Buckmore Park

http://www.buckmore.co.uk/content.php/000

Was supposed to go for the Praction session sometime in July, but I have to cancel it due to my trip to UK being cancelled. Tough. I booked the Praction on a Friday, and I got the email on the following Monday from my company that my trip has being cancelled.

Anyway, what is a Praction? Well, its a Practise with Tuition given. You pay the same price, go round the track, but you get information on how you are driving etc. I managed to get to Buckmore eventually today, but there were no more Praction or 45 minutes session available anymore, and I had to settle for the 30 minutes session, meaning I lost some monies in the process as the booking is not refundable.

The track is well run, the karts are well maintained and it has metal bumpers which prevent damages to the karts as well as keeping the occupant safer. You could even adjust the seat forward or backward using a lever like in your own car. Wow. May be standard in UK, but from where I came from, where we have to prop cushion, its a wow factor. Before going to the track, you have to arrive 1 hour early to get fitted with driving suit, helmet and your timing device. Then shown a video on the dos and donts. The meaning of flags etc.

Then, it was another 30 minutes of waiting for the other session to finish, before its our turn. I say its really a waste of time waiting for 1 hour.

What can I say, have not driven a 390cc for such a long time, the chassis is really heavy due to the metal bumpers and the stuffs to make the sit move forward and backward, so you don't feel the kick when you accelerate like those in Plentong. Anyway, enjoy the pictures and my timing sheet.

Changes

As stated in the profile. This blog used to be shared by 4 who enjoyed karting. As in anything with life itself, this blog is now only updated by me K[p].

Out of the 4, one has totally dropped out of racing.

I now share a kart (the Gillard) with Des, but with the impending birth of his 2nd child, I dont think I will see him in on the track for sometime to come.

As for the last one, he has decided to setup another blog in July 2008. You can find him at velocita-karting.blogspot.com. You can find more articles on that blog regarding starting to kart in Singapore/Malaysia. I am trying to add that link and others to this blog, you will know when I figured out how to do that.