Just when you think you might have learned all the tricks, one learns new ones. The NKRA meeting at Buckmore produced at least three.
1) A wounded kart limping round the track got itself caught up by the leaders at just the wrong place. The leader bounced off the legal side, the second overtook on the other side of the rumble strip and gained position. As someone suggested, if you are limping round and the leaders are approaching at that speed, in a clutched kart you can pull off and wait till they have gone by. But even the oldest karters can get caught out by circumstance.
2) If your transponder separates from the kart, the timers think you are stopped and you finish last, so you need to check whether the position has been altered by manual lapscorers or register a protest that your position is incorrect, within the half hour of the positions being posted. Just because the lap scorers are usually right, doesn't mean they always are right.
3) Don't roll excess throttle cable up in a loop secured by tape. The excess unrolled for one novice and the end got caught under the tyre. It cut the tyre completely in two, right the way round the circumference like a cheese wire. Fortunately it happened at a slow corner and he survived a slow off.
Had it happened at full speed on the next corner the result might have been different.
Moral: cut the excess cable off.
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