For those of you who do not know what an Ariel Atom2 is (no, it is NOT a brand of washing powder), then you should check out the video clip below. The Atom2 is perhaps one of the most insanely fun cars ever built. It is built by a small company (7 employees) somewhere in the villages of England. The engineering operations apparently run out of a barn on some farm.

I had a fairly ok weekend which started out with some meetings with people connected to my-kart. The first meeting didn't go well as there was a mis-match in expectations from both sides.

The second meeting on Saturday was alright, but I went to the wrong place. Eventually I got there, but late! I hate being late. Anyway, the second meeting was in relation to my-kart's Racing For Children initiative. We are getting one step closer to getting the project off the ground. So that's good.

Anyway, then Ju and I went looking at some houses in Bukit Jelutong. Nice. But expensive. Hmmm.... must work on the money generator machine.

It's the usual year end thing. You see, I'm an accountant - of sorts. Our company year end is december. So January is usually a hectic time for us as we close our books and the auditors come in. But typing this down is already boring, so I'll quit.

I guess karting is more interesting.

Anyway, a few weeks back a few of us my-kart guys paid a visit to Rosedi Kart at Subang Jaya. Subang Jaya navigation is not for the meek, I must say. With all the massive road works and the terminal & inherent traffic problems, you really need to know exactly how you are going to get to your destination. Otherwise you'd be stuck in a chronic traffic jam.

Yesterday, Munib and I went to the USJ Elite kart circuit for a few rounds on our Rotax Max.

I can concluded 3 things:

1. I don't know much about karting technicals
2. the track is very bumpy and physical (ouch!)
3. need to improve my fitness *sigh*

The chassis is an Arrow 2004 ax5-125 chassis. Not sure whether that is correct. The handling was alright, although the bumpy USJ circuit did not help the relatively stiff chassis. A few times the bumps caused my foot to either fly off the pedals or on to it! Imagine going round one of the fast (& bumpy) corners and having the left foot accidently hit the brakes... that was a bugger moment for me.

To round off 2005 for my-KART we kicked off with an Inter Company / Car Club ("IC3") Challenge. We even had a newspaper coverage in The Star recently. The participation was very encouraging and I have had a few enquiries from companies and car clubs about wanting to participate in 2006. The Star article did help alot - I received several phone calls that day. Problem is I may need to think of how to manage an entrylist of more than 12 teams....

Saturday 10th December 2005 was a culmination of a tough year in the my-kart K2 championship. The competition is truly getting tougher and tougher each year. But one solitary win and 5 podium finishes was enough for me to retain the K2 championship for the second year and maintain my 3rd my-kart overall championship.

To top this off, my team -Tail Happy Racing- also won the 2005 my-kart Mega Enduro Series.

 

One of the best things that I've been involved with outside of family and work is the things that Azlan and I started with my-KART.

my-KART started out as a way that Azlan and I could have regular kart races with our friends. We previously found it very difficult to get a good "quorum" individually so decided to "pool" our group of friends. We then formed the Yahoo mailing list and that was when the interest spread quickly - mainly thru word of mouth.