I had a reply to my email asking for info.  I quote “Hi, we are sending out the qualifying letters now. Due to the postal strike we had to wait, making sure that all applicants would receive their post. If you do not receive anything by post by the 7th November please give us a call.”  When I hear, you’ll hear.   You can read what happened when I entered the previous event by selecting the “So You Want to be an F1...

I’m back in the driving seat, well soon anyway.   I’m waiting for my regular karting buddy to book a holiday day so we can go karting again.   You may remember that this years F1 Drivers’ Challenge was supposed to start after the British F1 GP, but I haven’t heard anything from them yet.  I emailed them two weeks ago but didn’t receive a reply.  I’ve emailed them again today and I’ll post more...

Edit: What a stupid name for a post. I thought it was good at the time. 20 Jan 2009. That’s it folks, I’m out of this competition. This round comprised 600 miles and nine hours travelling, £ 60 worth of fuel, another nine hours at the circuit, and all for only 6 laps. After arriving at Croft (a circuit in North Yorkshire), the 75 remaining contestants signed in and took our seats in the briefing room. On signing in we had been...

I won’t bore you with my work and personal commitments for this week, suffice to say it’s going to be busy. Blanche (my wife) leaves work early Wednesday so we can start our journey to North Yorkshire at 4pm. It will take 4.5 hours if the traffic is good. We’ll stay overnight, and we have to be at Croft Racing Circuit at 8:30am Thursday for Round 4 of the Shell Optimax f1 Drivers’ Challenge 06. This round is in...

It’s very busy at the moment. I’ve got the next round of the Shell Optimax F1 Drivers’ Challenge ’06 next week, and I’ve received notification of another competition that I can enter. I’m waiting for a call from a newspaper that want to write a piece on me, and I’m in contact with several new sponsors. The other competition is a corporate karting competition with a charity angle and celebrities...

So, what happened after the two races of Round 3? Well, all the drivers went to the hospitality suite and were told that we’d have to wait while the judges made their decisions. About an hour later, Tim Matthews (the promoter) came out and read out a list of names. These people were taken into a separate room. I wasn’t on that list. I assumed that these were the drivers that had gone through, but then Karen (Tim’s wife, I...