El Vendrell - Password: misfortune

Unluck.

That's the only word to describe my Champions Cup.
To tell the truth, it has been a great weekend... till Sunday.

Fastest lap in the free practice, 3rd in qualifing session, everything was promising well.

And indeed the first manche of saturday went very well, from the start, where I took the lead and leaded most part of the race pretty easily, till when I started a tough battle with Antony Abbasse (Sodikart), and finished 2nd, just administrating the race to take points.

Then it came Sunday... and with that, a terrible, implacable wind that from saturday started to push at the speed at about 120Km/h!

Some tent broke and in the morning the program was revised in order to permit everybody to repair damages to enviroment.

The sand brought by the wind changed literally the track, and our setup was not so good anymore, other teams revealed to be at ease in this unusual condition.

But anyway we were still on the focus to win.

At the start of the 2nd heat, the misdeed: starting from the front row, a piece of paper went into my airbox and has blocked the flow and with that the engine power.
Altmost everybody passed me and when I fixed the problem was nearly last.
So I started a furious comeback that permitted me to be 11th at the finish line.

In the 3rd and final heat, I was pretty determined to win, but the setup was still not perfect and after a tough battle I finished 3rd.

With the accumulated penalties I was 6th for the start of the Final, so it was still to see everything, but another time unluck came out.
At the start, a spark failure brought me from 6th to 20th, but anyway I managed to come up and in the middle of the race I was already 7th, but when I tried to overtake the guy in front, he involved me in a huge accident which caused extensive damage to the kart and forced me to retire.

I was pretty disappointed with what happened Sunday, I was definitely sure of my chances to win, but that's racing, you have allways to keep in mind.


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