Anyone here race a car or pit for one?

[slimer90210]

I was just wondering if any here raced a car (or truck) or if they pitted for a car (or truck), and if so what League, Class, Sanctioning Body, Etc... does it run in?

Personally I Pit for a local (Knoxville Iowa Area) 360 Full-Winged Sprinter (we run under 3 differnt sanctioning bodies depending on the track), and sometimes I pit for my friend's Stock-4 Car. The Stock-4 class is a class run at 4 or 5 SMALL paved roadcoarses in the area. Basic rules are, Stock Bodies, Stock Four Cylinder Engine, 10-Point Cage, slight suspention mods, DOT Tires.

 

[slimer90210]

so I'll take that as a no......

 

[Party for GT4]

Raced karts in a local Hampshire, UK league last summer.

Came 2nd overall, 1st in class.

Haven't got any pictures.

Was a 125cc with six-speed sequential gearbox.

Max Speed: 90mph.

0-60mph: 7.6secs (recorded by me and datalogger GPS system)

 

[Party for GT4]

Sorry my post should have been in 'Karting Fun' my fault!

 

[slimer90210]

thats not a problem. At least I got a reply...

 

[sn00pie]

Originally posted by Party for GT4


0-60mph: 7.6secs (recorded by me and datalogger GPS system)

What engine did you run that with?

 

[slimer90210]

Originally posted by Party for GT4

Was a 125cc with six-speed sequential gearbox.

Kawaski makes a 125....

 

[Party for GT4]

As snoopie might now understand these are the figures (I messed them up 1st time):

Earlier kart:
125cc Kawasaki (Basically a tweaked KX125 crosser engine... over 44 bhp)
0-60mph: 8.2secs
Top Speed: 90mph.

Newer Kart:
two 160cc Honda 4 strokes (bhp unknown)
0-60mph: 7.6secs and falling...
Top Speed: 108mph (so far)

 

[slimer90210]

Originally posted by Party for GT4
As snoopie might now understand these are the figures (I messed them up 1st time):

Earlier kart:
125cc Kawasaki (Basically a tweaked KX125 crosser engine... over 44 bhp)
0-60mph: 8.2secs
Top Speed: 90mph.

Newer Kart:
two 160cc Honda 4 strokes (bhp unknown)
0-60mph: 7.6secs and falling...
Top Speed: 108mph (so far)

Those little Kawasakis are impressive...... and how you like the new honda?

 

[Party for GT4]

Power is much more controllable an less on/ off than the two-stroke and the torque is way more impressive so pulling out of slowish corners is much better because the engine is more willing to pull in a higher gear, which improves top speed and there is less time wasted changing down and the like.
Handles better too, but that's a different subject.

 

[Party for GT4]

I missed one thing...
When I was eleven, I met someone who helped sponsor a racing team called Brookspeed.
They raced Viper GTSRs in the British GT Championship, and at various endurance events.

I helped them with simple little jobs, a so often travelled around Europe living the high life in Ferraris, Masers etc.

This culminated in Le Mans but I'll have to find exactly where we came at the end of the Race, but they fitted a passenger seat, and I promise hurtling down Mulsanne at 11pm doing over 200mph in the dark, engine blaring, tiny inputs to keep the car straight is the most memorable car moment of my life.

Sadly, the team folded due to money problems.

 

[Party for GT4]

 

[Party for GT4]

Sorry try again...

 

[Party for GT4]

And another

 

[Party for GT4]

But the story has a happy ending!

Brookspeed are back up and running and plan to race in 2004.

WooHoo!

This is some performance information from their new site, http://www.brookspeed.com/
Well, we could take the figures from our race car's data logging but we don't want to give to many things away, our competitors occasionally visit our site!

However the regulations allow a GT car to weigh a minimum of 1100 kgs; the output of a typical Viper GTS-R race car is 650 Bhp (Brookspeed's car may or may not have more! :-J). This equates to a power-to-weight ratio (P2WR) of 601 Bhp per Ton (imperial ton).

Now the McLaren F1 road car produces 627 Bhp and weighs 1137 kgs giving it a P2WR of 560 Bhp per ton. It has been officially recorded (by The Guiness Book of World Records) to do:

0 - 60 Mph in 3.2 seconds
0 - 100 Mph in 6.3 seconds
Top speed 241 Mph

Given that the Viper GTS-R is a race car with race-optimised gearing and engine mapping, sticky slick racing tyres and a P2W ratio 7.3% better than the F1 plus enormous amounts of torque courtesy of the race-tuned 8 litre V10, it should produce better acceleration figures than the big Mac - and it does!

We're talking 0 - 60 Mph in 3 seconds and 0 - 100 Mph in 5.6 seconds! Top speed is lower by virtue of lower gearing and aerodynamic drag produced by the down-force creating wings and bodywork; however in theory the Viper would reach about 225 Mph given the space and they do reach speed's well in excess of 200 Mph at Le Mans.

Whatever, the Viper is a very fast car!

 

[Simon Tibbett]

So at Le Mans you rode in the car during the race???? What did the ACO say? Do you have an FIA liscence?

I race:

SCCA Solo2 EP, HS
SCCA ITC
250cc Enduro Karts
Indoor Karting for fun

I also worked for Panoz at Road Atlanta races, and still work for an SCCA EP team when I am not racing.

 

[Party for GT4]

Not the race, they'd go ****ing ballistic if that happened. It was the week before the race, in the second run it had at the Le Mans track that year, so the driver was getting used to the track.

The seat was hand made and several VIPs who sponsored the team, including my friend, who also paid for them to race at Estoril. So they let me have a ride.

 

[Cap'n Jack]

I race go karts for fun at kart mania. I'm thinking about getting my CAMS lisence so I can race real cars.

 

[millencolin]

i plan on getting a cams licence one day, then maybe race formula vee or fford. what i would (realistically) would like to do is race in australian f3 or the brutes

 

[Blake]

I plan on getting my CAMS sometime in the next 2 months. I would like to race formula ford.