The Howells Championship 2014

Our first event this year was on March 30th at Clay Pigeon Kart track for a sprint, our first one. The track is very twisty as would be expected, and we are still not sure whether or not we like it!  Still it was good weather and a warm up for us and the new engine/gearbox and we had some fun sliding round the corners.. it would be interesting in the wet!

April 26/27 saw a very wet weekend at Wiscombe Park hill climb and the first proper test of the engine. All was going really well and the track wasn't too bad, Alex got very close to last year's personal best on Saturday afternoon.  On his last run the jet fell out of one of the Stromberg carbs, luckily falling on to the custom belly pan and not onto the track until he got to the top finish paddock.  Having found the jet he refitted it and Jenny got her final run.

Having made steps to prevent it coming out again, we started on Sunday but soon realised that the carbs were out of balance and we couldn't better 63 seconds.    The final run was cancelled because of the muddy/slippery state of the paddock, it was only a matter of time before a car slid into another, or worse into a pedestrian. Getting out and loaded up and away from the site was organised in batches so we were pretty much first away being in the first batch.  The quickest we've ever loaded the Imp on to the trailer and packed away the stuff in the van!

The carbs are being checked out, and hopefully the car will be running better for Werrington hill climb this weekend.

You can find a couple of videos from Wiscombe on YouTube:
Jenny final run Sunday:  http://youtu.be/GomQBB05lxc
Alex fastest run Saturday: http://youtu.be/B1dNTTFTHTM

The score in the Howells Championship to date is Alex 2 - Jenny 1.

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