Josef Newgarden – Our Final Day in Ireland – More Karting!

Dublin, Ireland (October 27, 2008) – Conor and I were able to start off our final day in Ireland by catching up on some much needed sleep. After we finally woke up, Conor’s grandmother kindly made us a traditional Irish breakfast which was incredibly delicious. Seeing as his grandmother didn’t have Internet access, all of us walked down to the local Starbucks to catch up on some emails. Typical Starbucks — the place was packed! We were able to find a little spot in a back corner that was somewhat less crowded.

After that, we both felt we were up for some more karting, so we rang Peter [Dempsey] and the rest of the crew to see if they had some free time later in the evening. Once we confirmed who was going, I began to ring some karting tracks to find out availability. We found a little spot named Pudden Hill Karting that was located just a few miles from Peter’s house and booked it for 8:30.

Later in the evening we headed over to Cliff’s workshop where the guys were still prepping the cars for the upcoming event at Silverstone. Since the team had the advantage of us being there, we did a bit of corner balancing with us sitting in the cars. Once that was finished, we headed back to the Dempseys’ house for some dinner. We quickly had some grub and left for the karting track.

As always, we had a great time battling it out on the track together. Seeing as Conor and I had to catch a plane early the next morning and the fact that Cliff was right next to the airport, we ended up staying the night. We all watched a bit of racing on TV and did some chatting before going to bed. Constant racing on TV and enough karting to make you sick – man, I love Europe!