31/08/2026
PF International Race Report
TESTING (Saturday) 🌧☔️
It was a wash out, on lap times Oscar finished P28/35 in session one (spun 3 times) and then finished P17/35 in session two with no spin outs, would have gone faster in a canoe!
It would prove to be a complete waste of time as on race day we would spend the day bathed in sunshine.
Race Day (Sunday - Live streamed on Youtube)
PRACTICE ⛅️
The track had dried out completely by the time our session started and Oscar was now looking very competetive. The objective is to make the A final, top 22 in qualifying later will go through and in this practice session Oscar finished P10/26 in his group, comfortably in the top half and he had done it on his own with no slip stream. We were told afterwards if he had a slipstream he "easily could have been top 5". So things were looking positive as the sun begun to shine down on us.
QUALIFYING 🌞🌞
Oscar knew in this session to remain tight on the bumper of the kart ahead, a small gap formed as they left the pits which Oscar closed over the first lap. He should have known then, he was in a group of 3 but the pace just wasn't there for either of them like it was in practice, kart selection luck when every thousandth counts is vital, and it appeared to have deserted these 3 drivers. Oscar fell to P18/26 mid race before clawing his way back to P11.
So we had to sit and watch group 2 go out next and pray Oscar's lap time was enough to place him P11 or better in that race 🫣...
The race had finished, Oscar's time placed him right on the edge, yes in P11, all 10 drivers ahead had crossed the line, just 2 drivers behind us in P14 and P16 were still on track completing their last laps.
Do I need to say anymore? Yep Oscar was knocked down to P12 right at the last second, we would be starting P1 in the B final, our 100% A final record on tracks we're returning to looked over, but then came the news, we had qualified in P21, not P23, I can only think 2 drivers must have got penalties that were not showing on the live timing app.
We had made it, we would be starting P23 of 24 in the Pre-A final 🥳🥳🥳
PRE-A FINAL 😃💥😫
Despite being in grid position 21/24 Oscar was P23/24 before the drivers had even reached the tram lines, so 2 positions had already been taken from him and by hairpin 1 on lap 1 he was last place 😫
However what came next was some brilliant racing from him as he made 3 positions round hairpin 2 and then began to work his way through the pack 😃
After a good battle with Joshie Wood Oscar would pull away closing a good distance to the pack ahead before making a couple more positions up to P16 🥳
But then as I agonisingly watched on from trackside Oscar just kept leaving the door open, especially down the ramp and into hairpin 1, he kept staying wide to the left and begun to fall back down the pack as driver after driver took the opportunity he was handing them on a plate.
And then the inevitable happened, Oscar again left the inside open and got pushed out over the grass and into a barrier forced into last place and causing a full course yellow while martials rebuilt the furniture. I wasn't impressed at all with him, he never should have been in that position and only had himself to blame.
After the race he said the kart had zero top end speed (which another driver confirmed) which is why everyone was just driving past him, I told him "so drive on the inside and defend your position", let's just say he didn't speak to me much after that, a tension formed and he even blatantly ignored me several times (can be great fun at times being a parent) 👀 But I knew what I was doing, I know he drives at his best when tensions and pressures are high!
A FINAL 🌞😎💪🏻
I said nothing to Oscar as he got into his kart, simply helped with the set up and just walked off, didn't encourage him, just left him with the sarcastic words "you do what you gotta do" ringing in his ears which I had said 10 minutes prior as I laid the same ignorance he had shown me back upon him.
He was starting P23/26 and this time fought through a cluster of karts to secure the inside line into hairpin 1 where he made up 4 positions!
This time Oscar wasn't going to start slipping backwards, what I had tried to advise him on had got through, he was defending the inside everywhere he needed to and throughout a brilliant race he would go on to finish P14/26 on track and be promoted up to P12 after penalties earning him, albeit by just 1 position, his best Club100 round finish to date, so so close to the top 10!
After the dissapointment of not being photographed celebrating his last to first win over the finish line at Llandow a few weeks back he pulled off a great pose in celebration of his race result here and fingers crossed the photographers captured it 🤞🏻
Next up in under 2 weeks we're at LYDD on the south coast for round 6 of the south championships, bring it on!
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