Harrys debut IKR race.  Round 2 goes like this. Very proud of him as it was a bit daunting for the both of us,but a big thumbs up for the organisers at rye house for their help, and to other race dads for their mechanic skills that helped us out .  So the first test comes around for the cadets and harry takes to the track and on the second lap his rear bumper bolt snaps going over the red and whites so his bumper is hanging off so he comes into the pits with 3 laps done so panic stations set in and a trip to the shop for a new bolt see us just ready in time for testing session 2 , all be it a bit late going out.  As he’s a novice he starts at the back of the grid but manages to finish the session. Next up session 3 with Harry tearing round managing to get up to 18th out of 30 with less than a second stopping him from getting in the top 10 so all’s going good so far, happy days he’s doing ok. Next up is qualifying and with 5 mins to go and the cadets getting ready to go out he gets the nosebleed from hell, blood everywhere so we think he’s gonna miss qualifying.  We manage to get it stopped and send him out,  late again but straight away he picks up speed and manages to get up to 16th on the grid and the next lap shoots up to 6th fastest, needless to say my heart is beating out of its chest, then all of a sudden he pulls of the track and into the pits to tell me his tyres are slipping all over the place and that’s when my heart sank bless him. He didn’t know he couldn’t go back out on track once he had pulled in so as qualifying went on for next few minuets his position on the grid fell from 6th to 25th so who knows how he would have done as all he was doing was getting faster. So heat one saw him finish 25th and heat 2 he didn’t make the grid as someone span in front of him and as he was rolling backwards their tyres clipped , harry bumped and knocked his ignition switch off and as the marshal’s are not allowed to restart the engines he had to push his kart to the side on the formation lap which meant he would start the final last on the grid of 30. He did manage to get back up to finishing 25 with no penalties so we were more than happy with that.  All in all a fantastic day but with a lot of pressure and stress to get him out on track but cannot wait till Round 3 of the IKR championships next month.

Rye house IKR pre race weekend practice session Monday 7th May 2018 Honda cadets class.

 IKR round 4 rye house 13th May 2018 Honda cadet class. Footage is a bit biased as my son was racing in only his second IKR championship learning his trade as a novice. Enjoy the footage.

 Round 5 IKR Rye House

10th June 2018

Harry hurst in only his third IKR championship continuing to learn.

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