- 5,619
- Hampshire
- Spurgy777
Karting Thread
- Thread starter lbsf1
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- 1,256
- Gippsland, Victoria
- BDR-Binky
- MadRacer38
Well, I am the 2013 Sportsmen Restricted Super Heavy Australasian C & D Title holder!
Heat 1 - Started 4th / Finished - DNF
Got a good start and went straight into third. Made a good move into p-plate and began the hunt. Just caught up to the leader when my chain broke. Annoying.
Heat 2 - Started 7th / Finished 2nd
Once again, good start. Quickly moved into 4th. Criss-crossed my way to 3rd and then tried a move at p-plate again. Finished with a criss-cross upto the chicane but ran out of laps.
Heat 3 - Started 1st / Finished 1st
Dream start. All on my own when I got to turn one. Checked out and never looked like losing it.
Final - Started 3rd / Finished 1st
Got the start I needed and slotted into thrd. 5 laps in and #93 made a move at cool-aqua, I followed and got the spot on the way into the chicane. Got into a rythm and began to plan the move. Nose to tail until lap 12. A back-marker had dragged mud and water onto the track and me and the #93 had come up to it un-sited. He hit it and went wide. We went side-by-side through siberia until he went out over the grass. I put a margin between us and went back into the rythm. 5 laps to go and tried once more to get me bringing the margin back under a second but it was no use. I went again with a 2.4 second win and my first big win!
Have to say this makes up for the day that could have been yesterday.
Post some pics later this week.
Heat 1 - Started 4th / Finished - DNF
Got a good start and went straight into third. Made a good move into p-plate and began the hunt. Just caught up to the leader when my chain broke. Annoying.
Heat 2 - Started 7th / Finished 2nd
Once again, good start. Quickly moved into 4th. Criss-crossed my way to 3rd and then tried a move at p-plate again. Finished with a criss-cross upto the chicane but ran out of laps.
Heat 3 - Started 1st / Finished 1st
Dream start. All on my own when I got to turn one. Checked out and never looked like losing it.
Final - Started 3rd / Finished 1st
Got the start I needed and slotted into thrd. 5 laps in and #93 made a move at cool-aqua, I followed and got the spot on the way into the chicane. Got into a rythm and began to plan the move. Nose to tail until lap 12. A back-marker had dragged mud and water onto the track and me and the #93 had come up to it un-sited. He hit it and went wide. We went side-by-side through siberia until he went out over the grass. I put a margin between us and went back into the rythm. 5 laps to go and tried once more to get me bringing the margin back under a second but it was no use. I went again with a 2.4 second win and my first big win!
Have to say this makes up for the day that could have been yesterday.
Post some pics later this week.
- 4,186
- Donington Park
- ROB__MK2
Haven't posted in a while. Mainly because I have been too busy with studies and holidays to have much to do with karting. I went for a test a couple weeks back (my first on this layout of track). I must have clocked a good 100 or so laps. I managed to get down to 1.2s of the fastest guys lap time. Not bad for a newb 
However my day was cut slightly short after the hub slid across my axle and a bolt sticking out of my engine burst the tyre and I went spinning across the grass. Stuck the kart back on the trailer and its been sat in my garage until today. I took the wheel off and removed bits of plastic from the engine cover that had been worn from the tyre rub.No damage done luckily and both engines start and run ok (1 occasionally miss fires under full revs). Did a couple jobs around the kart and neatend it up a bit. Going to get more testing in now it's the holidays 
However my day was cut slightly short after the hub slid across my axle and a bolt sticking out of my engine burst the tyre and I went spinning across the grass. Stuck the kart back on the trailer and its been sat in my garage until today. I took the wheel off and removed bits of plastic from the engine cover that had been worn from the tyre rub.No damage done luckily and both engines start and run ok (1 occasionally miss fires under full revs). Did a couple jobs around the kart and neatend it up a bit. Going to get more testing in now it's the holidays 
- 1,256
- Gippsland, Victoria
- BDR-Binky
- MadRacer38
Good work!
I leave for the 4th round of the GPS on Friday. Bit nervous, my series hangs very much in the balance...
EDIT:
Well, there will be no more celebrations for the Golden Power Series. With 1 round to go I am all but out of the running, sitting 900 points off the lead with 1600 on offer.
Hard weekend for me. 4-stroking on the Saturday and a wierd Sunday let down our race-winning pace.
Heat 1 - Started 4th/ Finished 5th
I had a bad start, a really bad start. Dropped to last (7th). Managed to get back up to 6th quickly and eventually made up the gap to the pack but could only get to 5th by the end of the race.
Heat 2 - Started 4th/ Finished 5th
Good start got me into 3rd only to be shoved off and sent to the back. Got to 4th before getting shoved off again only managing to get 5th back late in the race.
Pre-Final - Started 5th/ Finished 3rd
Took a gamble and went out on wets. Slippery conditions meant that 3 of the 5 guys on slicks spun off but 5 laps in and the wets were going off. Hung on for 3rd.
Final - Started 4th/ Finished 5th*
Go on to the out lap, all good, had to do a 2nd roll around when my brakes decided they were done. Rolled around for the race to collect points and hope people spun off. No brakes means I got bored, so I started wavving at people and whatever else I could think of doing. Funny part, came around to the pit lane entry after the race, massive mind fade, had to do a 'victory lap' because I couldn't pull up in time LOL. Still didn't get lapped
*I finished 6th but was classified as 5th due to the winner being DSQ'ed. I have no idea why that happend.
I am still 6th in the points for the GPS but really just putting down as experience. See what happens next year.
Clubday this weekend, clinging on to a slender lead in the Club Championship. Hopefully get up for an upset win!
I leave for the 4th round of the GPS on Friday. Bit nervous, my series hangs very much in the balance...
EDIT:
Well, there will be no more celebrations for the Golden Power Series. With 1 round to go I am all but out of the running, sitting 900 points off the lead with 1600 on offer.
Hard weekend for me. 4-stroking on the Saturday and a wierd Sunday let down our race-winning pace.
Heat 1 - Started 4th/ Finished 5th
I had a bad start, a really bad start. Dropped to last (7th). Managed to get back up to 6th quickly and eventually made up the gap to the pack but could only get to 5th by the end of the race.
Heat 2 - Started 4th/ Finished 5th
Good start got me into 3rd only to be shoved off and sent to the back. Got to 4th before getting shoved off again only managing to get 5th back late in the race.
Pre-Final - Started 5th/ Finished 3rd
Took a gamble and went out on wets. Slippery conditions meant that 3 of the 5 guys on slicks spun off but 5 laps in and the wets were going off. Hung on for 3rd.
Final - Started 4th/ Finished 5th*
Go on to the out lap, all good, had to do a 2nd roll around when my brakes decided they were done. Rolled around for the race to collect points and hope people spun off. No brakes means I got bored, so I started wavving at people and whatever else I could think of doing. Funny part, came around to the pit lane entry after the race, massive mind fade, had to do a 'victory lap' because I couldn't pull up in time LOL. Still didn't get lapped
*I finished 6th but was classified as 5th due to the winner being DSQ'ed. I have no idea why that happend.
I am still 6th in the points for the GPS but really just putting down as experience. See what happens next year.
Clubday this weekend, clinging on to a slender lead in the Club Championship. Hopefully get up for an upset win!
Carlos
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- 6,453
- Netherlands
I sooo wish I could do this as a sport. My iRacing club hold a meeting at a Dutch track, Eefde. First time since I was twelve to race in the open. I only have closed kart circuits near me. What a pleasure!! Never want to kart inside ever again!! 
We did a small championship, with practice, qualifying and two races. Second race was reversed grid and reversed karts.
Practice was okay, I think, don't have timings on that, but I knew I was 2 seconds slower in qualifying, or more.. After complaining to some locals how it was possible this kart was suddenly so much slower, he said: that is not possible, there must be something wrong. As he walks up, turns to me and said: ah! It's still in child mode. CHILD MODE?! Are you kidding me? Oh well...
So, starting in the last spot in race 1, this is how it went:
As you see, not so good
I wanted to give the guy next to me some space, but as I did I guess I overdid it... Got back into a pretty good pace and passed 3 guys.
Race 2 I did pretty well, starting in third position, moved up to first pretty quick but had to battle for the first pos the whole race, and lost it. Finished in second place and if I remember correctly even had the fastest lap time that race Was only 0.24 seconds behind the number 1 
Want to go back quickly!!!
Though I doubt races will be this fun again, because we were 1 group and we all kinda knew how to drive karts.
We did a small championship, with practice, qualifying and two races. Second race was reversed grid and reversed karts.
Practice was okay, I think, don't have timings on that, but I knew I was 2 seconds slower in qualifying, or more.. After complaining to some locals how it was possible this kart was suddenly so much slower, he said: that is not possible, there must be something wrong. As he walks up, turns to me and said: ah! It's still in child mode. CHILD MODE?! Are you kidding me? Oh well...
So, starting in the last spot in race 1, this is how it went:
As you see, not so good
I wanted to give the guy next to me some space, but as I did I guess I overdid it... Got back into a pretty good pace and passed 3 guys.Race 2 I did pretty well, starting in third position, moved up to first pretty quick but had to battle for the first pos the whole race, and lost it. Finished in second place and if I remember correctly even had the fastest lap time that race
Was only 0.24 seconds behind the number 1 Want to go back quickly!!!Though I doubt races will be this fun again, because we were 1 group and we all kinda knew how to drive karts.
- 2,980
- Brankston
- gokartman
Did my first por-kart endurance race yesterday. Was incredible. I was running with a really old friend, and we had borrowed some of his teams cadet engines. (The prokarts use 2 60cc Honda engines - which are the same as the cadets. The only difference between the engines is that the cadets have a restrictor in).
Anyway we borrowed their really quick engines and managed to put them on just before quali. 5 minutes into the 10 minute timed session we realised that we had left the restricters in both engines. We came in, changed them and tanked the kart up with fuel for our first stint. Even with restrictors in we managed to qualify 4th out of 36
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The race was a 2 hour enduro with 3 mandatory stops. We decided to stop every 30 minutes and do a driver change at every stop. My freind started the first stint and we climbed up to 2nd. We were 29 seconds behind the leader and losing about half a second a lap, and we had a 25 second gap over 3rd place at the half our mark. I jumped in to do our second stint and put the hammer down. The laps just kept going, and you had no idea where you were relative to anyone else on track. All we knew was their was karts that we were lapping coming up, get past as fast as possible. I set a new fastest lap for our kart in the middle of our second stint, but a few laps before the end the 3rd place guy managed to get past. (the way the stops had worked out he had closed down a gap and capitalised on mistakes by other (myself mainly).
The Third stint went incredibly well. After my friend got back in, we were 28 seconds behind the new leaders. 12 minutes later, he had caught up and passed the leader and started pulling away. Unfortunately for us, this wasn't the 'quick' leader from the 1st stint. That kart had already done all 3 stops by 1Hr and 10 minutes and was fueled till the end. We had a 25 seconds gap over that kart at the end of our third stint, but that was no-where near enough time to get out infront after a pit-stop.
As my friend came in, he said just put your foot down, dont slow down, and be decisive. I was. When I came out of the pits we were down in 4th place. The leader was 38 seconds ahead of me (when the lap was only 39 seconds long, it would be better to say he was a second away from lapping me). 2nd place was 15 seconds ahead and 3rd place was 10 seconds ahead. Due to the timings of pitstops and calling drivers in I only had 25 minutes for the last stint. I went into sprint kart mode, and was lunging past backmarkers at every corner, and trying to make every clean lap a quali lap. It worked . At the flag I was 19 seconds behind the leader and 10 seconds ahead of 3rd. Me and the leader also managed to put a lap on 4th place.
We were expecting to get a trophy, but when we went up for the presentation we head the worst words you can hear in motorsport after getting a good result. "The results are under investigation for karts in positions 1 , 2 and 3".
So for all we know we could have been DQ'ed, but we also could have won. I'll try and let you know in the next few days the outcome of this 'investigation'.
Anyway we borrowed their really quick engines and managed to put them on just before quali. 5 minutes into the 10 minute timed session we realised that we had left the restricters in both engines. We came in, changed them and tanked the kart up with fuel for our first stint. Even with restrictors in we managed to qualify 4th out of 36
.The race was a 2 hour enduro with 3 mandatory stops. We decided to stop every 30 minutes and do a driver change at every stop. My freind started the first stint and we climbed up to 2nd. We were 29 seconds behind the leader and losing about half a second a lap, and we had a 25 second gap over 3rd place at the half our mark. I jumped in to do our second stint and put the hammer down. The laps just kept going, and you had no idea where you were relative to anyone else on track. All we knew was their was karts that we were lapping coming up, get past as fast as possible. I set a new fastest lap for our kart in the middle of our second stint, but a few laps before the end the 3rd place guy managed to get past. (the way the stops had worked out he had closed down a gap and capitalised on mistakes by other (myself mainly).
The Third stint went incredibly well. After my friend got back in, we were 28 seconds behind the new leaders. 12 minutes later, he had caught up and passed the leader and started pulling away. Unfortunately for us, this wasn't the 'quick' leader from the 1st stint. That kart had already done all 3 stops by 1Hr and 10 minutes and was fueled till the end. We had a 25 seconds gap over that kart at the end of our third stint, but that was no-where near enough time to get out infront after a pit-stop.
As my friend came in, he said just put your foot down, dont slow down, and be decisive. I was
. When I came out of the pits we were down in 4th place. The leader was 38 seconds ahead of me (when the lap was only 39 seconds long, it would be better to say he was a second away from lapping me). 2nd place was 15 seconds ahead and 3rd place was 10 seconds ahead. Due to the timings of pitstops and calling drivers in I only had 25 minutes for the last stint. I went into sprint kart mode, and was lunging past backmarkers at every corner, and trying to make every clean lap a quali lap. It worked . At the flag I was 19 seconds behind the leader and 10 seconds ahead of 3rd. Me and the leader also managed to put a lap on 4th place.We were expecting to get a trophy, but when we went up for the presentation we head the worst words you can hear in motorsport after getting a good result. "The results are under investigation for karts in positions 1 , 2 and 3".
So for all we know we could have been DQ'ed, but we also could have won. I'll try and let you know in the next few days the outcome of this 'investigation'.
- 5,619
- Hampshire
- Spurgy777
Did my first por-kart endurance race yesterday. Was incredible. I was running with a really old friend, and we had borrowed some of his teams cadet engines. (The prokarts use 2 60cc Honda engines - which are the same as the cadets. The only difference between the engines is that the cadets have a restrictor in).
Anyway we borrowed their really quick engines and managed to put them on just before quali. 5 minutes into the 10 minute timed session we realised that we had left the restricters in both engines. We came in, changed them and tanked the kart up with fuel for our first stint. Even with restrictors in we managed to qualify 4th out of 36
The race was a 2 hour enduro with 3 mandatory stops. We decided to stop every 30 minutes and do a driver change at every stop. My freind started the first stint and we climbed up to 2nd. We were 29 seconds behind the leader and losing about half a second a lap, and we had a 25 second gap over 3rd place at the half our mark. I jumped in to do our second stint and put the hammer down. The laps just kept going, and you had no idea where you were relative to anyone else on track. All we knew was their was karts that we were lapping coming up, get past as fast as possible. I set a new fastest lap for our kart in the middle of our second stint, but a few laps before the end the 3rd place guy managed to get past. (the way the stops had worked out he had closed down a gap and capitalised on mistakes by other (myself mainly).
The Third stint went incredibly well. After my friend got back in, we were 28 seconds behind the new leaders. 12 minutes later, he had caught up and passed the leader and started pulling away. Unfortunately for us, this wasn't the 'quick' leader from the 1st stint. That kart had already done all 3 stops by 1Hr and 10 minutes and was fueled till the end. We had a 25 seconds gap over that kart at the end of our third stint, but that was no-where near enough time to get out infront after a pit-stop.
As my friend came in, he said just put your foot down, dont slow down, and be decisive. I was
We were expecting to get a trophy, but when we went up for the presentation we head the worst words you can hear in motorsport after getting a good result. "The results are under investigation for karts in positions 1 , 2 and 3".
So for all we know we could have been DQ'ed, but we also could have won. I'll try and let you know in the next few days the outcome of this 'investigation'.
I have bad news, you're getting DQ'ed for being retarded
- 268
- Melbourne, Australia
- evilserpentman
Spurgy 777I have bad news, you're getting DQ'ed for being retarded
Apart from some terminology, this is true.
I don't think too many racing series would approve of modifying engines during a session...especially if they break class rules.
- 2,980
- Brankston
- gokartman
We didn't break the rules, that's the reason we were allowed to come in and change it. We were still 4th quickest with restrictors in, which surprised a few people, and allowed us to redo pressures and tank up fully. It was almost a good thing, it didn't cost us any time on track once the race had started.
Yes, we got 3rd in the end which was a bit annoying. The team that finished 2nd claimed that they had gone over the start line on the grass on one of the laps, which was why they finished between us and the leaders. Even though we finished ahead of them on track..Oh well, 3rd isn't to bad for my first race in that class
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- 1,256
- Gippsland, Victoria
- BDR-Binky
- MadRacer38
September Clubday
The first warm/hot day of the year and I had a characteristically poor run. Never managed to get a good run in the hot days in Juniors and it carried through to TAG R.
Struggled with kart setup all day and ran 8 tenths off pace. Came away from the weekend with 4th in SRH which was a good outcome considering my pace.
Still holding a healthy lead in the club championship (SRH). Post-Bathurst, I am hoping to get the kart to the track a couple of times to get the missing speed back.
Still a chance that I can wrap u[p the championship in October which would mean I could go for broke in November.
2 club days and a borderlining on pointless (For me) final round of the GPS and then my 4th year in karts will be completed.
EDIT:
Had a good day at the track in hot weather. Fixed the setup stuggles I have been having.
The first warm/hot day of the year and I had a characteristically poor run. Never managed to get a good run in the hot days in Juniors and it carried through to TAG R.
Struggled with kart setup all day and ran 8 tenths off pace. Came away from the weekend with 4th in SRH which was a good outcome considering my pace.
Still holding a healthy lead in the club championship (SRH). Post-Bathurst, I am hoping to get the kart to the track a couple of times to get the missing speed back.
Still a chance that I can wrap u[p the championship in October which would mean I could go for broke in November.
2 club days and a borderlining on pointless (For me) final round of the GPS and then my 4th year in karts will be completed.
EDIT:
Had a good day at the track in hot weather. Fixed the setup stuggles I have been having.
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- 1,256
- Gippsland, Victoria
- BDR-Binky
- MadRacer38
Nice little car park track. Nice result too!
October clubday for me was just so, so. Fixing the kart all day.
Last round of the GPS was a bit difficult. The wngine just could not handle the high speed track. But it was fun. I'll be doing it again next year and go for the series win because I know the tracks now. Can't wait for that
But for now, I have one more clubday and my season is done. I will have to find something to do in December, January and February. That sucks!
- 3,082
- Allen, Texas
- crispychicken49
- crispychicken49
Well this thread has disappeared...
I went to Dallas Karting Complex this past Sunday for an early birthday present. New Karts, new track surface. Managed a 1:14.026, fastest lap for me ever! Though some pros were doing 1:12's...
Qualified for the Rotax DD2 Sifter Kart but they had none in stock. Oh well, next time! đź‘Ť
However I did take the Sodi GT MAX out for a spin. Man is that thing powerful! The experience felt like a turbo spooling up, one second you were kinda accelerating, then the next you were rocketing towards the next turn. Only one brake, towards the rear... The pressure was also dialed up pretty high in order to slow the beast down so I locked up once or twice. Overall though it was a great experience, and definitely let me hone my skills in power oversteer and lift off oversteer.
I went to Dallas Karting Complex this past Sunday for an early birthday present. New Karts, new track surface. Managed a 1:14.026, fastest lap for me ever! Though some pros were doing 1:12's...
Qualified for the Rotax DD2 Sifter Kart but they had none in stock. Oh well, next time! đź‘Ť
However I did take the Sodi GT MAX out for a spin. Man is that thing powerful! The experience felt like a turbo spooling up, one second you were kinda accelerating, then the next you were rocketing towards the next turn. Only one brake, towards the rear... The pressure was also dialed up pretty high in order to slow the beast down so I locked up once or twice. Overall though it was a great experience, and definitely let me hone my skills in power oversteer and lift off oversteer.
- 1,256
- Gippsland, Victoria
- BDR-Binky
- MadRacer38
Sounds like it was a good day!
I ended up Aggregate 2nd for the club championship. Means there is some room to improve for next year. This year has been good for me though. First year out of juniors ( which I was in for 3 year) and I had gone from running around at the back to being a regular front runner which is nice.
Bring on next year.
I ended up Aggregate 2nd for the club championship. Means there is some room to improve for next year. This year has been good for me though. First year out of juniors ( which I was in for 3 year) and I had gone from running around at the back to being a regular front runner which is nice.
Bring on next year.
- 396
- Hungary
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