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Karting News Briefs

7 April 2014

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• Entry for the next Rotax Pro Tour round (Lithgow, this weekend) has been extended right up to this Friday, April 11. IKD has confirmed there will be no additional late entry fee.
  
  
• Apparently, 32% of the drivers in this year's Indycar series have never won a championship. Ever. Drivers don't need title winning success in the junior formulae to get a full-time Indycar ride (I think we all know what gets you a full-time ride - and it's a phenomena not restricted to Indycar... ). Conversely, nothing is guaranteed for those multiple junior championship winning hot shot drivers. What does this mean for karters? Just enjoy your karting, the purest form of motorsport! The fact is, racing has to be paid for, invariably by the driver. If you've got access to cash, and you're not a total numpty behind the wheel, you can go pro-level car racing whenever you want. You might not win, but you'll be part of the show. If you're highly talented and super determined, you might be one of the very few who get there by having others pay for it. But for the majority rest of you - enjoy your karting while you can :) - to read Keith Ori's article about the Indycar drivers, click HERE.
  
  
• This is not the way to end your Rotax Euro Challenge debut! NSW's Jack Black gets tangled up in Junior MAX at Genk on the weekend. Jack is in the #91 VPDR kart. #92 is the American Birel driver Aiden Keel. Thomas Preining (Team TKP/FA Kart) won the round.
  
  pics - Black Jack Racing/facebook
  
  
  
• Canberra Kart Club has cancelled the scheduled April 27 race meeting. The club's committee decided that, due to a clash with the annual ‘Yellow Tail Cup’ at Griffith, their April meeting would likely be undersubscribed. "The CKRC committee did look to move the race meeting to the previous weekend but besides this being the Easter long weekend, it also has the National titles being held at Newcastle." A May date was considered not workable due to the ACT Titles on the 17th and 18th. The club is encouraging its members to support the Yellow Tail Cup at Griffith.
  
  
• Project X Racing's Will Yarwood (far right) with participants at the Warwick Kart Club's junior camp that concluded on Sunday:
  
  pic - ProjectX
  
  
• SKUSA has announced the addition of the IAME X30 engine to the TaG Senior and TaG Master categories for competition, beginning June 1, 2014. The X30 will run 20lbs (9kg) heavier than the Leopard engine in both classes. SKUSA will keep TaG Junior class as Leopard-only through 2015. "This helps provide a market to sell existing Leopard engines for Senior or Master drivers who want to switch to the X30" SKUSA said in a statement.
  
  
• Parolin will supply chassis for an Ayrton Senna Memorial kart race. It will be conducted at the Imola circuit as part of the 20 year anniversary of his death. Several memorial activities will take place from April 30 through to May 4, with the kart racing taking place on Friday the 2nd. There will be two karting events - one exclusively for former Formula 1 drivers, and the other for a selected number of teams. Unfortunately, it will be rental karts that are being used - Parolin's XT40 fitted with Honda GX270 engines "accurately tuned for the special occasion" according to Parolin.
  
  pic - Parolin
  
  
• A development application has been submitted with Shoalhaven City Council for a 70-hectare motorsport facility based near Nowra, NSW. Lodged by Motorcycling NSW last month, the facility is planned to comprise a 3km road racing circuit and several off-road tracks. Karting is mentioned in the plans, but it's primarily for state and club level bike racing, plus rider and driver training. More on drive.com.au HERE.
  
  
• A dead set serious kart...
  
  pic - facebook
  
  
• Karting on rFactor 2. There are currently two classes - Junior and Kart F1. According to rfactor.net, The 20hp Junior engine provides peak power just below 9000rpm but keeps pulling to 12,000rpm before it drops off sharply. Don't let the engine go under 6000rpm. In Kart F1 form, the 40hp engine produces peak torque and power at much higher RPM (12,000 to 13,500rpm) and doesn’t fall off too much until about 15,500. It also has front brakes. As in real life, gearing is very important to extract the maximum performance out of the kart.
  

 

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