Hi guys, i'm racing rentals at Whilton Mill in Daventry tomorrow morning/midday and I figured if anyone's in the area and you want to head down and talk LFS & racing, have a drink and generally hang out for a bit then head on down.

This is the event i'm racing in http://performanceindustrykart.co.uk/

It's the usual corporate 2 hour enduro deal with a load of guys who think they know how to drive fast and me. ( That can be read several ways for a very deliberate reason ).

Anyway, just figured i'd invite any yokel/local Northamptonshire folk down whilst i'm in the area.

cool. I'm the one in bright red You know, the colour Schumacher stole from me

EDIT: I've not raced there before so i'm not expecting to be on lap record pace or anything. There's a couple of experienced hands in the field and it's a team event so i'll be just happy to come away in a trophy position.

You won't see me 'in action' but you can see me race... Although I'm playing down my chances the truth is I do really want to win.

One of my team mates back when I was doing enduro's died recently and it turns out in order to dedicate a race victory to somebody first you have to go out and win the race, so I'm pretty fired up!

I also know I'm up against someone who did the Dubai 24, which is about the biggest race in endurance karting, angainst a full field of petrol heads, and I'm racing in a team of office workers.

i guess that meens I'll have to go really very fast then.

That's the same place as we had the LFS meet quite a few years back!

Awesome fun. IIRC it was the 1st big LFS meet, and Tristan arranged it. It is the one and only time I've managed to join in.

Let us know how it goes. Pics and Vids are required!

Well I dont have any pics or vids personally, it is a very interesting track - made more-so by the inclement weather which provided wet but drying conditions throughout the race.

Practice was pretty much awash and after one of my team mates had some difficulty finding the pit entrance I only had about 3 laps of it, I qualified the kart in second with a hotlap that involved a spin. I still barely knew what direction to turn in when my team made the decision to start me first because I appeared to be quick.

Ahead of me was Mercedese HPE, the guys who build the F1 engines, and he was quicker which meant I pushed harder than I should have and I ran out of skill at the end of lap 1 and dropped to fourth. I quickly retook 2nd however but the lead was gone.

We had a compulsory 9 pit stop race, so no sooner was I getting a handle on which way to turn and where I could brake in the conditions then I was coming into the pits to change driver.

I next took over the kart in 5th position about 50 minutes into the race. It was still very wet. I absolutely handed the field a royal ass thrashing and was taking Zulu flat out. I did the first sub minute lap time of the day, around 10-15 second a lap faster than anyone else on the track at the time.

I brought the kart back in in 2nd position about 20 seconds down on Mercedese HPE.

Toward the end of the race to make the number of stops up I did another little stint, in which I got to deliver a signed and sealed "i'm really very quick you know" overtake to the Merc driver who was quicker than me at the start when I was still learning the track.

Final result was 2nd, I didnt get fastest lap because I wasn't out at the end, but my times where really not very far off what the guys out at the end where doing.

I'm really very proud of how quick I was, by the end of the day my team of office workers where a good solid team of drivers. Actually one of my bosses was particularly quick and not far behind me on pace. The other guys in the team did enough to maintain our target which was to finish in a trophy position.

Of course i'd really have liked to have won, not least because this was my first time out since my old team mate from my enduro karting days died recently, but all in i'm quite happy with a 2nd position that turned a lot of heads and earned a lot of respect within an industry that is by all accounts a butch male dominated arena of testosterone.

Oh no worries. I had a great time, although every return to the race track i've done in the last few years is something of a bitter pill because I get reminded of how much I really miss it, i'd love to be racing regularly again. I want to race, I live and breath it through every part of my being and I hunger to be out there racing but I'm broke with nothing to sacrifice so this is the way it is.