June Club Day
Sunday 29th June 2008 (Oakleigh Go Kart Racing Club)
After a two and a half month break from karting Dylan made his return to racing at the Oakleigh June Club Day. With not much practice between races we did not expect anything from the event other than to get our times down to normal and have a bit of fun.
Starting in 13th on the grid Dylan made a solid start to hold his place for the first half of the race. Slowly finding his race legs Dylan made his way up to 11th place by the end. However his lack of tracktime showed with his best times sitting in the low 43's bracket.
Making a couple of changes to improve balance for Heat 2, Dylan started in fourth but a slightly poor start saw him caught on the outside of Turn 1 and slipped back into sixth. Holding down sixth Dylan slowly improved his pace to drop back into the low 42's, however despite this improvement Dylan slipped back into seventh and comfortably held it for the duration of the race. As a positive Dylan's was able to close the gap to sixth to approximately one second by the last lap.
Making a couple of changes to improve balance for Heat 2, Dylan started in fourth but a slightly poor start saw him caught on the outside of Turn 1 and slipped back into sixth. Holding down sixth Dylan slowly improved his pace to drop back into the low 42's, however despite this improvement Dylan slipped back into seventh and comfortably held it for the duration of the race. As a positive Dylan's was able to close the gap to sixth to approximately one second by the last lap.
Despite this the day proved to be a positive return to the track and a good hit out.