No racing

Last weekend just before his second race, Ethan broke his arm playing football.  After a day in A&E last Saturday Ethan was most dissapointed to discover he wont race for the next six weeks.  As it is his right arm he was planning to get away with some schoolwork too but the teachers have made him write with his left arm!

Ethan will be two races behind most of his other novice friends when he returns to the track in May and they have already improved their laptimes on his.  It is a dissapointing setback to his first year racing but Ethan has always loved a challenge and we have no doubt he will progress quickly when he gets back into his kart.

On a more positive note it has given us the chance to start converting the new van into something that will suit us.  So we have decided to concentrate on that for the coming weeks. 

To race or not to race!

We were faced with a difficult decision for this weekend.  To race or not to race!  Ethan is keener than ever to get racing and we knew of a race this weekend in Glan Yr Gors North Wales.  Ethan would have happily gone however as he is on his novice plates we thought it would be better to practice and keep getting those laptimes down before going further afield.

If we raced constantly over the next few months Ethan would be off his black plates in no time, but this does mean he will be alot further forward on the grid when racing (ie in front of other novices) This may not be to his advantage as he is not at a level yet to be able to compete with any of the front runners.

So the plan is to race again at Llandow on the 20th March and in the meantime get plenty of practice in to improve the laptimes.

In other news we also bought a larger van this week, hoping to convert it to a small motorhome for us all to travel to races when needed.  It may be a bit of a squeeze but I am sure we will enjoy our travels in it.  Will post a picture soon.