Lodge Sports Racing

What a great weekend with the cayman for the team. Another podium in race race after a thrilling race finishing just half a second behind the winner 🏆 🏁

And it’s a win for race 2 in what turned out to be an eventful race of 2 parts. Starting from 2nd on the grid Steve made a blistering start to take the lead into the first corner only for the red flag to come out due to a Boxster turning over out of the 3rd turn. On the restart Warren the pole sitter jumped the start earning a 10 second penalty with Steve coming home just over 2 seconds behind to take the win. Steve now starts from pole in the 40 minute race tomorrow, let’s hope we can keep up the podium streak 🏁🤞

We’re at Croft today for the Calm Porsche Trophy with our Cayman. A damp qualifying with the wrong tyres on and a misfire resulted in Steve starting a lowly 10th on the grid but by the 2nd lap Steve was up to 2nd and held that until the flag. One more sprint race to go at 5:30 then a 40 minute race tomorrow. Wish us luck 🏁

The races are on YouTube via the link below:

https://www.youtube.com/live/LQqhe8s3K0U?si=wncZAsw1nxCEp5py

https://www.youtube.com/live/YelkW37hhk4?si=bZEuK-QuYa3LXc2T

We’ve took the engine out of our 996 GT3 Cup car for a full check over after it took some stick at Daytona. Glad to report the gearbox is like a Swiss watch inside, just some oil seals to replace. 🤞 the engines in the same condition. Some great Porsche engineering even in these early Cup cars.

Our first race of the season will be with the Cayman next weekend at Croft in the Calm Trophy but we’ve already been out with Joseph’s kart in Junior Rotax at Hooton Park where he finished a respectable 6th place. Still lots of setup work to do though before his next race.

Some more additions to spruce up the workshop 🏁

Some new additions to the workshop 🏁

And we’re all set!! Still lots to do but the ramps are installed and we can get on with the pre season prep 🏁

More progress on the new workshop today. Tyre bay is in, engine shop benches are in and nearly ready, the stores are in place and the kart workshop is nearly finished. All ready for the ramps to go in Monday. 😀

We’re moving!!! Work is well underway on our new workshop nearby in Denton. This will be a totally new era for the team. We’ll have plenty of space for lots of future projects. Watch this space 😉🏁

We’re back from Daytona after an amazing week of motorsport for the team. We went there for the experience but came away with 3rd overall in our group. Along with that we had a win, a second and a third in the sprint races and a 2nd in the BRM enduro race. The car just kept going which is a huge credit to the team who stayed up for the full 24 hours keeping on top of any issues and getting the car ready for each race. One of our greatest achievements as a team up there with winning championships 🏁🏆