A Karting Send off for Brian

This past Sunday the club held a go kart send off party at Driveway Austin for one of the clubs founders and past presidents Brian – Bellator.

The day started with a class room run through of the rules along with some basic driving tips for getting the most out of your kart and how to lower your lap times. Once that was done we all made our way to the track where the eleven in attendance split up into two groups – those that had raced at the Driveway before and those that had not.

The newbies went out first so they could do some laps behind one of the tracks instructors so they could see where the fast line was around the track. Once they had completed a few laps they lined up to race. It was great to watch them all pushing their own limits as well as those of their club mates. The racing was much cleaner than what usually takes place at Kings with all the racers being very mostly respectful of each other. The members of this group were: Shawn, Brian, Mark, David, Jordan and Brett.

This group ran two 10 lap races with everyone running near the front at some point.

The next group was made up of those that had run at the Driveway before. This group included Ary, Russell, Marty, Maxwell and Antonio. This group also ran two races with very close running between all the racers.

After both groups had two races under their belt they were mixed for one final endure race where each driver would run five laps with a driver change after the first five laps, The drivers were paired up using a very unscientific method with a person from the experienced group joining one from the newbie group. After the two five lap stints were run the results were: Maxwell/Marty, Ary/Mark, Russell/Shawn, Brian/Jordan, David/Antonio and Brett/Driving Instructor.

It was a great time and a great way to send off one of the best guys you will ever meet.

I can’t wait for the next club founder to move away.