Design Haus recently competed in the SC90 Karting Challenge @ Team Sport Eastleigh. The group was divided into two teams, they were as follows:
Power Haus: Steve (Captain) Shelly Phil Stu
Danger Maus: Tom (Captain) Katie Ben Dominic
Danger Maus got off to an awesome start with Ben setting the pace immediately moving from fourth on the grid to first position. He edged out a 5 sec lead until our sworn enemies, Team Triangle started clawing back the time. Katie was dis-advantaged immediaetly due to Ben being stuck in the seat on the pit change (too many pies!) but recovered well to hold fourth position. Dominic was on the third stint and pulled off some aggressive overtakes until disaster struck and the wheels fell off (literally!).
Power Haus got off to a horiffic start with Phil blowing the engine within the first few laps! (lead foot!) Their luck then got worse with a wheel falling off Shelly's kart too! Steve then took the wheel and proceeded to intimidate the competition out the way! Sadly, we didn't get a pic of Steve's hand gestures! Stu took off on the third stint and set some seriously quick times until a rival team took him out with a shunt up the backside (oo er!).
Coming down to the final 20 mins and Tom and Phil went head-to-head. Tom quickly got into a rhythm and set the fastest lap of 26.081 (beating Ben and Steve's earlier benchmark of 26.4s)!
15 mins from the end, the digital leaderboard broke leaving the whole paddock in disarray! When it came to the medal presentation, the tension had reached breaking point... To all our suprise, Power Haus were awarded third! Boos and hisses rung out from the crowd (mainly from the Danger Maus camp)! It was clear to see that Danger Maus were ahead on the road! In the end, power haus were removed from the podium, their medals taken away. A just result I'm sure you'll all agree!
FYI - This post was written by Ben (a Danger Maus team member)
