Lydd is a 6.5 hour drive and over 300 miles, Grandad hired a van from Enterprise and we travelled down Thursday afternoon. After 7 hours we finally arrived and stayed overnight at the Premiere Inn near Ditton in Maidstone. My Dad thought it was funny that the "Fitton's were in Ditton" and posted an embarrassing post on Facebook..
Lydd is a fast circuit with some quick chicanes and large sweeping left handers combined with some long straights
Friday Practice
On Friday we drove down setting up at the far back on paddock B (which is where you'll find us Saturday and Sunday), the sky was dull and we could see rain over the ocean and by 9 o'clock the rain hit and everyone was panicking about the set up, we decided to go with wet tyres and a dry set up. As we were in a rush to get everything changed the tyres were not at a suitable pressure.
The first session out was interesting, I was still finding the line and breaking points and the track was not soaked but not dry either, I found to have very low grip sliding on the top corner. The second time out the rain had intensified we were on a semi-wet setup with the same gearing, this time the kart handled much better but towards the end of the session when the rain was worsening the grip decreased as the kart wasn't setup for heavy surface water. The next few sessions were relatively ok going to a full wet setup, we struggled with understeer and span due to a large puddle costing £125 in repairs. The races were paused due to heavy rainfall for the remainder of the day.
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