Now that this thread has simmered down (Thank God), I’d like to recap.
I started this thread in attempt to nip a potentially serious issue in the bud as it were. The Sonik engine has been on a probational status with TaG USA and there was, and perhaps still is the possibility (albeit now small) that the motor won’t get to the approved list in time for the ’04 season.
My intention was not to cause trouble for present or future Sonik owners. Rather, it was to avoid it. I know most, if not all the people currently running or planning on running the Sonik. I consider most of those people my friends. I have no desire to see them excluded from competition especially because of mismanagement in an area of the industry we have no real control over – like a distributor/importer not getting paperwork in on time. If things worked out that way, it would place Sonik owners in a real pickle – at least where strict adherance to TaG USA rules are concerned. I don’t care so much about TaG USA as I do the racing here in Colorado and wouldn’t stand for my firends getting weenied out of a racing season because somebody outside of our sphere of influence screwed up. I’m enough of a cynic to believe that a worst-case scenario could happen, and concerned enough to bring up the issue now in the hopes of averting a disaster.
So I posed the question: what would we do? That was my original intent with starting this thread. Fortunately AJ came forward say they had a copy on the engine’s specs. With that we could formulate tech standards for that engine, and with some comparative dyno work, come up with a reasonable weight penalty (if one was needed at all). So that’s fantastic! Thanks to AJ for making his information known.
The downside to the thread was the fact that it so rapidly degraded into something both off-topic and mean-spirited. A classic Colorado, Mile-High Pissing Match.
Winning a CSC championship fair and square would be a great achievement. Winning it because a particular engine package and some of the top competitors in the state were politiked out of competetion would be empty and meaningless. Implying that such was my intent (which GD did directly or indirectly and that’s how I took it) makes me a bit………..angry. It spoke directly to my character and integrity. I may not have either in great quantities, but I’d like to hang on to what little I may have.
Since my accident, hospitalization, and the judgement that getting back into a kart would not be in my or my family’s best interest (at least for the forseeable future), I’ve been working real hard to come up with a reason, the juice as it were, to stay in Colorado kart racing. That’s not to say that an incident like this gives me a reason to walk, but it does beg the question, what’s the real point here? Is it about racing or is it about something else? If it is something else, I’d prefer to be left out of it, because I got into this for the racing.
I may be sorry i posted this, but I just wanted to get that off my chest.