Cheers Graham, especially for the £10 offer

£10 isn't too bad actually. Silverstone was £10, even if Sim & Jo picked up mine and Ian's bill indirectly

Ok, I've ordered the tickets for me, Gav, Graham, Dave L and Kev.

You can either give me £20 on the day, or PayPal me £20.88 (sadly, thats the cost of accepting a PayPal transaction ). I don't mind either way, but I would prefer PayPal so I'm not a walking cash machine at Knockhill I do appreciate the PayPal fees though, so I'm not too fussed if you don't fancy the PayPal option. PM me for my address, either here, on GPG, or for a quicker response on the Vader Trophy forums as I check that more often.

I don't charge interest

Just to add, Dave Ellis's ticket is being bought on the day due to his lack of onlineness today

lol

Having said that, if he can let me know soon I can probably add another ticket too the order up to the point they have been posted I think.

Just ordered Dave E a ticket too

Tickets arrived today

They even put Dave's ticket in the same envelope even thought it was a seperate order!

If we can't get karting for the Saturday, the leaflet they sent says they have just openened a new kart track at Knockhill with Est. 50mph karts - so we should be able to do something karting wise.

Excellent Neil, cheers for that

i just received a letter this morning from the karting company.

apparently i miss-read something when booking it, up until now the quicker version of the karts have only been used for grand prix and endurance events NOT arrive and drive sessions

but this letter explains due to the popularity of the fast karts, the company have sold the slower karts and the faster ones are now used for all sessions

yayes

Something I forgot to mention earlier about parking - the £10 track parking passes have all been sold apparently, so we'll have to park just outside the track and get their shuttle bus to the track.

Not ideal, but I'm sure we can live with using a bus once or twice a year

Last year there was guarenteed parking, which is pre-ordered, and just regular parking for the masses - stick it on a grass bank 2min from the track - that was free.

Well its 7am. Havent seen one of these in a long time. Im about to leave, cya in about 6 hours guys

Good night's karting last night.... Kev apparently destroyed his back, my knee has a rather enormous bruise on it now, and I've found another on my elbow this morning...

'Finishing' order (was a 30min exit pit and race from there event) based on fastest laps:

1) Kevin Williams - 27.643
2) Dave Liddle - 27.969
3) Graham Bridgett - 28.056
4) Dave Ellis - 28.170
5) myself - 28.283
6) Neil Stratton - 28.418
The podium finishers don't know it yet, but their prize is an argument with Chris Neira

We're about to set off (5am) for Knockhill.... see you later I guess...

Hope you are having/had a good day.

I remember last time I went karting, and I could hardly walk or move my wrists afterwards! Great fun though.

It was insane - the track's completely changed under new owners, and there's now 2 ramps... you go flat-out up about 1.5 metre over about a 3 metre long stretch, still flat-out, just, with the left-front in the air, you go sharp left, do a 180 still flat-out, then go down an identical ramp. The car bottoms out twice, very hard, and you've got quite huge ge-forces of both vertical and horizontal for a kart. It makes you feel quite ill in one sense, but such a buzz in another.

The rest of the track is a bit mad too - only 1 corner that can't be taken flat-out, and none of them are easily flat-out. Few bruises around the camp

Sunday was a little bit of a damp squib... set off at 5:00am, got to the track at about 8:45am I guess. As soon as we got out the cars it was raining... not too bad, but it was quite windy, and that makes it feel rather harder I guess. We were soaked through completely by about 9:10am... Dave had a poncho on and even it did nothing. With the wind-chill it wasn't particularly pleasent, so as the rain had subsided we headed back to the cars (about noon) to get dried out and give the weather a chance to see what it was going to do - Dave E stayed with his family trackside. Graham, Dave L and I decided to set off home, being soaked, and as soon as you got in the wind (which is everywhere at Knockhill unless you hide behind a motorhome) it was shivering temperature... Neil and Kev stayed back though, and apparently the following races were good.

Dave was still there at 3:30pm ish, texting that it was "monsoon" conditions for one of the races, and that the start lights had stopped working.

It was good... not pleasant by any means, but it was OK. Easily bearable from my point of view, but as we're not exactly a million miles away from the track, it made sense to come away.

Far from a wasted weekend - Saturday was great fun IMO, the journey's especially hilarious (Dave L and Dave E making a great combination) and the event itself good, if a bit on the shivering side.

Conditions earlier in the day. It got worse later. More to come