OK, I was asked to layoff Brad so I will but the fact still remains that the Rotax dominates IMI, runs real well at GJMS and is a dog at Bandi and Steamboat – that makes it bad at 3 of the 7 races, decent at 2 of the 7 and great at 2 of the 7 – not real sure how you would do the math but I’m sure somebody can come up with some fuzzy math to say that the rotax is either great or poor depending on their perspective.
Here’s the bottom line: If you take a great driver, a great chassis setup and a mediocre engine you should win the majority of the races. If you take a great driver, a great setup and a great motor you should win more races. If you take a decent driver, a decent setup and a decent motor you will be competitive. If you take a decent driver, a decent setup and a poor motor (ie rotax at bandi) you will get poor results everytime. My point is a little vague so I apologize. I guess my point is that everything is never equal in karting or racing in general…you will always have one variable that makes a racer better (ie motor, chassis setup of driver) the difficult part about Tag is that it tries to level the playing field by manipulating one variable (motor). This is an impossible task and needs to be scrapped as soon as possible. Use my suggestion from earlier and add weight to the top 5 after each race (track specific only). Doug has the most logical argument, and that is to practice more. Not sure if any of you watched ‘Pinks’ tonight, but Ron White and Memo Gidley raced head to head in order to take on a “stock broker”, well that stock broker turned out to be a decent shifter pilot but still lost to Ron – why? Because Ron is a better driver! They had the same 125cc shifter motors, one was on a GP chassis and one was on a CRG – there really wasn’t any setup to the chassis (they only had to make 1 turn) and I believe they both had identical italian motors. You took 2 of the 3 variables out and driving won. I think I’m done rambling and in this there is a point. Good luck finding it.
Angie – I can’t figure out how to update my information, help!