Free Bankroll Racing
Race Report
This is a race report of the New Milton Pedalcar Grand Prix held on the 15 July 2007 from the viewpoint of our sponsored car, Free Bankroll Racing (car number 18). Here is the teams report.The day started dry, an early morning was spent adding finishing touches to the pedal car for the race.
As the morning progressed the rain arrived, promising to make the track slippery and a little more entertaining.
As we arrived at the track the early morning rain had dried up leaving some hope of a dry race. We signed in and got the car scrutineered and entered the car into the holding area giving us a chance to eye up the competition cars and decide who was likely to be the biggest challengers.
The drivers briefing took place followed by a 30 minute practice session on the track giving us a chance to try out the track and bump a few cars along the way (Sorry Photosrule!). During this practice session the rain once again began to fall making some already slippery hairpins even more fun.
A motorbike display then used the track, very loudly zooming up and down providing the spectators with a warm up before the main event. After this the cars formed up on the grid and each driver was interviewed (A chance to advertise the Pedalcar Championship).
Lets Race!
By now it was approaching two o'clock and with the race about to start everyone cleared the track and the race was underway. We quickly progressed from our starting position of 25th to 8th after one lap, then 3rd and into the lead by lap three. We were able to build up a small lead in the first quarter of an hour which was held after the first pit stop and the lead extended up to the half hour mark. By now the rain had stopped and the track was drying out nicely providing more grip around the corners. Another driver change and it quickly became established who our main competition was, Gone Biking Mad!, Pattersons Banger and Pilleys Pedallers.Problems
Our lead was maintained into the forty five minute mark and we made our 3rd change still maintaining a noticeable lead. Shortly into the forth stint we had a problem with the chain coming off. This small upset on such a fast circuit dumped us down to forth place but still in contention. At the hour mark we made another driver change and began the charge back to attempt to get us back into the lead.The charge
We caught up the third place car (Pattersons Banger) however overtaking them proved somewhat more difficult as we managed to
touch wheels sending us up, over and into a heap on the floor. Having quickly picked up the car we once again began to chase
the leaders. Two laps later we had successfully overtaken Pattersons Banger and moved up to third place and began
to quickly close up the gap to second place. As we came within a few yards of Pilleys Pedallers in second place they got a corner
completely wrong and ended up into the hay bales at high speed. This unfortunately took them out of the race promoting us to
second place. At our next driver pit stop we had maintained second place however the leaders(Gone Biking Mad!) were now over a minute ahead.
As we began to reel them in they got a penalty for overtaking in the pit lane. (Naughty!) They left the pit lane
a few yards ahead of us and we able to overtake and build up a small lead.
