SuperKarts

[pdun]

u are right i race a single out here in nz,most of the old 256 arent as fast as the jap v motors,there may be th odd one but its stripped just about after every heat,i want to see how these new twin engines go,like the fpe sgm etc.
but hey they are mega bucks

[Warwick]

we tell people over here that Rotax is Austrian for boat anchor,horrible horible things unless you have a very deep wallet.

I believe that Kev used to run a RS before going to the slotax,doesn't Alan Rose do his engines? he fixed one for a mate of mine and certainly made it better than it was before.

[tassuperkart]

Hehehehe
Dunno about Kev running an RS b4 the blowtacks 256 but yeah, Alan rose has been fettling the engine. I know Alan can screwdriver them well but in my view you cant make a silk purse out of a sows ear!!! Bwaaaahahahaha!
Kev has got a trailer load of stuff for that engine, pipes carbies and a legion of other goodies that he totes along. I can only marvel at the determination of him with it.
Whatever gives him a stiffy but my stock standard '92 RS is about as quick as his except for absolute top end and in considerably bigger between corners.
Mine only makes power to 12500 and then simply dies as a result of my setting the headpipe lengths long and top end jetting accordingly for a bulletproof engine. Those guys regularly rev up past 13500 and well beyond to get them to go. Bugger that. I dont even bother lifting the barrels of mine even after 4 big events.
mebbe that why I am half a lap slower than them !!!
Heheheheheheheheh!
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[pdun]

ok then ,which of the jap twins is the best.in nz the tz250 is used ,there a no rs250,s being used.
although i see stocky,s rs blows the tz,s off with ease.
he got the quickest time on the radar at laguna,& considering his karts with hondas were about the next quickest to lawson quite impressive.
i would like to see lawson race else were,like the uk or aussie, have a go in those places.
a one off like laguna is is not really a world challange,spread it over tracks the he doesnt know also.
whos knows stocky my kick his butt in aussie.
but any way is there much between the rs & tz.??

[the man]

Yeah seeing Lawson out here to race will be awsome. Why doesn't the Superkarts get a run at the Aussie Grand Prix like it did in the 90's. Seeing them go round Oran Park would awsome as well

[tassuperkart]

At this stage it is still just a rumour but with those guys you never know.
There are definitely a couple of other fast yanks coming over tho.
The support events at the AGP have to pay a ****load of money to get on that bill. In the past, the superkarts were sponsored to the tune of tens of thousands of dollars to get on to Adelaide GP.
At this stage, we are working on a suitable package to enable the superkarts to get onto Albert park some time in the future. Unfortunately, there are many hurdles to overcome and Cams, the controlling body of Australian motorsport does not make anything easy for us as fas as track safety issues and other concerns that are too lengthy to bother with here.Suffice to say that the wheels are in motion but they keep spinning and not going too far!!!

The NSW club run regularly at Oran Park.
Check out their websit at: www.superkart.org.au
They usually have a calendar there.
8tr
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[the man]

but there is enough run off in most places around the track or are they talking about turn 5 and 6

[tassuperkart]

AFAIK there are no issues with running anything at Oran from the smallets tiddlers right through to GP bikes and the old F 5000's.
As a rule the bike guys place crash pads agains the walls adjacent to the track but I dont beleive that 5 & 6 are any more worry that anywhere else.
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[the man]

sorry I meant at Albert Park, my fault

[tassuperkart]

Oooooohh I see!
Sorry dude!
Umm there are issues as far as the barrier design and the ploughing of the gravel traps and softcock stuff like that.
Evidently, some Einstein came up with the notion that the furrowing of the gravel in the traps is not suitable for superkarts as they reckon that it would enable the karts to simply skate across the gravel or just upend the kart!!!
yeah, sure!
Trouble is that the gravel must be furrowed to a certain spec to suit F1 and nothing else will do.
Apart from all this thewre is still the question of money and that could amount to as much as 50 grand.
Then, some other category will have to go to make way for the karts and i reckon that Cams will not take kindly to any of their precious door slammers being knocked off in favour of a billy cart!
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[the man]

no worries dude,Yeah especially if a v8 race gets knock down from 10 laps to 7 laps ( if they can make to that distance)

[tassuperkart]

That, my friend, is the politics of motorsport yeah!
L8tr dude
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[Warwick]

And especially if the laptimes the karts do show them how slow there poxy cars really are.

[tassuperkart]

Bwaaaahahahahahahahahahaha!

[pdun]

with only 1/4 of a litre,on per head of horsepower,car lap times look pretty sick.if i had 5 litres of v8 id be pretty cheesed off if my lap times werent about 10- 15 sec faster than a 1/4 litre kart