“Lap after lap you've got to be 100 per cent,” he asserted. “You can't make a single mistake or else you will touch the barrier.”
An ECU problem in qualifying restricted the 15-year-old to a lowly 19th position in the 36-kart field, but he had fought his way up into sixth place in the opening heat when the cylinder head blew off, and was classified eighth in heat two despite a somewhat unconventional finish.
“On the last lap I went up the inside of Mitchell Hale,” he explained, “but he turned across and snapped my trackrod. Max Goff then came up my inside into the chicane but I couldn't turn any more, which meant we had a really big coming-together.
“I still easily made it through to the final, but round that track when you start from the back it's really hard to get through because there are so few overtaking opportunities. I got up into tenth from 13th, but then when I came around Rascasse there was suddenly a big traffic jam ahead of me. I had nowhere to go and went straight into it, which bent the kart. I managed to get going again and worked my way onto the back of the pack with the black-and-yellow flags out, but the kart was too badly-damaged to keep going round and I had to come in.”
It was a disappointing outcome to a weekend that had promised rather more, but now Jordon's attentions have shifted to his final 2007 outing in the Playstation Ginetta Junior Championship at
Brands Hatch on 27-28 October, after returning to the sportscar series for the first time in more than three months around the Kent circuit's Indy layout earlier this month.
