With the long hot summer behind us and the nights drawing in it is once again time to take to the track for the SG Petch Sprint Championships. As we enter round 6 of 7 in the 2019 season it's all to play for with dropped scores to be taken into account and passions undoubtedly running high.
Round 6 is running on the national circuit without the front D, a favourite of many of the drivers up and down the grid allowing you to carry speed into the long right handed turn 1. This makes the slip stream powerful, even more so if the weather is windy.
Looking at the weather forecast for the race on Sunday, the wind is going to be the least of the worries for most drivers with heavy rain predicted throughout the day. These conditions always present a mixed grid and all manner of incidents with the karts running in slick tyres.
with so many drivers in title contention, anything could happen.
Anything COULD Happen...
As I wrote the intro piece for round 6 last week, I signed off by saying anything could happen. As it turned out, nothing actually happened, the weather had been forcasting heavy rain over the weekend and for once the weather people were right. Round 6 was cancelled!
Leaving home at 8am we had mist & fog but little in the way of rain, the ground was heavy with standing water from the previous night's rainfall however, driving up the A1 there was a lot of spray and a mix of light to heavy rain. On arrival at Teesside Karting there was also light rain but my sense is that it's not the amount of rain that caused the racing to be cancelled, rather the sheer amound of standing water on the circuit.
Here are a handful of pictures from the short amount of time I spent at the track today.
