Our base and pit wall as it is at moment still a few tweeks to go

Chris Roe :- Well what can we say, its only just after 11pm and we have suffered 2 faulty carbs, one faulty engine and one engine has fallen out !!! All have been replaced but having just finished my stint it felt like a clutch is now playing up, what a day... Can the person with the voodoo doll please stop pushing pins in it as its getting past a joke !!!
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Chris Roe :- Well not the best of starts the kart is quite a bit off the pace but were hoping to hang on well until we can check it out at service, just had a red flag situation where a kart was engulfed in a fire ball but thankfully the driver appears to be ok and walked away. Bobs now in the driving seat and the red flag fell as we came out of the pits so we didn't loose any time
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was looking fairly good this morning the track has dried up alot even though it was raining most of the night, although there is still a few puddles here and there it should dry with the karts on track. well that is until next time it rains anyway.

Chris Roe :- Well morning has come and not long till the start of qualifying and practice, the weathers looking dry for now, good luck too all the SDMC teams let's hope we all have a good race
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night night

It is now 1:25 am on race day the rain has started coming down again after a short respite. (hopefully the race suit will be dry for the start of the race) We have had a good meal and a laugh with judy les and simon tonight while relaxing in the sdmc motorhomes. we get our race karts at 7:30 in the morning so it is now time for some shut eye before the alarm goes of at 6:30 as this might be the last sleep we get untill sunday night

After most of the day watching the owner drivers practising myself an Chris (team a) decided to get out and have a practise in the wet , which I am glad we did just to remind ourselves what it was like in the soaking wet conditions. Chris went first for half an hour and did a good job looking stable and solid times. I then went next and noticed how slow the private karts were in the wet but they sailed past on the straights. After weighing in our team is plus 1 lap at  the start . So should be set for a good race

kart 10 team sdmc 2 race hire

team c have been out practising in there kart first to go out was A bishop who at the first corner went straight into the gravel trap so had to come back to the pits and get the car checked out. C peacock went out next and was finding the car very twitchy and was stugging to keep up to the standard hire karts who were out there having some wet practise.

Race weekend finally here today we go for weigh in and sign on. And all owner driver karts and race karts can go for free practise.

Just come down to Ahmed's restaurant with Chris roe for a tbone steak to build the energy and weight up. Bob mckenzie has injured his back but hoping it will hold out. Ahmed Sabir  has had problem fitting into there race kart as it only has small seats. Dave brownridge had had to get the race kart pedals adjusted as he couldn't reach them.

Pit wall and camp area

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Setup of our campsite is complete just tidy things up tomorrow to finalize pit area is set up also. A big thankyou to Ahmed Dave and Colin for helping and les who came along to bring caravan for evening

Chris :- I'm glad to see the sun finally appear today as I was starting to wonder how exciting sitting in a wet kart seat for 8 hours would be :-( hope it stays fine for the race
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just had news from the track due to heavy rain track is flooded they are pumping and trying to brush the water away as it is at the moment hopeully they will be able to sort it so we can use the full circuit. i am going down shortly to take equipment to the circuit and set up

well it is set up day and it is raining quite consistently and the forcast doesnt look good for the weekend wih strong winds and heavy rain. Wonderful not

All my gear is now packed up ready to go. Helmet with both visors clean spare gloves and boots with wet suit in case it rains. Helmet cam and radios all charged up,Back up pit board ready.  Clock and radio for kart ready to bolted on
  Also have sdmc banners gazebos for living and pit area with lighting some seating.  Getting exited now

Team b have a standby to do some stints which maybe available if decided they want to go back to a 5 man team after they had a pull out last month so were left a man down and had to share the stints out

Team c are struggling to get there rota set up nothing seems to be equaling up on paper but calculations say it should work fine

update kart numbers

I have just had confirmation from the kart track we have our numbers allocated, for team 1 it is no 61 team 2 is 62 and team 3(race hire) is no 10.
  As it stands at the moment there are 74 entries which are
Owner drivers  30
Club karts        10
Race hire         3 (team c)
Standard hire   31 (team 1 and 2)

D brownridge and myself have just spent the last two hours resurrecting the three gazebos we used last year which got destroyed in the heavy winds, not perfect but usable now  and at least we will have a bit of shelter

Breaking news
Ahmed Sabir from team c has hurt his ARM while trying to move a washer, he is hoping it will be better for race weekend (next week)  

1 week to go

It is just over a week to go now but next Thursday we will be there setting up our camp. Then on Friday we get weighed in and can do testing and on Saturday we have testing and qualifying before the race starts at midday for a gruelling 24hr hrs. But before that team c have to go down and check there pro kart out for size etc and get fitted in to the right size seat, but that might be awkward as there is a large difference in size from C Fish and A Sabir to the likes of A Bishop in there team.
Everyone is really looking forward to the event now but the nerves and tension will start to build up soon

Testing comms Have gone fairly well today just making a few teaks here and there

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29/7th/2011

Team 2 have now dropped down to 4 drivers with Martin Hodgson having to pull out due to work commitments  and team 3 have to rethink there strategy due to fuel tank issues. Team 1 however have no wories and are fine tuning there strategy and equipment

It is just over 2 months for the 2011 British 24hr karting enduro race at teesside autodrome as in previous years SDMC have 3 teams running. But this time team c who struggled last year have gone for a triple upgrade to try and get a better result by getting a pro kart while the top 2 teams for last year stick with the lower speck karts.
Team 1 for this year only have three drivers and they are Steve Allan, Bob Mckenzie and Chris Roe.
Team 2 have 5 drivers Jason Smith, Attilla Sabir, Martin hodgson, Martin Peacock,(plus 1 spare space if u want to in join please contact C Peacock or myself)
Team 3 (the pro kart)have 5 drivers they are Colin Peacock, Dave Brownridge, Andy Bishop,
Ahmed Sabir, Chris Fish