Mike and I left home at 7 and arrived in East London at 11. We were met by uncle mike for the short drive to the race track, in the new racing/work/entertainment van.
Uncle Mike and Chad had driven from Durban on the Thursday.
On arriving at the track, I thought the scenery was that of a golf course rather than a race track, as the views were amazing with the sea in the background.
Chad had a few practices then qualifying in the afternoon, qualifying 4th.
Racing was followed by a few drinks, before heading back to the B&B. We all stayed at a lovely B&B - you can see the view from our balcony, this is over looking Nahoon Beach. Definitely recommend for everyone to stay at the Blue Bend, when in East London.
A short distance down the road was The Blue Lagoon Hotel, where we walked for dinner, lovely food -unfortunately I had a spot of food poisoning, but perfectly fine in the morning, which turned out to be a good thing as it meant Chad, Mike and I headed off early and didn't return home at 2:30am with everyone else.
Back to the race track on Saturday, where Chad was racing 2 races one at 12:30 and one at 3. Today we went to the shops to buy some rolls etc. for lunch, as the prospect of another track hotdog was not inviting.
It was great fun to watch the racing, and Chad came 4th overall, after a spin off, but he was able to recover and finish the second race. Watch the video below (made from Mikes cell phone - so not tv quality).
It turned out to be a day of sport, along with the racing was the Sharks/Bulls rugby match and the FA cup final - which were shown on a big screen in the clubhouse.(unfortunately not the results Uncle Mike wanted).
This evening we travelled to Goubie to a pub, where you can buy Braai packs and cook your own dinner on the BBQ.
Sunday: Uncle Mike and Chad left early for the long drive back, Mike & I caught a shuttle to the airport with a couple of the other racing people.
Experienced huge gusts of wind at the airport, at one point walking across the runway to our airplane I grabbed hold of Mike, because I thought the wind was going to pick me up and blow me into the airplanes engines.
Arrived home at 4ish to downpours of rain, and a nearly overflowing swimming pool.
3 comments:
Looks as if the Youtube link is not quite working yet, I think it goes through some kind of checking thing before it can be shown on youtube.
Hopefully it work soon.
Good to see the family enjoying racing. Just wish I was there( as a spectator I might add). never raced on the circuit but did visit once I think!!
Ed/Dad.
Video is working now, just press play
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