On Saturday Cameron was clearly in the mood and setting times that were top 3 and getting faster with every session, we don’t have a time to compare with last month as this was circuit 1, not 2 as then but compared with 2 months ago when the temperature was much higher and the track faster it was a major step up in performance setting a 42.2 in comparison to his previous best of 42.51.

Sunday was a different story.

Heat 1, turn 1, mass pile up AGAIN that involved nearly all of the top runners and included Cameron who’s first lap was a 73! After having to get out of the kart to remove another kart that was on top before getting his head down to ensure he didn’t finish last, it was a commendable effort considering the nearest kart was 10 seconds down the road before he came out of turn 1 and with nobody to chase he still set the 4^th fastest lap and looked very good.

Heat 2 with a grid of 24^th was going to be tough but we set a target of top 10 due to the undoubted speed. At the end of lap 1 he was in a great 17^th place and was following Aaron Head in traffic and we hope learning a lot, then another place to be 16^th after lap 2 and the hope of the top 10 was becoming real but then after 54 allowed Aaron passed on the back straight he turned in with a ridiculous block mid straight and put Cameron on the grass, it was very well held to avoid a big crash but the loss of 4 places back to 20^th was not deserved, after recovering and battling with a small group he came out in 19^th, again a promising race that could have been much more.

Heat 3 with a grid of 2^nd was a very promising prospect as last month we had run away into a comfortable 2^nd place from the front row.  A good start saw him in 2^nd after turn one but then dropping a couple of places to be in 5^th after 2 laps, then the heat rose and he managed to get back to 3^rd on lap 5 before a disgraceful attack from number 70 that went totally unpunished, watching from the pit area you could see Cam and 70 brake into the bus stop at the same point but then 70 clearly let off the brakes and fired Cameron into the grass, this was not a tap to move someone out the way or let them know you are there, this was a blatant attack and should have been punished but yet again it seems that the marshalls and 4 steward were all watching other parts of the track! This dropped him back to 12^th and then one more move saw a recover to 11^th but a top 3 was the real opportunity and this would have given a much better grid for the final due to the chaos in all rounds putting the front runners all over the place.

With a final grid of 18^th we knew it would be a hard race but a battling performance in the midfield saw a 6 place gain to 12^th and again top 4 times so although not a great race day a very pleasing performance.

Thanks to Jonathan Stilp for all the performance aids for both team SDG drivers, this man knows how to run fast karts and knows how to get our drivers in the right frame of mind to be at the front.