@Rick Schmidt wrote:
Hey guys,
In the Rotax series. I doubt the california boys brought their highest level motors to size us up. Is everyone showing up with massaged motors? Is Roman going to be the only stock motor (provided we qualify of course) I’m starting to feel like were bringing a knife to a gun fight. Do these motors really have an advantage? Are we wasting time and money to think we can compete?
While this thread is fun to watch, please do not include any of us interlopers in the cannon fodder.
To address your post:
Waqar (the winner) brought his one motor to Colorado. It is the one that was on his kart, because without it, he wouldn’t go very far.
Ian (the TonyKart that went offroading) has 2 motors. The one that was on his kart was broken in the weekend before we came up there. It was brand new and out of the box when it was placed on the kart.
Gary (the CRG with terrible luck) has 3 motors and 3 chassis. He seemingly runs in circles trying to find “the setup”, as if the solution to his woes are anywhere else but in the driver’s seat. We have tested all three of his motors and chassis and have found the difference to be negligible. All the motors run in the same tenth. Now, if I could just get Gary to do the same.
I (#51 birel) brought my two motors. I run these and also use them as rentals. I own 2 chassis and 2 motors that I use for this purpose. If I am not racing it, it is being rented and vice versa. In fact, my other chassis was being used by Frank Powell in the International class when we came up there. One I have owned since it was brand new and ran it for an entire year before I rebuilt it. I ran it at the Regionals in August, the Nationals and the endurance race we won. The other came in as a trade in as a Jr. I got in a bind and cobbled it together with some parts a few months ago and turned it into a Sr. package. Both motors run in the same tenth.
In Rotax racing, the time is in the driving, the chassis and the carburetor. Unless it is just godawful and wornout, the motor is just along for the ride.
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