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If my english is correct let me see if I’ve got this right.
CSC stands for Colorado Sprint Championship. I’m not being arrogant but they choose to come here. I for one don’t elect to go Miller and after the flip flop on tire choices at the shootout I know I won’t be going there anytime soon.
Limit the amount of State races and Club racing will again flourish
Rich,
I looked in the “Book of Excuses” and your reasons were numbers 527, 682, 1003, 29 and 47.
You can do better than that!
PS Just because we don’t HEAR OR SEE everything that is happening doesn’t mean it’s not happening behind the scene…
Hey Rick and Brad:
I’ve got a great idea that you all should give serious consideration; get yourselves Billy Bob Teeth and y’all arrive wearing them with some Good Ole American flagged T-shirts. I’ll GAR RUN TEE you’ll get noticed for all the good reasons! Then when you smoke em at the race you’ll only upset the French more.
(please go to La Rascassse corner and go to the restaurant there, the corner IS named that due to the restaurant and the place is a cathedral to Formula One)Have fun, kick butt and enjoy a once in a lifetime memory. And I want to see a photo with your Billy Bob smiles! Take lots of photos!
I thanked JB towards the end of the day and told him congrats on a well run day. Staging and prestaging went well and kudos once again to the flag crew. I got home at a reasonable time and didn’t know what to do with myself.
Again, good job JB, Sue, Ann Louise and the crew. And the weeping puddle made for dirty visors. 8)
Angie:
Did they Tech Troy Howell in TaG Masters? He must have been using some of that Garwood fuel! That’s got to be a kart record for time and speed at Bandimere! Wow…
that’s great and i’m glad to hear he’s okay. Would you please let me know when he goes back since i’ll bake granola bars and he can take em with him…
:cheers:
Hey Brian,
Good post with a great deal of thought and suggestions. I second the recreational rental racer. I would love to see THAT come to fruition. Why the track owners haven’t done it is beyond my comprehension. Maybe I’m missing something but it’s a no brainer! I think there would be at least 5 entries!
My path is similar. I’d gone to driving schools and had fun doing it. Golf was competitive but not “gladiator” competitive enough and i (was) a good golfer till I started this sport. I met a guy at the gym in a Ferrari hat and a karting Tshirt and we talked. Then I rented twice at IMI and met the gym guy there. Make a long story shorter, Sam Walls was instrumental in getting me started and God knows I asked him and others plenty of questions. This crowd is truly a bunch of good eggs!
Hope to see you out there. Ask away and I’ll be more than happy to help you. I call it payback to something I truly enjoy doing when I’m not working! :cheers:
Rich: Now that you’re employed let’s see ya back at the tracks okay? Good job on getting a job. :cheers:
I wouldn’t make a good dictator, I race and that would be a conflict of interest! And I don’t have enough experience in the middle classes, namely the junior program!
I (hope) that Bandi has bails in the places that Charles was talking about. Dodging rocks isn’t fun…
Jed, Ellie, Jethro, JB:
First of all, same direction as last time?
Most important: If we are going the same direction will there be numerous haybales at the kink/corner after the hairpin at the top? I dodged a fist sized piece of asphalt last race and don’t wish to repeat that again. A few people in TaG Masters were going “offtrack” through the dirt.Those that ignore history are doomed to repeat it. That being said let me point out a few things that will perhaps “shine” on a few people.
Successful racing series: F1, Nascar, British Touring Car series to name a few
Unsuccessful racing series: Champ Car, IRL, majority of karting sanctioning bodies
Please note the successful series have a strong figurehead who isn’t afraid of ruffling a few feathers for the betterment of the series (and all the owners have gotten rich because of it)
Common bond of the unsuccessful series: decision by committe (Champ Cars was run this way the first 8 years after the split with the Indy 500) Outright arrogance (Tony George since he holds the crown jewel in Open wheel motorsports) and petty bickering that “my sandbox is better than your sandbox” (all of the above unsuccessful sanctioning bodies)
You want things to improve? Then the obvious answer is a person who has a) direction and vision b) guts to do the right thing in the face of adversity c) an ego that isn’t so big that they can’t move forward when the time is needed to set aside that ego (remove the “E” from ego and guess what, you “GO” forward)
Until this happens things will move forward but slower than most of us want. Track owners will lose money making opportunites, classes will be diluted and I’ll still be racing with a smile on my face because regaurdless, I’m having fun and my class is big because we understand the essence of karting: Have fun, beat each other’s brains out on the track in a sporting and competitive way and if you really do cheat then you’re only cheating yourself.
Just my opinion from a person that is tall, intelligent, charming, sporting, dynamic and most of all… MODEST. 8)
@cgordon wrote:
Besides, this way Mike might actually finish 20 race laps 😀 Another alternative would be to eliminate the practice and just have one heat and the main, but make them longer (say 15 and 25 laps respectively). Of course, under either scenario you would still keep the qualifying session.
Charles
Someone take the bullseye off my back, PLEASE….
I second the elimination of morning practice and replace it with another heat race.
I would say keep the heats to 8-10 laps max and make the main the real show. IMO a heat race should be used to improve your position a place or two if you made a mistake qualifying and NOT used as a place to lose it all either.Bill’s comments are spot on, Bravo! Where we got the dilution of classes I don’t know but, “if you build it they will come” is the correct attitude. Same with the CSC/club tie in.
And I for one see the “build it and they will come” with the kid kart class and the single engine supply. I think parc ferme for those engines to quit the continual accusations of “X is cheating” would shut the traps of those that yap on that direction.I can be a moderator and a bouncer if you’d like. I’m up for the challenge. And Rushy had a good point about tech.
IMO All we need to do is tighten up the CSC not reinvent it…
Dictatorship:
You owners tell us what the classes are and we’ll abide. Just give us time to sell our old stuff and get the new stuff. I know if you do stock 80’s or sealed 80’s they can sell their Comer stuff on EKN or such.
Who CAN say that the stock honda kid cart program wasn’t a success?
TaG Masters and TaG in general continues to be the best fielded class and use it as a template for others.
And get the tracks on board and run em all and (perhaps) one drop max. It (the CSC) is working but can be made better. Limit the amount of races and the club series will flourish.
Owners, set your egos outside the door and go forward. GIT ER DONE, IF you can…
I’ve already told my friends in Vegas about this.
If this can’t bring in spectators then nothing will.
Hopefully, Tom will promote it properly…Speaking of promotions… Wasn’t that Jim Keesling on the news the other morning? I’ll need to get his autograph he’s famous…
8)
