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The newly crowned champions came to Buckmore hoping to end what has been an exceptional year on a high. Instead they left bitterly disappointed after a series of problems left them in 18th at the finish.
Eddie Hall joined team captains Ian Miller and Stephen Deuchar for the final race of the season. They were briefly joined by fourth driver, Ian Wilson, who came to give moral support but had to depart early as he was flying off to Spain, leaving his team-mates to cope with typical British (or typical Buckmore Park) rain!
The team had to change their kart in practice as it had no bottom end. Unbelievably, the replacement kart was even worse. It was too late by this stage to change it again, so the team knew they would be in for a long afternoon.
Starting 32nd and last as a result of topping the championship table, Stephen made a good start to get up into the mid field by the time he came in for a splash and dash on lap 2. The lack of bottom-end soon became apparent, however, and he struggled to make ground. His misery was compounded by being taken out by another kart.
Ian Miller went out and had a clean run before handing over to Eddie, who suffered with severe misting problems and had to race both without his glasses and his visor up, meaning time he got close to the back of another kart, the spray literally blinded him.
The rest of the race was a complete nightmare. The kart got progressively worse throughout the race, but the trio did an incredible job to get as high as 11th at one stage. Stephen was taken out for the second time in his last stint and the team lost a further 3 laps in the pits when the kart lost all power at the end of the pitlane and refused to start up.
The consolation to such an awful race was that the team picked up their trophy for winning the championship! |
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