Soap Box, My Two Crashes

On friday after school i went to the soapbox hill because the team were doing trial runs of the course and stuff. The first person who went was Thomas and he did the run in around 30 seconds which was quite good. Then after Thomas went Kristopher went down but he went before Mr Watts was ready and so he wasnt timed.

Then it was my turn. I was quite nervous as i had never been in the kart before but i got in anyway and waited for Mr Watts to say go. I started going down the hill slowly to start with but it got much faster very quickly and in about 10 seconds the kart had the speed wobbles and i could feel the adrenaline all through my body.
At about two thirds of the way down the kart started to go across the white centre line in the middle of the road then i saw a little blue thing on the white line and i saw that the wheel was about to hit it so i steered away from it but that turned the kart to the barrier wall so i quickly turned sharply in the other direction and oversteered the kart across the road over the curb through somebodys garden (just missing a concrete letterbox) then across a driveway then through two of the neighbours bushes and straight through a tree then rolled to a stop on the tree owners front lawn.

About 3 seconds after i crahed 5 kids came flying out of house saying a mix of things like "Wow are you ok" and "What are you doing in my garden!" and i even had a little boy who asked if i was dead.

Then Mr Watts and the rest of the team came running down the hill after me. Mr Watts was the only one who asked if was ok the rest were laughing or swearing about the damage to the kart.After my crash we took the kart back up the hill nad loaded it into Mr Watts ruck cause we wouldnt be able to drive it again that night.

The next morning i went to the soapbox thing at 7 in the morning to try help fix my damages when the races started at 8 30.It only took about half an hour to fix the damage i caused but then we still had to make final preperations and double checkings etc.

Our first race was with Reon the year 7 and he had two races and won both of them which was a good lead for us. Then our second race was with Kristopher who lost but it was ok we still had more wins then losses then the next race was Sheas and he won it for us but it wasnt really hard for him as in the first three seconds his opposition drove up over the curb and onto the foot path.

Then it was my race Dunn Dunn Dunn. This time i was really scared because the only other time i rode it i crashed it but that didnt put me off enough to not do it.
The big man stood there counting down "3,2,1 Go!" The stand went down and my kart started going down the hill. everything was going awesome i was loving it then there was the finish line which i flew past and as soon as i did i slammed my foot on the brakes causing a screeching noise below me the kart was just starting to slow down when i heard a thud as the brake bad hit the roof of the kart. Oh no i have no brakes i thought to myself so i just thought id try let it roll to a stop and not crash. Then i realised there were hay bales at the bottom and i didnt realise they were there to crash into to make you stop safely so i tryed to dodge them (Oops) i got passed three then i turned very hard to doge the fourth (stupid stupid bubbles) which caused me to go off the road, past the footpath and into the fuel tank of a big worker truck used to take the karts back up the hill. After i crashed i slowly stood up out of the kart and was actually shaking from adrenaline and to my absolute surprise the thing that hurt the most were my fingernails.

As i got out three workers down there who lifted up the karts onto the truck i crashed into ran over to me and one asked how i was while the other two checked the truck, then i had two saint johns ambulance people come over to check that i was ok, i just said i had sore fingernails. Then i started walking back up the hill and met up with Moobs and Shea, Moobs was making sure i was ok then laughing that it was the second time i drove it and the second time i crashed while Shea was just swearing at me over the huge dent in the front of the kart.

Then i went to the top of the hill and helped fix it(while fixing we found the broken brake cable which made me crash which i get to keep as souveneir) then we did the next race, to my surprise as i thought was un fixable.

Then the rest of the day happened and i went home, i got to keep one of the broken wheels aswell.