WOW!! My apologies for not responding sooner… my only excuse… Holidays. I hope everyone had a Merry Christmas and Happy New Year!
First, has the meeting been set in stone so to speak?? It just has to be getting close according to JB?s initial post and besides we can discuss a lot of this there too (I hate writing).
The Honda motor suggestion: I understand where you are coming from Angie especially now that I bought Conner the Animal motor for Christmas, and now I am reading about this MiniMax which is the first I have heard of it. As Doug mention about my suggestion of Honda motors; those were some of my motives since money is an issue for many of us and it is my understanding from reading and talking to others you can do more for less money with a Honda than a Briggs. (Besides it is my understanding that we are the odd balls here in America. Everywhere else in the world in four cycle karting, Honda is the dominate motor not Briggs.)
This MiniMax issue is very interesting engine-role reversal. I would have loved to run the 80cc Comer but in my opinion it can?t compete with the Briggs at that weight limit set, and to be fair I think they should drop the weight of Comer 80?s so they can be competitive. Yes, I know that someone brought up the fact that in the final CSC championship race a Comer took third place, but I believe that had more to do with driver?s skill than motor. At every other race we attended last year, no Comer placed in the top three within Junior 1 (Maybe that has to do with drivers skill too, but I believe it is a HP and torque issue). Now, it sounds like this MiniMax has more HP than the Briggs and will do to them what they are doing to the Comer. If it is true that the MiniMax will run within the Junior 1 class this year and it does have more HP, then don?t we have to address this with weight and/or restrictor plate so that it is truly competitive again?? I really hope that they leave everything the same and run these in a different class since I now own an animal. Maybe we can start saving money now to get one of these MiniMaxes for next year.
To John Ferguson, I think if you and your daughter want to run in the Kid Kart class that is great!! Depending on the size of your daughter you may be fighting a weight issue and if she ever does get bored in that class you can move her up to Junior 1 class.
Regarding Kid Karts: it would have help me and other ?new karting fathers? to this class last year to have ?guidelines? to look at, and so I have written some up and had two other Kid Kart dads look them over. I will post them in a separate kid kart group for those who are interested. Remember, I am not trying to upset anyone, but to help out beginners to this sport, and since we were total beginners last year and thus I know what it feels like, and since we won?t be in this class this year so I have no self-serving motives, my only intent is to help the other ?newbie? dads to this sport get up to speed faster than I did.