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bennys blogCarpet wars  and Cyclone tcs first major race 
well it started badly on sunday when i had to be woke up at 4.45 ! then dad pulled a muscle in his back. when we got there at 6.55 i had to carry my tool case up 3 flights of stairs  i was in the first heat and was a little dissapointed. so i went out for a quick practice and i was miles quicker then them so i pulled it off. then for the first round of qualifing i started off 2nd by the 2nd corner i was infront then by the 5th lap i had lapped everybody. then a back marker got in my way when i was lapping them i hit the corner our spur gear came loose on the layshaft and it stopped just before the straight and someone hit it full speed and broke a wishbone, hinge pin. lost 2 shims and i would like to say thanks to cam and his dad for lending us the parts to get me out for the next qualifing. for round 2 i started last but drove like a demon  and got through every one and that was my best time. the other two rounds i kept on crashing and making mistakes
but round two was good enough to put me 5th in the C final (25th out of 50)
we only had one final it was make or brake i started well i had a really good race with other people made a few mistakes and i ended up 6th
totaly enjoyed the day out very good fun great facilities 4 plasmas screens able to watch F1 good food would recomend maratime race way to anybody.
and me and my dad would like to say a BIG thanks to cameron and his dad for helping us out.
keep watching to find out how i do in B.I.W.S as unalble to go to rug racers
Ben
Plus car was handling brilliant and fast all day im very happy with it and i think i have made the correct choice
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B.I.W.Swell all i can say that it is different racing on an athlethics warm up track. it is like driving on ice.
only got two 5mins pratice on sunday as we couldnt pratice on saturday.
my racing all day didnt go very well.
round 1 :
won my race but only got 17 laps
round 2 :
came last broke a axel drive pin
round 3 :
was going very well could of got into the A final but as i mormaly do i crashed and went crud so pulled off and got 15 laps
made the C final 7th then it went worse 
first final taken out on 2nd corner went to last but caught up and finishe 5th
2nd final :
started 7th but got through straight away then i was 2nd i was quickly catching up 1st place then i took him out and decided to wait then i pulled away very quickly and i was leading for about 4 mins it was the best drive of my life, car was handling superb with a bent turnbuckle i was flying. i came to 2 back markers, i tried to pass them then i clipped the corner and snape the drive shaft race was over. with my fastest lap time i did in that race i would of got 3rd in the A
overall evjoyed the day and racing evethough i had bad luck
the track is very unforgiveing if you made any mistakes
Ben
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2nd round of B.I.W.Swell it is the 2nd round of the B.I.W.S and i was thinking have i made the wrong choice getting this car ? should i of got a different car ? or kept the same. and i was scared coming in to the second round after what happened last time.
when we got there i found that the track was different it looked so hard but was actualy really easy and i got the hang of it really quickly.
first round of qualifing and i had a bad heat and it was hard to get through everyone. for the first round i finished 2nd after leading it most of the way untill the end.
second round of qualifing it was much better people moved out of my way and i came 1st and got 18th overall
third round of qualfinig i started from the front and lead all of the way and i drove as well as i could and i only made one mistake when i made that mistake the drive shaft pin came out but i still carried on and got a 21 lapper and got 9th in the b and my main raval cam! got 7th in the b
first round of finals cam got the lead from the start and kicked ass! and i spun out in the first corner going down to 10th but i drove very well and got 4th over all
and for the finals cam won again from the start lol. but i spun out again but i caught up and i was 3rd then made a few mistkes and got hit a bit and i finished 7th. then i finished 7th overall on 11 pts and so did 6,5,4 i think
after the 2nd round of the B.I.W.S me and my dad have both had a long think and we have decided we are hopefully going to get the xray 009 for christmas
eventhough i have had some good results with my new car but we think we have made the wrong move. so when we get it we will test them both (back to back) and whatever one is better we will keep. i think i will get on really well with the xray and it looks soo nice
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well it is the 3rd round of the B.I.W.S and i was excited going into this event as i had only just got my team drive for mirage a few days ago.
well when we got there we were allowed to sit with the mirage team it made me feal like i was one of the best driver around
for the first round of qualifing i started of 1st in the 6th heat i was a bad start to the day but i knew i would do better next time.
round 2 and i started off 6th and i basically lead right from them start i didnt make a mistake and the car was brilliant i got a fast time and it put me 5th in the B.
round 3 for some reason i started 4th and i crashed a bit and i thought i wouldnt improve but i did. then i went over to look on the sheets to see if i made the B and i did i was 8th.
for the first round of the finals it was ok but i should of done better then i ended up finishing 8th
2 final. form the start it was bad then it got better. right at the start i got taken out but this schumacher. i was very far behinde but i no time i had caught up to them and in the end i think i finished 6th
so over all it was a good meeting, i got to sit with the mirage team, i made the B final, i beat cam as he wasnt there, and hopfully i impressed Ben
P.S: I am now happy with my cyclone and i think i will do very well in the future and hopefully it will win a juniors
Young Ben =]
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B.I.W.S Juniorswell today it was the B.I.W.S Juniors .
and it started off good as we had loads of grip.
round 1 i won my heat and i had pole
round 2 i won my race again and i had pole again but my car failed scrutinering becasuse i had the wrong tires on :( so i lost my best time
round 3 i got to 2nd and qualified 2nd in the end
it was down to the finals!
but they put the under 12s and under 14s together :(
so i ended up 7th on the grid
for the 1st finals i had a good drive and finished 2nd overall and 1st for the under 12s
2nd finals werent so good i made a few mistskes but i managed to finish 3rd overall and 2nd in the under 12s
me and this other guy had the same amount of points. and if they went to qualifing places he would win but if they go to fastest lap i will win ! and they went to fastest lap so i had WON !!!!!
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Well i havent had a blog entry for ages so i thought id better do one :)
Well as most of you know that i swiched cars after falling out with my cyclone to an xray. after we brought that we have had no problems since!! best car ever :) no wonder why it wins car of the year.
so it has came to the end of the asphelt season and the start of the carpet season. i am genna try and keep up with the carpet season and tell you how well others and me do on carpet :)
hopefully it will all go well
will post back after the first round of carpetwars at maratime this weekend
thanks ben
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Well i said i would keep you updated :)
Carpetwars 7
well...well well
I wanted to come to maratime with a clean head on, forget about the bad results and start again.
[b][u]Saturday[/u][/b]
we arrived at maratime at 11 ish. got everything out but stupidly forgot to put additive on. oopps ! it was like driving on ice. so brung it off and put additive on, tried it again and much better :)
got the car sorted very quickly and was sooo good.
As Chris was doing 10.5 i thought i would go out with him and see if i was any good. well basically i sucked compared to him he wasnt no quicker than me just better lines and more corner speed. but i knew i would never beat the national champion.
so we went home with our heads held high, thinking how well i can do tomorrow.
[b][u]Sunday[/u][/b]
we arrived :) got the stuff up the stairs.
got everything out and waited for practice. i was in heat 10 3rd from top. it was a good heat :)
went out to practice and was alot quicked than all of them, so i was very happy. brung it off very happy. untill i saw the heats had been changed and i found out that i went down 2 heats for some reason :( it was the worst heat to be in. but i had to get on with it and show them i was to good for that heat.
round 1 lead from the start lapped most people had 1 bad mistake and got 2nd overall 12th very pleased.
round 2, started off 2nd went a bit faster but again made to many misakes. think i was 16th still good.
round 3 bad start went to 3rd got back up to secong an again to many crashes.
round 4 last round much better race but slower cars got in the way so i didnt improve.
i thought i was in the c. untill i looked at the results board and found out i was 10th in the b. that was good :) all i wanted to do was to make the b.
final car started off brill up to 4th :D but the some crud car took me out butthankfully he was niceenough to wait. we think a wheel came loose so i started to get understeer:( hitting every corner. not good finished 9th
atleast i did well as there was alot of good drivers there:)
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