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I think that if you did a pure CIK interpretation of the rules, any modifications from the homologation papers would be illegal. That would mean that putting in any form of support for the foam would not pass muster.
However, that seems a little harsh for club type racing. As Curt pointed out, it certainly wouldn’t be a performance advantage, if anything, it would be the opposite. And it certainly would help the racer to have better and consistant filtration, particularly at some of our dustier tracks in terms of engine life. Its a shame that we get stuck with products that basicaly are not very good because the rules require them.
I would support the type of “modification” Curt suggests. I don’t see a down side.
George
We do want to make it down as we would like to see how we stack up againest other Rotaxs. Greg and I think it would be fun. However, this weekend is graduation so Greg will be playing in the high school band for that on Saturday and we are going rafting on the Delores river.
For those that don’t know, the Delores maybe the best raft trip in Colorado, it is the most consistant class III and IV white water in the state. The river has not had enough water in it to raft since 2001. Any thing over 2,000 cfs is good and right now its flowing at 3,000+ cfs! Its just too good to pass up. The water may not be this high for another 10 years.
Sorry George, maybe next time. We do want to come down and will before the summer is out.
I think part of the problem was timing. I know for us, coming this late in the school year made it difficult. We didn’t want to miss any school so close to the end of the school year. I’m sure we weren’t the only ones.
The other thing is that karting in general is down and the high price of travel (gasoline) certainly doesn’t help. Even the CSC at Bandimere was down compared to last year (but up from the first year).
You’re right, Black Rock is a fine track and they really treat you well over there. We hope to be at the Black Rock Summer Shootout.
@Freezeman wrote:
The problem is no shops or tracks around here want to cater to racers that have no budget to spend on racing. Hummm sounds like a loosing business plan I would jump into.
Now that’s funny! 😀
There is another problem with seperating classes at the starts you guys maybe over looking. It’s just that much sooner before the fast guys catch the back markers of the slower karts. In the two classes I watched where the leader(s) were taken out by lapers was when they caught a solitary kart. If you put a lot of seperation between the classes, it’s just that much quicker laped traffic comes in to play.
In Tag senior/Tag Masters the difference between the fast and slow guys was more than 5 seconds. Given the usual and inevitable spins, this means that tte leaders were in lapped traffic by 8 laps. If we had seperated the starts by only 10 seconds, it would only make the problem come after 6 laps!
The obvious and best solution is for us to do two things. Eliminate classes that are poorly attended. The traditional cut-off is 3 karts. For an event such as the CSC, maybe it should be 4 or 5. Yes some classes maybe well attended at this or that track, but are they well attended for the series? If not, they should be eliminated. If they are strong at a particular track, then that class is clearly a club class, not a regional class.
The second is to eliminate the 2nd practice and get the show rolling before 9:30AM. It can be done. The morning practice should be a 5 minute warm up, a 15 minute drivers meeting and then, lets get it on. We can gain 2 full hours this way which would allow more classes to run on their own and eliminate or greatly reduce the combining of classes.
I use white lithum grease. Like Duff said, use only a very small amount. The only time its spining is when you first start. After that, its locked up.
@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.
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.
Stacey
What about just the rear panel? We have our numbers built into our graphics based on license level and I really don’t want to put something over them. (side panels and front drivers panel)
