A tale of Times

23 May

The blue beast was locked up last weekend... so was my soul! haha


However, it provide me some time to delve into the lap times from the last race. Before we do so, we must 'ignore' the times set by Mary-ann while she is racing a Rotax Max she had no weights on the kart. Also I had edit/ deleted Lai Wee Sing, Louis and Jordan times as they raced in different engines without any weights regulations to give this timing sheet more perspective, at least for myself la.

Qualifying

As mentioned in my last post, my qualifying lap put me in third and was 0.3s away from the top 2. What was interesting was that Leo's initial time was 45.62 for his 1st run, and when he went for another he shaved off a massive 0.6s!! Looking at these, I wonder if I should do likewise then and try to gain some positions (read Pole). I could have tried, and who knows. So I guess I will for the next one which is next week. It was definitely nice to see that of the 10 125cc runners, 7 did a sub 46s lap for our qualifying. Great stuff, and it only can get better I'm sure.

Heat 1 Times

For Heat 1, we can see that the average lap times for Sin Wei is 45.75, and mine was 45.81. His best time is 45.16s and mine was 45.22 which was faster than my qualifying time and my ever fastest. I definitely should try to do one more set of qualifying. Thankfully I had managed to hold off Leo before his 2nd race tyres was giving up on him after 8 laps. If I did not have the chance to jump him at the start I could be stuck behind him and be open to attack. Note: start is very important. Given the overall average time of 45.81s I am obvious delighted. However, I hope to narrow my lap times variation to 0.3s which means all my laps must be 45.5s calculating from my best lap (45.22s). Another target to aim for!

Heat 2 Times

Clearly, I was able to match the lap times with Sin Wie all the way... only until lap 8. Then I could felt it. The unmistakably feeling... the strain. I just could not eke out more in hope to chase him down for the lead. From an average difference of 0.06 to this average of 0.5s was a significant pace decrease on my part. Further, I lost out a huge chuck of time somehow in the 1st lap alone, which is 0.8s. Double Note: start is very important!

The races to come will be very interesting, and I hope to do similar or even better!

cheers