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Tuesday 9th August 2011 – Go-Kart racing

The weather was followed really closely this morning by Bernd, Axel, Brian and Christof. They even got one digital weather station in use. In one point Axel was looking out from the window and said with a happy face “oo, it’s getting better”. We asked him what kind of mushrooms or happy pills he is eating since we couldn’t see the situation as positive as he did. Well, to be honest, at that point clouds looked quite good, but the situation was changing all the time. I overheard Bernd saying again something about weather warnings…this time the winds will blow only 40-60 km/h here in the area of Freudenstadt. So wind wasn’t as strong as yesterday (positive thinking :-)

Briefing was postponed to 13:30 and the day was again cancelled. After that there were discussions what would be more interesting to do than spend the day at rainy airfield. Choices were French house and Jacuzzi, panorama bad in Freudenstadt or Go Kart racing. We went Go Kart racing in Sulz, just half an hour drive from Musbach (it would be half an hour drive, if there wouldn’t be any road construction works on the way there). Our drive took one hour or so…we saw interesting landscape and beautiful scenery anyway.

It was a surprise to me that there were so many people (both pilots and crew) driving. I could count around 40-50 persons listening the drivers briefing. So the group had to be divided into teams, not by country of course, but mixing the countries instead. Each team drove 20 minutes, and the winners of each team drove against each other.

We left just when second team started, Nikke (from Finland!) was leading then, his best lap time was just over 38 seconds.

In the evening we had dinner again in the Schinken Stüble with Marina, Chiara, Wojciech, Hubi, Brian and Hannah. I was really happy that I had only this blog to write in the evening, as Hubi had to edit his video for tomorrow. I don’t know that much about video editing, but I am sure it’s not an easy job to make a nice video with nice music for the next morning. But he can do it, I am sure of it, besides the result is always great.

In the evening we were chatting online with Hanna Räihä (from Finland), she sent her greetings from Glider Aerobatics Championships where my friends were flying as well. We were talking about the atmospheres on competition sites, and we noticed that things are going pretty much the same style on both places. Except that nobody is singing serenades to me.

Aaah…by the way, it seems that some of you have found each other and are having fun in the tents. You should remember that the tent walls are not soundproof ;-)

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