@blink wrote:
What do you think the Nations cup was?
I think it was a joke to call it a “national” event.
@blink wrote:
When you have to spend $7000 on one shifter engine to be competitive, or have to buy a new animal engine every three races, you run off 90% of your possible new karters. TAG is even expensive to get into but at least the engines last for a while.
You couldn’t be more correct. The bottom line to get into karting now is a joke. It is killing karting worse than anything right now.
We agree on far more than we disagree. For you, if the CSC didn’t exist, your club program would improve. But what about the sport as a whole? MX is strong for some of the very reasons you point out. You can finance a bike but you can also ride it at a dozen different tracks around the state and you can ride it down the street. More tracks doesn’t seem to have hurt MX bikes, why do you automaticly think it will hurt karting?
I think more tracks will keep karters in the sport longer because they have more places to play. With fewer tracks, if a guy gets bored with only game in town (or pissed off), he’s gone. With more tracks, we might keep him in the sport.
I think lower costs will help keep karters in the sport longer. Classes like stock moto are a strong step forward to helping reduce engine costs. The motor we just finished cost me $3200 and should last all season. And its only 4 or 5 hp below the best of the built ICC’s. I’m doing my part. I make quality products and sell them for less than any OEM part out there.
You are right, we need more karters. The best way to get them is more options, not fewer and lower costs. Cut throat competition won’t help anyone but cooporation will help everyone.