Team Firebird walked up to the challenge to face four other professional kart teams at Kyalami race way on Saturday 19 May 2007. After observing the competition’s trailers, matching race suits and personal helmets, we soon realised we were probably the underdogs of the event. Nevertheless we pretended not to be scared and took up the challenge like men, even though we had a female member in our team which I might add has got more guts than most male rugby players playing for Non-Blue Bull rugby teams.
Ricardo (Alonso) started off our race with courage and kept our name high, followed by Nadine (Orange Lightning) who occasionally decided to take some traffic cones home, then it was Gerhardus (Habana Schumacher) who managed to write off our first kart in a spectacular way, on a good lap I might add, fortunately no-one was hurt. Then it was me (the one who made Herbie go bananas) I managed to perfect the art of kicking up some dust by spinning off into the barrier of tyres without obtaining whip-lash! After me was John T (Mansell) who setup our best lap time of 52 seconds by consistently flying around the track.
It is amazing that 85km/h in a small vehicle like a kart can feel much-much faster when you are sitting a few millimetres from the tar I must say that Team Firebird did exceptionally well considering this is not our day jobs unlike our opposition, who was very serious about the event, we still managed to end the four hour race only 30 laps behind the winning team.
Meet the people behind Team Firebird:
Ricardo (Alonso) started off our race with courage and kept our name high, followed by Nadine (Orange Lightning) who occasionally decided to take some traffic cones home, then it was Gerhardus (Habana Schumacher) who managed to write off our first kart in a spectacular way, on a good lap I might add, fortunately no-one was hurt. Then it was me (the one who made Herbie go bananas) I managed to perfect the art of kicking up some dust by spinning off into the barrier of tyres without obtaining whip-lash! After me was John T (Mansell) who setup our best lap time of 52 seconds by consistently flying around the track.
It is amazing that 85km/h in a small vehicle like a kart can feel much-much faster when you are sitting a few millimetres from the tar I must say that Team Firebird did exceptionally well considering this is not our day jobs unlike our opposition, who was very serious about the event, we still managed to end the four hour race only 30 laps behind the winning team.
Meet the people behind Team Firebird:
John, Me, Ricky, Nadine & Gerhardus
The karts
The track
John trying to catch a ride
I think you should wear that to work Harry
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