Race Recap - TRAK Race 2

If the first race felt like opening a new book, this one felt like being dropped into a chapter you’re not quite ready for yet.

Really cold and rainy with a track that changed every session. This was a difficult weekend from the start. Nothing dramatic happened, it was just consistently challenging.

Racing in the rain - again

We knew it was going to be wet, but it was one of those days where the conditions never really settled.

Not only was it rainy, it was a “why does it feel like December at the end of April?” kind of cold 🥶

I was struggling to understand where the grip might be until I just accepted that it wasn't going be the same for two sessions in a row.

There’s a lot more patience involved in the rain. Everything slows down a bit and you have to pay more attention to what the kart is doing rather than just trying to drive through it.

Practice was mostly about getting a baseline, finishing 6th and starting to get a feel for how the kart responded in the wet.

Qualifying was harder to put together. I ended up 10th after encountering traffic, and small gaps made a big difference to the finishing positions.

Building Through the Day

The pre-final felt like a step forward. I moved up to 9th and the pace improved quite a bit. It started to feel like things were connecting more, even if it wasn’t showing up in position yet.

In the final, I finished 11th. Not where I wanted to be, but the lap times improved again. That's something to build on.

Takeaways for future TRAK races

This wasn’t the kind of race where everything clicks, but it was still good learning. It was my first wet TRAK race, too!

Not every race weekend is about the result. Sometimes it’s about learning how to deal with conditions that don’t suit you (yet) so you can take what you learned and apply it next time out.

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A big thank you to Team UltraKart and my sponsors: TDot Wraps, Glasslake Funding, NGD Services, Durham Wealth Planning Group and Clarke Engineering. Thanks to your support, I’m able to compete and grow as a racer, even on tough days like this one.