What are you racing this weekend

What are you racing this weekend


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I've done more flying than racing this year. A charter member of a flying club we started last year, I've been enjoying the change. We've recreated the Reno Air Race, did an air rally following Route 66, followed the Orient Express from Paris to Istanbul in helicopters, "Sand and Snow" - from a point in west Africa over the Sahara over the Himalayas to a city in east China using any aircraft you like (I used a P-39 stripped of military equipment and fitted with a P-38 engine and modern instruments). In our recreation of the Australia Air Race of 1975, in which you could use any aircraft which actually competed, many of us decided, as an adjunct to the race, to fly from our home airports to Perth, Australia. I flew a 1938 Beech D17 from Columbus, OH, through the Pacific Northwest, through Alaska, across the Bering Strait, south through Siberia, Kamchatka, Japan, Guam, the Philippines, Indonesia, and into Australia. Had to stop for fuel roughly every 700 miles; thought I would have to turn back from Siberia til I found a small airport 920 miles away; leaned the engine to the most economical cruise I could and hoped for the best. Landed five hours later with less than seven gallons of fuel remaining.
 
Not "Something else I want to brag about"
I have nothing planned, maybe I'll race maybe I won't!

On a separate note, I'm having trouble getting to the site via Startpage through firefox, (last day or so) it's allowing me to track and visit pages from my history and navigate a little from there, but no Newspage, and no Homepage I simply get told the the site is unavailable... though it is available fromthe dreaded Microsoft Edge!

It's oboviusly a Startpage issue, but annoying
 
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its been a week to say the least in my part of the world, so I'm just doing laps and tunes. Its not the best mod but there is a mod of my daily (Audi B5 S4) that gives me the feeling I need to escape reality. I usually go between Blackwood, Nords, or one of the "old" maps like Feldbergring or Battenbergring.
 
On a separate note, I'm having trouble getting to the site via Startpage through firefox, (last day or so) it's allowing me to track and visit pages from my history and navigate a little from there, but no Newspage, and no Homepage I simply get told the the site is unavailable... though it is available fromthe dreaded Microsoft Edge!

It's obviusly a Startpage issue, but annoying

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Street course!

(I haven't worked on the track for 4 years and it's still very much WIP)

(Footage starts at Statue Corner, nowadays known as the Hotel Lisboa Corner)

And the 2024 Macau GP is coming up next weekend.
 
I guess its a bit late to say what im 'going to be' doing but what Ive been doing this weekend is racing to come up with a plan for this buggy for the kids. Certainly feels 'bragworthy'.

My oldest started asking some weeks ago if I would go 'take a look' at a go kart frame a neighbor is selling. "Take a look" means "Im going to beg and use 16 year old logic to try to convince you that we NEED this". Long story short, it wasnt worth much and we ended up with it for next to nothing as hes more friend than neighbor and wanted to do something nice for the kids.

Have a couple local karting shops so parts are plentiful and the plan is a full restore or rather what you call, restomod? Getting it back to new condition with much better, more modern parts. Its not super old but it could use some updating or QOL updates. The frame itself is still sold under all different names. The most popular would be the Trailmaster brand of go karts.

Whats funny is, it still needs stripping/powder, new brake master/lines, new tires, wiring to lights/electrical/ign, and oddities here and there but I made damn sure to get the engine and torque converter first! You see, most people will tell you, " You put all this effort into going fast, you better put effort into slowing down'. I see it differently. Why have brakes if you have nothing to stop in the first place? Lol Im joking. I wouldnt put my kids in a deathtrap.

Ill get a couple pics once I get up and out into the garage.
 

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