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Re: Pooled engines in the Super One
Posted by 'RoadRat' on 28 Nov 2010 @ 09:59


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See my post in the thread above regarding engines. For seniors the problem is probably much smaller, it's probably mostly just the perception and mostly beyond my experience. But for Cadets and Juniors the problem is much greater. The difference between a good or bad engine in the Cadet type series I'm involved with in France can be as much as 3 seconds and in the Junior classes carbs are available for hire at €700 a weekend with reputedly 7/10ths in them. As mentioned though French karting is much further down the road towards self destruction because of this and similar problems in other classes. UK karting should learn from this.

For my own part, I saw fairly early that I could never afford to compete for long at a high level. So we went all out for the experience of a lifetime, took a year off work and spent the whole time living and breathing karting, learned to do all my own engines and ended up doing them for many of the rest of the field as well(still do) and came within a knats of being overall French champion (we were robbed, literally). Ended up with more trophies than you could shake a stick at and some good memories for me and the kids. However I've also seen the absolute worst, from race fixing to corruption, racism and child abuse. I hasten to add that 90% of this was not in the UK, but in my opinion things are getting worse not better.

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I was unaware that people still used fag packets..  by 'alanrr'   (25 Nov 2010 @ 11:48)
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Re: I was unaware that people still used fag packe  by 'Inter61'   (25 Nov 2010 @ 17:09)
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Green paper - ABkC AGM  by 'Slippery1'   (25 Nov 2010 @ 20:47)
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Re: G Robinsons review...............  by 'John'   (29 Nov 2010 @ 12:00)
Really!  by 'Jasper'   (29 Nov 2010 @ 12:02)
Re: Really!  by 'QuickOldTimer'   (29 Nov 2010 @ 12:57)
Re: Really!  by 'Jasper'   (29 Nov 2010 @ 13:11)
Re: Really!  by 'QuickOldTimer'   (29 Nov 2010 @ 14:38)
Re: Really!  by 'richydehav'   (29 Nov 2010 @ 15:05)
Re: Really!  by 'Jasper'   (02 Dec 2010 @ 10:47)
Re: kart sporting committee green paper  by 'SimonS'   (25 Nov 2010 @ 13:29)
Re: kart sporting committee green paper  by 'RoadRat'   (25 Nov 2010 @ 14:58)
You should have STARTED with the last line.  by 'alanrr'   (25 Nov 2010 @ 15:13)
Re: You should have STARTED with the last line.  by 'KenE'   (25 Nov 2010 @ 15:32)
Green Paper  by 'NickyW'   (25 Nov 2010 @ 16:08)
Re: Green Paper  by 'Bigjim1978'   (25 Nov 2010 @ 16:30)
Re: Green Paper - ABkC AGM  by 'Graham S'   (25 Nov 2010 @ 16:33)
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Re: Green Paper - ABkC AGM  by 'cadetdadnw'   (26 Nov 2010 @ 9:39)
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Re: Green Paper - ABkC AGM  by 'RoadRat'   (26 Nov 2010 @ 15:43)
Re: kart sporting committee green paper  by 'IainB'   (26 Nov 2010 @ 15:21)
Re: kart sporting committee green paper  by 'cadetdadnw'   (26 Nov 2010 @ 16:08)
Re: kart sporting committee green paper  by 'iant'   (26 Nov 2010 @ 16:54)
Re: kart sporting committee green paper  by 'NickyW'   (26 Nov 2010 @ 17:09)
Re: kart sporting committee green paper  by 'Ricardoo'   (26 Nov 2010 @ 20:04)
Re: kart sporting committee green paper  by 'richydehav'   (26 Nov 2010 @ 20:50)
Re: kart sporting committee green paper  by 'RoadRat'   (27 Nov 2010 @ 8:27)
Re: Pooled engines in the Super One  by 'Graham S'   (27 Nov 2010 @ 9:30)
Re: Pooled engines in the Super One  by 'RoadRat'   (27 Nov 2010 @ 11:56)
Re: Pooled engines in the Super One  by 'pdapaul'   (27 Nov 2010 @ 22:03)
Re: Pooled engines in the Super One  by 'SimonS'   (27 Nov 2010 @ 22:55)
Re: Pooled engines in the Super One  by 'pdapaul'   (27 Nov 2010 @ 23:39)
Re: Pooled engines in the Super One  by 'RoadRat'   (28 Nov 2010 @ 8:37)
Re: Pooled engines in the Super One  by 'pdapaul'   (28 Nov 2010 @ 9:29)
Re: Pooled engines in the Super One  by 'RoadRat'  << You are here!
Re: Pooled engines in the Super One  by 'pdapaul'   (28 Nov 2010 @ 10:33)
Re: Pooled engines in the Super One  by 'RoadRat'   (28 Nov 2010 @ 10:54)
Re: Pooled engines in the Super One  by 'pdapaul'   (28 Nov 2010 @ 11:14)
Re: Pooled engines in the Super One  by 'iant'   (28 Nov 2010 @ 13:04)
Re: Pooled engines in the Super One  by 'Hootsman'   (28 Nov 2010 @ 13:07)
Re: Pooled engines in the Super One  by 'pdapaul'   (28 Nov 2010 @ 13:31)
Re: Pooled engines in the Super One  by 'davidmc'   (29 Nov 2010 @ 14:16)
Re: Pooled engines in the Super One  by 'RoadRat'   (29 Nov 2010 @ 16:31)
Re: Pooled engines in the Super One  by 'richydehav'   (29 Nov 2010 @ 16:58)
Re: Pooled engines in the Super One  by 'RoadRat'   (29 Nov 2010 @ 17:21)
Re: Pooled engines in the Super One  by 'davidmc'   (29 Nov 2010 @ 18:58)
Pooled engines in S1 or Stars will not work...  by 'colin'   (28 Nov 2010 @ 12:46)
Quick Question...  by 'michaelg36'   (28 Nov 2010 @ 13:32)
Re: Quick Question...  by 'RoadRat'   (28 Nov 2010 @ 17:28)
Re: Quick Question...  by 'Zico'   (29 Nov 2010 @ 9:59)

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