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Ya know, I believe we will see this become reality for club level karting some time in our near future.
Coming from the bicycle side of things – carbon retains its original characteristics an order of magnitude longer than chromoly. Secondly, price – with the understanding that most of the carbon frames are coming out of the same handful of factories, including the generic ones, the material and manufacturing technology is available to keep the frame itself in the same general ballpark of price once the volumes pick up.
Couple these two facts and it would be cheaper for a season to run one carbon chassis over multiple chromoly chassis. It would take a little long for the non-national S1 level (club level) drivers to get their hands on the used chassis since there would not be multiple per season hitting the used market, but eventually they would make their way into club level racing at a reasonable price.
The challenge will be/is the development of a layup/design that mimics the characteristics of the chromoly frames available today (or adds some level of handling/tunability beyond what is available now). Forget about the aerodynamics for now.
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