TECH AT CSC

[Anonymous]

Thanks Angie! 🙂 It’s all about Safety and Fun!
My oldest started out in quarter midgets-@ that time it was required for all novice drivers to attend a teaching/practice session during the week before a race. This would tune the new drivers prior to a race and instruct them on the meaning of the flags , where to brake prior to entering the pits, etc,. My seven year old who is in his 2nd yr, was tagged twice by the same newbee, and when he entered the scales he had tears and fear in his eyes. So perhaps being proactive would help. Just a thought!

[Anonymous]

When all things are considered, I think the first CSC event went pretty well and we should all remember it is a work in progress. Regarding the kid kart class, I happen to believe that those who happen to watch that class saw some of the best racing of the day. Yes, there was a huge disparity in speeds and a lot of that can be attributed to both inexperience drivers and pit crews. (I saw many kid karts with 89 tooth sprockets, stock air boxes, stock mufflers, etc and those karts are just not gonna run, even with an experience driver, like that ?legal? modified engines.) The top five karts had all raced last year and a few of them raced the year before that so both parents and drivers within the top 5 are very experienced.

Did I mention I thought that it was some of the best racing I saw all day?? It was obvious to me that the Cook?s didn?t have the fastest karts out there but boy could both those kids drive/race through all that slower traffic and did you notice, not one within the lead group hit, spun out, or drove over their fellow competitors?? As most know, Bandimere is a difficult track to pass on and those young drivers and their parents should be praised for this. :sun:

Regarding the ?cheating,? for the most part I believe that it was inexperience drivers and parents who don?t know our unusually rules yet. (Last year, it took Conner and me half the season to get up to speed and compete, and I believe you will see this type of progression happen again this year as both parents and drivers gain knowledge and experience.) Does all this mean that there was no cheating?? No, because there was no tech to absolutely say for sure. If you are gonna have rules you need, at the very minimum, periodic tech too. As Brad has mentioned it doesn?t take much to check for ?illegal? clutches, carb and intake manifolds and in addition, I would like to add, for those kid karts that do drill out their muffler/exhaust you can easily check to see if they are running both piston rings instead of just one by looking straight down the muffler (By using this method, I personally saw 4 kid karts last year running only one ring).

What seemed to really upset the two parents who talked to me was the fact that the obvious WKA violations where not enforced. I am not saying that these karts shouldn?t of been allowed to participate i.e., DQ?ed, but at least if we say we are following WKA rules they should have been warned to fix this before the next event or they will not be allowed to race. According to these parents, JB said he wasn?t going to do anything about this particular violation and wouldn?t explain why (this is somewhat hearsay since I wasn?t there for those conversations). What was this safety violation? Two of the fourteen karts where not running WKA legal rear bumpers. :look

In dealing with these particular violations: if we have decided on all the exception to the WKA rules, and the authorities who run these events happen to miss some of these “violations” during pre-tech, then at least the parents who happen to point these oversights out should not be blown off and their consideration should be addressed if not immediately at least by the time of the next race event.

My 42 cents,
don

[Anonymous]

Brad, I totaly agree with you on this issue. My problem is, it appeared to me you were attacking the credibility of one of the most honest people I know, and someone who spends every last moment helping and teaching everyone elses kid, when he himself, needs help getting ready for a race.

I have set aside my racing this year to support my son and his goals in Tag senior, I have spare time at the races, and would be more than happy to assist you at every CSC race, to post inspect the top three karts in the kid class. If you are interested please contact me and we can put a post tech program together for the kid class. [email protected]

And to the parents of kids in this class, keep it stock. The beauty of this class is that you should never have to spend 500 to 1000 dollars to get your kid in the top 3. Let the track owners implement a program to assure you that cheating will not be tolerated and the integrity of this class will be upheld.

Doug Swann

[J.B. Olmstead]

So , mabey we should add a “SUPER-KID” class !
Just joking , All the kids are “SUPER” in my book !
J.B.

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