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Must be all that polluted air blowing in from China, I talked with one of my dealers in New York this morning. It sounds like their event at Beaver Run this weekend was much like ours in grand Junction.
What happened? Can someone fill me in? I heard Dennis flipped?
That sounds about right Blink.
I think most of those 13 were all in the Mini Max class, they had the most carnage. The TaG Sr/Masters class was next in line with 3 nasty crashes within 20 seconds.My opinion:
Fast track, begining of the season, everyone’s a little amped to begin and viola. You have a few overly Agressive passes and accidents occur.
PLEASE, would you all learn (and teach your kids) what the flags mean! I don’t know what class it was (kadets???) but the remaining field was stopped at the start finish line and the back markers came through the final corner like they were on fire. That, was an accident I didn’t want to see and I turned my back. Darren, whatever you did to stop the carnage, thank you.
GJMS, you did a great job organizing and getting us gridded and such. Kudos to you.
Suggestion: Please, if a transponder isn’t working you’d know in a lap or two. Black flag those transponder pilots, give them a new one and then they (still) have time to qualify. This happened to me @ Bandimere last year so we need to improve on that (still)
Very few were spared damage in the Tag Seniors / Tag Masters Final. Even the Ambulance took a hit on the front stretch. Bent up Jays kart pretty bad.
I took a spin on the first lap m?l?e though the chicane, which took out Mike Janson. It looked like from my view someone two wheeled it and ran over him. After that I wasn?t in much contact to see the other accidents.
Why so many spin outs, flips, etc?
How was the grip level of the track?
I find that after being in Norman, Ok , our tracks here have barely any grip at all.
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Bingo to what Jansen said, it has been a while since a lot of people have raced and well…. But a very well run weekend, despite some issues, and the new SKUSA sanctioning moved things along well. Some people had complaints, but it’s the start of a new season, so everyone must be patient to allow time to get everything perfect. This has the potential to be a good year. Tech was there, fuel was teched coming off the track in qualifying, and I saw top 3 cylinders being checked and carb bores being checked as well. So this will help out everything. Hope to see more people in a few weeks at Bandimere.
@streets2trackracer wrote:
I find that after being in Norman, Ok , our tracks here have barely any grip at all.
The most grip I’ve ever seen in a track was 5 years ago, Canby, Oregon, PMT. The top class was running YGB tires (soft). The rubber was over 1 1/2″ thick in most corners. We were leaving tracks in it. After the race, a kid about 5 years old walked out on the track and got stuck, he couldn’t move. His older brother had to go out and pop him free.
The kids went out and picked up loose rubber and rolled it into balls the size of softballs and started throwing them at each other. Talk about pain.
Colorado tracks have never seen high grip, moderate at best.
Damn…….actually sounds like it must have been funny to see that little guy get stuck there. Good thing his bro got him out.
What parameters affect the level of grip?
Humidity, etc? OK seemed very dry…….so :idn:I think Mike is right about getting people to watch the flags. I was passed by two karts under a waving yellow flag while there was a stationary kart on the outside of the corner. Besides being against the rules, it’s an obvious safety issue. It’s also unfair. I didn’t make an issue of it yesterday since my kart was running so poorly, but if I had lost a good position that way I would have lodged a protest.
The rules for yellow flags should be reiterated at the next driver’s meeting.
Don’t even think about blameing any of the carnage we had to a low track grip issue. When we all have to run on a good hard compound tire, that would seperate the men from the boys, or the women from the girls, then you might have an issue.
I know many karts were a little tight, some even two wheeling.
If you think our tracks have a low grip problem, what are you going to do when you rain race?“It looked like from my view someone two wheeled it and ran over him”
I bet at least the guy that was two wheelen it didn’t think the grip level was too slick.
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