very close, and Ciaron was on a flyer down to 51.57 a lap.
Well I say horrible, the spectators loved the action.....
On lap 3 Ciaron was chasing kart 80 with 2 other karts behind, as they went into turn 5 the kart behind late braked and ended up on the back of Ciarons kart damaging the seat and rear axle but not enough to stop Ciaron.
Ciaron stayed on the power and other kart dropped back off and Ciaron was free to go.
Now I/we thought that was it the race would end with Ciaron dropping down to 16th.
But no Ciaron managed to keep going and court up with the pack and was getting a tow again, down to 15th then 14th, with 2 clean passes Ciaron was free to keep pushing.
Well kart 80 witch he just passed had better ideas, he was using Ciarons tow and trying to get around at each turn, and on the next lap he did but we geared Ciarons kart to be faster out the corners which again with a tow and speed out the corners he got round again, the long way round.
Now kart 80 wasn't having non of that and with both of them side by side into a corner with both rear tyres hitting, they became entangled with each other and spinning out, yellow flags, Marshall runs over and frees them from each other and off they go again.
2nd to last lap, Ciaron was still in front of kart 80 after the incident but kart 80 was after more points, again trying everything he could, into turn 4, kart 80 decided to lunge down the inside and late brake on a 90 degree corner.
He went straight under Ciarons kart breaking his steering and into the tyre wall but OK, Ciaron was airborne by around 2 feet, but again Ciaron managed to drive on, but looking at his time there was a problem and Ciaron was black flagged and into the Paddock he went.
Ciaron was OK and asked if the other lad was OK, which he was just unhappy with the outcome.
We asked Ciaron about the kart and said when the kart landed it landed on the left front first and the was pulling to the right after.
Once back at our trailer we checked the wheel alignment which was out by 2mm but also we couldn't line up the laser hub to hub, which is a chassis issue..
Nothing more would be done as the day was coming to an end.
So the next day at home I stripped the kart back to the chassis and trailered to project one.
Chassis was put on jig and the front was out by 6mm.
10mins later all good and ready for the next race. I was also told that some race teams have there own jigs and jig there karts after each race.
(every tenth of a second counts)
Some how Ciaron wasn't even phased by what happened he just wants to get out and go in round 3 in a couple of week.
Dont think I've but down a spanner since that weekend 🥴
After all that we now have a kart which is like new.
New seat, new rear axle I completely rebuild the kart.
Roll on round 3 🤕😀😁
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