2006 EVENTS

GO KART CHALLENGE 

STREATHAM KARTWAY

February 5th 2006

The South East Region of the MG Car Club MGF Register

 

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Yes we did take some Fs - Her4's Ricks and Tim's

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The F Team

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We had some young racers !

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Rugby Boys in hair nets - nice!

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Being Briefed
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Rugby Boys - You can tell.

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Getting ready for practice

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Tim with Rick hot on his tail.
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Tony takes the lead

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Tim ready for the track

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Michael wins with David and Lynne just behind.
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Lining up on the start grid

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Rugby Boys again

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Tony, Jon and Jay in front with David, Michael, Rick, Tim and Paul behind

 
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One of these Karts is going the right way

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David, Adrian and Tim

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All the racers together
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Michael, Adrian and Jay on the podium.

 

 

 

 

 The SEF 2006 Go Kart Challange took place at the Streatham Indoor Kartway on the 5th February. An odd place for a track as it takes up half of the Streatham bus garage with buses still going in and out of the other half ! even stranger for Adrian who used to drive buses into here.

We did manage to muster three MGFs between us as you can see in the pictures but Streatham is probably not the best place to park your pride and joy - we did manage to squeeze into the Track area so it wasn't too bad. This years challenge was an individual racer event rather than the endurance team challenge of 2005. This meant that each competitor had some practice laps before taking part in five heats. Positions were then worked out and three finals took place/ The Top seven automatically went into the main final. The three winners of Final C went on to Final B. The Three winners for Final B went into the Grand Final making ten Karts for the ten lap race.

The event was also an MGF vs Rugby Boys competitions when we pitted ourselves against the might of the Ealing and Staines Rugby Teams. With much younger and fitter competition it would be interesting to see which team would come out on top .

Each Heat and final were hotly contested with the marshalls frantically waving warning flags as some Karters thought they were on the Play Station ! I only saw one Kart get black flagged and sent into the pits though. Mostly it was good natured competition with lots of talk in the pits as to bad luck skidding into bends and being hit from behind making people lose their races - all in good spirit of course. 

The time sped by and before long the grand final was over having been hotly contested. Adrian went into the final in pole position and made sure that he kept it that way right through the race despite his claims that "I've never done it before ....honest ". David droppped from 2nd to 9th unfortunately whilst Michael, Tim and Jay kept up one place each from their grid positions.

So to the winners podium - in third place a Rugby Boy - Jay C : In Second place an honorary  Effer -  Michael Noto ; and in first place a real Effer in the form of Adrian "I've never done it before" Clifford !. Well done all.  A little mention for fourth place as well ....as it was me ! A special mention for David as he came out with the fastest lap of the day.

Final positions were :-

1 Adrian C
2 Mike N
3 Jay C
4 Tim M
5 Paul G
6 Rick E
7 Tony P
8 Michelle K
9 David A
10 Jon C
11 Steven L
12 Lee N
13 Michael C
14 Juan M
15 Neil S
16 Chris C
17 Ben A
18 Owen B
19 Simon B
20 Chris W
21 Lynne P
22 Matthew T

         F Team = Yellow                         Rugby Boys = White

Final Team Positions

F Team  155 points  Rugby Boys  98 points

    Well Done Effers !