Team MPUK Racing

[Aardvark]

Right, me and my GPL muckers are attending a 3hour kart enduro at Daytona Karting in Milton Keynes on the 5th of December with a bunch of FF2000 types. I hear there's room for another team, so I'm looking for 4 of you with 65 quid each to make up a team.

You'll all be happy to learn I'm already taken, so no worries there :) Full (and repeated) info is:

I'm organising the annual Formula Ford 2000 Karting
"do" at Daytona Raceway in Milton Keynes on Sunday 5th December
starting at 4:00 pm. The event will be a 3 hour enduro for twin
engined pro karts. Teams of 4 welcome. Cost will be £65.00/head
(£260/team). Further details will be appearing on my website www.borntorace.co.uk as soon as I have them.

[Bonkers]

If anyone else is up for it! Im in

[andyf]

might .. be able to make this :)


can we have a no-female-drivers rule, or failing that, no-bootz rule? :)

[Bootz]

or no people who have previously been BANNED from driving :p

(ps clean license yo :p :p :p)

[Aardvark]

Andy in blatant irc lurkage shocker :)

[andyf]

For some reason mirc crashed and won't fire back up ;)

Yes yes so some people might have been banned, bootz, but at least they can park their own cars without .. incident ;)

hi aardvark :) Driving a kart won't be too far off your Ka ! Bit of an advantage perhaps ..

[Aardvark]

Yeah i'm like halfway there, and thats just the spelling!

[ant]

sounds good, recon i can drift a go cart :)

[Aardvark]

So who is confirmed as 'yes' so I can give them the relevant payment info?

I see Bonkers, Andy and Ant, so that leaves one more needed for a team.

[andyf]

I'm in if Ant's in - team SXOC innit ;)

[andyf]

Cor it's a Sunday. That makes it 99% probable I will do this now :D

Andyf Ant Bonkers ... we need Bootz to keep the A+B theme going :D

[ant]

sunady is good, just checking the date now

[Bonkers]

so thats 3 of us :) need one more!

[andyf]

I think we may have inadventantly (!) put off our nominated 4th driver :(

mutter.. shouldn't be allowed messenger at work ... :p:

[andyf]

ok she can't be persuaded (women!), so ...

Step forward Ryvita? Surely you'll be up for this :D

[andyf]

Ryvita can't make it and ..

I don't think I can either now. sorry lads :(

[Aardvark]

Lies can you not make it. You're just being arsey cos I wouldn't go searching for a 4th all by myself :D

[andyf]

yeah maybe :D

I will check the times at work

I have to do a ****LOAD for Dec 3rd deadline.

[Aardvark]

Consider karting your reward for having had to work like hell to meet said deadline then :)

[andyf]

Originally posted by Aardvark
Consider karting your reward for having had to work like hell to meet said deadline then :)

tbh i'd rather consider my paycheque the reward :D

[Mingtea]

OK due to me being a ****cock and not checking when MPUK paintballing was i've had to drop out

that means there is ONE PLACE FREE for those of you that want some ELITE karting fun poke aardvark for details.

Yes I suck, but have the opertunity to suck less than me and go karting today!

[ant]

john, you blow

[andyf]

Ant you paid yet ? get a move on you!

[ant]

i have indeed,

[Bonkers]

going to the bank today :) also - looks like im doing both - painball and gokarting! what a fkin weekend!!

[andyf]

Ok I noticed I booked the wrong weekend to fly back and hire a car :D Mostly sorted this now :p

[andyf]

I take it we have our fourth then :D Hello the blue one.

[bvark]

hello. looking forward to this. ming, I am going from paintballing to karting, aardvark is driving, if you wanted to do that instead of me I would be cool with it; I've never driven karts this fast and may well let the side down!

[andyf]

Aardvark what time would you like me there for? Is 4pm the start of the karting or the meet-up time?

I think I'll set off early-ish morning. Combination of large travel, ****ty roads, and a goddamn rental car of small engined doom.

[Mingtea]

Originally posted by bvark
hello. looking forward to this. ming, I am going from paintballing to karting, aardvark is driving, if you wanted to do that instead of me I would be cool with it; I've never driven karts this fast and may well let the side down!

at least you have a licence! ;) nah that's cool, you go own them all.

[ant]

Originally posted by andyf
, and a goddamn rental car of small engined doom. [/B]


wheres the 200 ?

[Aardvark]

Originally posted by andyf
Aardvark what time would you like me there for? Is 4pm the start of the karting or the meet-up time?
I'm reliably informed that we should all 'get there before 3:30pm'. So do that.

[Bonkers]

Originally posted by ant
wheres the 200 ?

200 is in the garage being fettled with

[ant]

hopefully to make it faster :)

[andyf]

Ferry + 200 more expensive than Plane + Hire car. Yes, it's faster now :)

[Aardvark]

Weather report. (http://www.bbc.co.uk/weather/5day.shtml?id=2679)

Well at least it appears that rain will stay away. I'm not liking the 3:52pm sunset time though, as thats 8 minutes before we even start... :eek:

[andyf]

I'm guessing the karts have no lights, either ! Bring it on :D

[Bonkers]

im scared :D

[ant]

i'm not bring it on

do you know what track layout will be used ?

[Aardvark]

http://www.daytona.co.uk/images/track_mk.png

We're using the full International layout. The little kink before the hairpin at the extreme left is probably the hairiest corner on the track.

[ant]

good, should be a right laff :)

[Aardvark]

Beware of female drivers. Such as this one. (http://www.borntorace.co.uk/urs_2003_vid/Amnon%20off.WMV) :D

[ant]

that place looks good :)

[Bonkers]

its ON

[andyf]

:D :D

[Aardvark]

Ladies and gentlemen, I give you...

The Results! (http://www.borntorace.co.uk/borntorace_page_18.htm)

As you can see our boys did us proud with a storming race :) My own team SBRC1 was left to pick up 13th from the muddy wake of Team MPUK Racing ;)

Good day all round, hopefully the fab four will encourage some more of you fops to take part in some sort of MPUK-only race :)

[andyf]

It was indeed excellent fun, and also far too cold to consider standing around with a video camera :D

[andyf]

Looks like I've found something to do at the weekends on the island ...

http://www.duketrackdays.com/karts/index.shtml

weee

[Bonkers]

Straight - Full Pelt round the first bend - first turn break - skid - die - break gokart - wave arms at marshall - shout - wave arms some more - finally get pulled out after we go from 21st - 27th 4 mins later :) WP WP

Nope not me - but wp bvark ;)