A year ago we were in a race and my lad was starting behind another kid who has a real pushy Dad. This kid had already dunted us off at least three times but I never said anything to him about it as I could see the boy didn’t seem to enjoy karting much. Well in this race I positioned myself right opposite the first corner as that’s where there was always a lot of accidents. Coming up to the line my lad was at least 2 kart lengths off his bumper and being his usual ultra cautious self. Then a kart from the row behind come up past my son and swiped this kid clean off the track. Off course this man thought my lad had taken his boy off and me and my son got a torrent of verbal abuse.
In fact at every race for the remainder of that year this MISERABLE man would stand at the edge of the collection area after every race and mutter verbal abuse at me and my (then 9 year old) boy. As if this wasn’t bad enough I noticed quite a few Dads who used to talk with me stopped talking. I dread to think how many people must think me and my lad are SH*T on the word of this person but at least one Dad came up to me and said he had heard the stories but as far as he was concerned he would speak as he found and has remained a friend.
I’m sorry if I am boring you but let me bring you a little more up to date. At our club race last month my boy led the opening lap really well but coming through a medium fast corner where the practice is to hold back a little to get a run on the straight, my boy was hit hard from behind and his rear wheels lifted. He saved the crash but lost about 7 positions. His confidence was shattered and the rest of the day we were off our pace. Well this wasn’t the first time we have been hit by this particular boy and recently it has always been going into fast corners.
Not like the first time this kid hit us as we were lying a good second but going into a hairpin my boy was hit so hard from behind that this kid came right over the top of my son’s kart, pressing his head down and his rear wheels landed on our front nassua panel.
Well given that this child’s mother was standing beside me at the time and WAILING like a DEMENTED BANSHEE “Go on, Go on” as he put my boy’s life in danger, I turned to her and said, “Your son has just taken my son off”
Well whatever way I said that all hell was to let lose. She went to the MSA stewards and accused me of abusing her and a tribunal was convened. I asked a few mothers who were standing right beside us if they would vouch that I hadn’t been abusive but they said as they hadn’t heard anything they couldn’t.
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The unbelievable world of cadet karting ...Part 2 by 'SteveG98' << You are here!
