
Last night was the final endurance kart race of the season. I've been running the endurance races at
G Force Karts in Richmond the last few years. It is a 2 hour team race. 3 or 4 drivers per team race for 2 hours and the team with the most laps wins. The finish has been amazingly close after the 2 full hours of racing. Quite a few times we were battling teams on the last lap of the race. I think last month the 2nd place team was just a few seconds behind first when the raced finished, and they passed the 4th and 3rd place teams on the last few laps as well. So it gets exciting as the race unfolds. You are required to do 3 pit stops and driver changes. Therefore a team of 4 drivers will have each driver race once. In a two hour race that means you are doing 30 minute stints per driver. If you have ever raced karts before you know that it can be quite intense and physical. 30 minutes of solid racing in a kart is a lot without stopping. Usually the next day I have an open sore on my leg and back from the forces pushing me against the seat of the kart. But I'm a professional and it's just part of the job.
Lately we have been confusing our competitors by changing our team name each race. At first we were usually the less then successful F1 team called "Super Aguri". Then we were "Force India". Then we found out about such former teams as "Life" and "Andrea Moda". Those are two F1 teams whose cars never even finished a race, let alone place
My team, Team Minardi for this race, ended up 3rd last night. That is a good finish for us. The top teams have some fast drivers that are able to knock out very consistent fast laps during the full 2 hours.
Here are the results from within my team that Tony compiled:
Fast lap times:
Dustin 25.055
Kevin 25.069
Tony 25.106
Howard 25.278
Avg lap times:
Dustin 25.282
Kevin 25.303
Tony 25.439
Howard 25.813
Avg over top 50 laps:
Dustin 25.163
Kevin 25.223
Tony 25.288
Howard 25.790
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