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Chris in
the Winter Cup, Lake Garda
20 February 2008

The Winter Cup was attended by over 300 top
karters from afar away as the US, Brazil, Russia
and China, in fact one of Chris's team mates had
travelled from Japan to compete. In the KF3
group which is the top level of junior karting
in the world which Chris was entered in, there
was well over 100 entrants, after a couple of
days of practice Chris qualified 82nd, but as
his Team Director said " Don't be
disappointed these are the best in the
world."
The following days saw a number of heats, but
because of his poor qualifying position Chris
generally started towards the back and had to
learn quickly, and he did, each heat consisted
of 34 drivers and Chris had a number of good
finish's 13th, 16th etc. Improving as the days
went on, Chris managed to avoid elimination
in the later part of the week and qualified for
the
finals on the last day , Sunday 17th, needing to
come in the top 17 of the semi final in the
morning to progress through to the Grand Final
in the afternoon ,after sitting 12th for much of
the race Chris went into a corner too hard
stalled the kart, restarted it but lost 5
places, and then was involved in a bad accident
two laps from the end while trying to regain his
early position, he climbed out from under his
opponents kart that was on top of him , pulled
it to one side, restarted his own kart and
continued, but it was too late and the chance to
make the Grand Final had gone.
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