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It’s been an eventful day.

Up at 6am, off to the velodrome. Yet again they placed my son in the wrong team for the Italian pursuit. By the time he was on the front (5th rider), the other team were about 20 metres behind them.  But then he got his go and charged away. Luckily the girl behind him who was the last rider is very quick and the two of them pulled out a very impressive distance for their two laps. I dunno, I know it’s only training but I can see the favouritism that goes on there. The riders who do all the racing get priority. Ho hum. It’s not really a problem but my son so far has not wanted to race properly and he’s one of the fastest people there.

Anyway, then we raced over to the 3 Sisters race track in Wigan where I had my single seater experience day going on. Fucking brilliant, to put it mildly. I’ve been thinking about it all day I enjoyed it so much. These formula fords are so much better on this track than the big supercars, even on my assessment laps in the Mini Cooper I was right up the arse of a Vanquish for my 4 laps because he wouldn’t move over.

The single seaters were even quicker and a huge amount of fun. They corner like nothing else I’ve been in and the pace car got faster and faster until it was just me and him. The car didn’t falter once so I suspect we were way off what the car can do although reasonably close to what I can do. The important thing is I took it all as a bit of fun, not so some of the other guys there who clearly thought they were gods gift to driving. Hopefully me and the pace car passing them on about lap 7 will make them change their minds. I particularly liked the look on one guys face who was shouting about getting 80% in his assessment from the cooper session and so would be right behind the pace car only to watch my 94% being written on the board. Again, if you’re so brilliant, how come you go lapped by me,  a complete non-petrol head?

So much fun, well recommended. I really enjoyed myself. Nothing like passing a hundred grand car in one wth only 110bhp.

Oh, then I rode about 27 miles around Rivington on my Chameleon. It was great.