Very pleased to say last Wednesday Sam took his Association of Kart Racing Schools (ARKS) Test and passed. Having tried last year, this return trip to Rye House was a bit of catharsis. With no previous experience at Rye, it probably wasn’t my best idea to just go and expect Sam to be up to speed on that circuit. The requirement for the driving part of the test is to be within 10% of a mid grid time. On Sam’s first attempt we couldn’t get times down under 48s. Sam didn’t even get chance to sit the paper part of the test.

This time around Sam was more prepared, having done a practice session a week or so ago and lap time down to 44s, things were looking up. Sam sat the paper test first, only getting one question wrong and 100% on his knowledge of the flags. The driving part turned out to be a breeze just 10 laps observed and the examiner was happy. In fact he remarked it was one of the most convincing test he’d seen!

Within the hour the MSA Licence application was in the post!