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Nahhh, he put it on it’s side to check the muffler bearings :sun:
aw..thats gotta hurt… i sure hope that doesnt happen to me… my kart weighs 70 lbs more than me..lol
Actually, something like this did happen to me.
how did u get it to flip like that?
@ScottUmbright wrote:
how did u get it to flip like that?
Actually it was pretty easy. Clip 2 traffic cones with your side pod doing around 50 mph and you will find out just how easy it can be.
The kart snap-rolled sideways and got some air, too. Came right down on top of me. Bounced 20 or more feet down the track with me underneath it.
Clavical bone shattered into 5 pieces. Massive bruising and contusions on both knees, right rib cage, back and shoulders. 13 months later and the clavical is still not healed.
Upside is that there was no head/neck trauma. I was forced into retirement, but the kart – a GOLD Firefox 100 /Leopard – lived to race another day. Actually won a couple TaG Sr. Races with that wacky Irishman in the seat.
Sorry to hear that. I hope you will be able to recover well, even though you might not return to Karting. One good alternative for you to continue enjoying the driving is to try a PC Racing Simulation. If you are interested I do have some very good alternatives, very real, most of the real phisycs and with a good stearing wheel it makes it really interesting, plus there is a large online racing community that makes it even more interesting as you race with people from all over the world.
E-mail me if you are interested and I will be more than happy to chat with you.Get well soon and best of luck.
Thanx for the advice, but a sim simply won’t cut it any more.
After I decided my health was more important than kart racing I decided to give RC cars a try. As it turns out they are every bit as challenging as a kart and much more sophiticated. They are very satisfying in the tinkering department – an aspect of karting I really enjoyed. They can be cheaper to race than karts, but best of all you can crash the livin’ b’jesus out of them and nobody goes to the hospital.
@edupin wrote:
Sorry to hear that. I hope you will be able to recover well, even though you might not return to Karting. One good alternative for you to continue enjoying the driving is to try a PC Racing Simulation. If you are interested I do have some very good alternatives, very real, most of the real phisycs and with a good stearing wheel it makes it really interesting, plus there is a large online racing community that makes it even more interesting as you race with people from all over the world.
E-mail me if you are interested and I will be more than happy to chat with you.Get well soon and best of luck.
Hey Chaz, I found a picture of your career ending flip. Now maybe Scott will believe you. Hope all is well in RC land. Miss You.
I hope this works.[/img]Curt it didn’t work.
You know there are many different ways of flipping a kart.
The ones I hate the most are the endover style. They seem to get more air and land harder. There are good flips and bad flips. A good one you walk or even drive away, a bad flip like Chaz had you are taken away on the meat wagon.
Scott and Edupin, all it takes is your tire to touch my tire to set a flip in motion. I sort of hate to admit it, but flipping karts was part of my learning experiance while racing in classes of 40 plus racers on the streets of the midwest. The only thing worse than flipping is hitting solid things beside the race track, like telephone poles, cars and street signs.
My record is flipping in two different races on the same race day. The first flip of the day was a good endo flip with a right side up landing. The secound one hurt me.
I shure wish I had some pictures of all of them.@Curt Kistler wrote:
Hey Chaz, I found a picture of your career ending flip. Now maybe Scott will believe you. Hope all is well in RC land. Miss You.
I hope this works.[/img]Well the pic you posted wasn’t me. Remember my kart was blue? It also didn’t have a yamaha engine like the one pictured. I had a leopard.
Mine could have looked like that though, but I’ll never know – I’m still a bit hazy on the details until I got to St Anthony’s.
OUCH!!!
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