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Lastest forcast on AOL is for partly cloudy on sunday with high around 57. It just keeps getting better. I suspect that by sunday, it will be clear and sunny, highs in the 60’s and we will be laughing about the stupid weather forcasters again.
Most everyone will be at Bandimere this Sunday for the first of 7 CSC races. Come on over and find out what over 120 other racers do for weekend fun!
@Rich Vito wrote:
Run in the rain at steamboat?
Does that now mean we have to buy a set of rain tires for the finals?
Only if it rains 😀
Due to the nature of the event, Steamboat will run rain or shine. All the other events at the various tracks will NOT run in the rain. 🙁 ( We like the rain). They will be rescheduled to run at a later date. We already have an official rain date on the schedule for later in the year. This weekend we will be monitering the weather very closely and if it appears that Sunday just won’t happen, we will try to let everyone know so that our out of town racers don’t make the trip for nothing. However, as we all know, it can be snowing sideways in Colorado Springs and beach weather in Denver ( and vice versa) so just because its doing or not doing anthing whre you are, 20 miles away it could be entirely different.
Brake cleaner will do it. Check your graphics in a small corner to make sure the clear doesn’t attack the colors. If its just on the plastic, no problems.
It is not looking good at this point. But then again, this is Colorado. How many times have the weather guys blown it in the past? :idn:
Dennis,
There ahs not been a decison yet to make two Tag classes. However, it still stands just like we always have said. We need all the racers to show up and force us to have two classes. If we get enough racers at the first race, we will split the class into to Tag senior and masters. The weights will be per SKUSA/TAGUSA.
Last year CIK dropped that requirement for it was causing more problems than it was solving. Racers found that they could punt a guy from behind by using the bumper. It encouraged more contact, not less. It was more dangerious, not less. I find it interesting that he is requiring them on non-CIK classes, 80 junior, TaG, and Rotax. Come race in the CSC. You will have a lot more racers and your kart will be legal. It is where all the fast guys in the state will be racing. I expect that there will be at least 10 if not 20 or more racers in each class.
Tag weights are decided and have been decided for two months. They are SKUSA/TaG USA +20. The only way that will change is if SKUSA changes theirs or we split the class into a masters and senior classes. The only way we will split the class if 40 guys show up for the first race. If that happens, we will ask the racers if they want two classes.
@Mike Jansen wrote:
By the way, I’ve got some land I am trying to sell in Florida too.
Above or below the water table?
Graeme
I have 5 boxes of used YHC from this past year. (Worthless now that both boys are on YHB). All of them have one race on them and all of them could do one or two more. Of course I ran a new set every weekend as I wanted to run up front. If you run yellows, you will buy new tires for every race weeknd if you want to run up front. New tires are good for a couple of tenths over used tires and if you need every thenth, you put on new tires regardless of the life left in your old tires.
Costs are not a concern for those who want to run in the front, we spend what ever we have to in order to get there. It is not guys like us that I’m concerned about. No matter what the rules, no matter what the costs, we will be in front because we will do what ever we have to to stay there. But the guys on a more limited budget, the guys who can barely afford to get a new set of tires every other weekend, that is the guy who benifits from a hard tire rule. It is that guy who gives us grids of 15 + racers and its that guy who makes the event sucessful. It is that guy who we should be most concerned about.
I will offer this, if the 410 weight stays, I would support letting the tire spec for the heavy/old class only drop to 50. :cheers:
Last year, the one man who ran G1 nationally, ran the pro class! The guys who want to run heavy are not mythical, they are very real and they have talked with me. Our heavy/senior class should be for the guy who is racing for giggles and grins. You want to run fast, low weight, sticky tires, run in the pro class. That is what Sam Walls did last year.
One more time on tires. We had this great debate last summer when we found that the Yellow compound had changed from a harder compound to a softer compound. Much of that debate took place on this forum. We decided at that time, we would allow the Yellow to continue becasue we had many racers who already owned tires and to make them illegal in the middle of the year would create an undue burden on them. At the time, we also made it clear that we would correct the problem this spring. And we did exactly what we said we would do.
To call the class a “heavy” class and be only 10 pounds more is a joke. Two classes only 10 pounds apart running exactly the same pacakge is just an excuse to hand out more trophies. It doesn’t encourage increased participation which is why you add classes, not to hand our more trophies.
The senior heavy class is for drivers who are over 40 and/or over 200 pounds. Yet a 200 pound driver is going to be up around 410 and will not be competitve. At 395 what your really saying is that it for old skinny drivers and not really for heavy drivers.
The series is supposed to be an inclusive series that ensure the maximum participation from all drivers. We have a fast class with sticky tires and light weight, its called a Pro class. Almost every guy who is asking for the lower weight could make the 385 weight to run Pro. We need a heavy/old class for the recreational driver who is carrying a few extra pounds who can’t/doesn’t want to take on the extra expense of putting new tires on every race weekend. At 410 and hard tires we have exactly that!
Jim
At the meeting, we agreed to a durometer spec based off the YHC. The tires listed on Angie’s rules on this site are within that spec. As far as I am concerned, that is what we agreed to and thats what we got. If the guys want to change that, they have to change the durometer spec to a level that will include the tires they want (MG yellow) However, if they do that, ALL tires that meet that spec must be included. That opens the door for different Vegas, Gold tires and the YHB B’stones.
The reason for specing a hard tire is to give those racers who can not afford or do not want to buy new tires every time out a competitive tire. The hard tire rule is for the weekend, lets have fun racer, not the lets go fast at all costs racer. We have a Pro class for that guy.
My opinion, if you want to run soft tires and a low weight, run the Pro class. Thats what its for.
