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2018 Season sumary

2018-12-14

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The RF 85 rests just as it was left this spring. Instead I have built a new garage, raced my Lotus 61 and spent a lot of time with Theo and his karting.

The garage
After a lot of discussion with the municipality authorities I finally got a go ahead to build another 25 sqm on our plot. The new garage will be used mostly for the karting and final assembly on the single seaters.

Constructon of the garage

Test fitting

Finally the 911 is back home after some 10 years of storage in Skåne

Theos karting
The first half of the season he continued in the Cadetti class. After the summer break he did 4 races in Micro class to gain a national racing licence.

Last Cadetti race at Jönköping Junior Festival

First Micro Race at Lidköping<

After the succsessful graduation to Micro we have bought an almost new EVO Kart chassie to tackle the 2019 season with.

The "new" EVOKart

A First wet test at Borås Motorstadion

My Lotus Racing 2018
My first race was Velodromloppet in june (I missed the first race at Kinnekulle due to the garage build).
I had some issues with the carburettor float comming adrift, which made the engine cut out in RH corners. I still managed to finish 3rd in the first heat and 1st in class and 3rd overall in the 2nd heat.

Knutstorp SSM
I still had issues with the float in qualifying and only managed to qualify 12th. It's really frustrating when the car runs perfect during the free practice, you then do the warmup of the engine and everyting is OK, just to leave it for 10min to get dressed and then when you drive to the line up you immediately feel that something is wrong. For the race I changed the float and everything worked as it should again.

Race 1:

Race 2

I missed the Mantorp race and the Anderstorp 50-yrs jubilee as I was away on a buissness trip. I arrived home the day before the RHK final at Falkenberg, and as it it a track that I know well i still managed to do good with a 2nd and a class win.

At the end I finished the 2018 season as 2nd in category G for Formula Ford cars 1968-1971 with the Lotus 61 despite missing 2 races and having some issuses at Velodromloppet and Knutstorp.

2018-03-02

The Van Diemen RF85 beeing worked on

Theo's "new" gokart

winter sumary

2018-03-02

Preparation of the RF85 is in full swing. Frame is painted, the new electrics are done and most of the parts are overhauled ready to go on to the chassis as soon as the floorpan is glued in place. A big box of new parts from Demon Tweeks are on its way Gokart wise we have bought a Energy Corse "Micro" which is the first competition class in Sweden for kids 8-10yrs old. This class have a Raket 95 2-stroke engine with around 9Hp. However the first part of the season Theo will run the Tony Kart in the Cadetti class and practice with the Micro. Theo did his first practice for this year in Klippan in similar conditions as the F1 guys pre season test in Barcelona!

The Van Diemen RF85 beeing worked on

Theo's "new" gokart