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Re: DYKC cancel 2010 season
Posted by 'SimonS' on 09 Dec 2009 @ 09:53

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"I would just like to add that I am not 'anti' MSA racing, having been involved with a national championship this year, but the RAC are ultimately responsible for the mess that karting is in at the present time.... too many classes, dwindling entries, inconsistent 'policing' at events, cost of licences etc etc etc.

Something is very obviously wrong and people are voting with their feet. "

I regularly race at another circuit that does 'corporate' karting, and the owners suggest they make more profit from a corporate event on the Saturday morning than they do from the entire weekend of MSA racing.

The additional costs of 'MSA' karting are largely due it seems to meeting the needs of safety, and most of those have been found to be necessary by precedent. The condition of the track, the number of officials, the medical care.

I find the Arks test a burden on karting. Too often I have seen keen newcomers to the sport put off by the perceived excess of theory and practice and the additional cost. The Blue Book still contains the mechanism to abolish it but it comes at a price. CoC's must allow sufficient observed practice time before the event for unknown, novice drivers to be assessed for competence. Can we really squeeze an extra half-hour into the racing day? The alternative is that CoC's accept the assurance of reliable witnesses that a novice driver is competent to race, which is all that Arks represents.

Traders vouching for clearly unready drivers risk their reputations when it becomes known that they are regarded as unreliable!

As for the MSA Licensing costs, when firms report that it costs up to Ł50 just to prepare an invoice, they are not unreasonable.

The issue of the number of kart classes has been discussed. It isn't a matter for the MSA to decide what the market 'wants', otherwise more people will walk.

What attracts people to non-MSA karting? In many cases it appears to be the absence of rules or equality. People often advocate the 'run what you brung' nature of some of these tracks, often with karts that would be challenged by MSA scrutineering.

We are aware that there are some elements in MSA karting that are prepared to spend very large sums of money to explore the boundaries of the 'class' system but want the status of 'national best driver'.

These are the people who make the difference between abiding by the idea of a class race and expensively ensuring that rules are obeyed.

Message Thread:

DYKC cancel 2010 season by 'rodgers' (08 Dec 2009 @ 13:55)

Re: DYKC cancel 2010 season by 'Avago' (08 Dec 2009 @ 14:26)

Re: DYKC cancel 2010 season by 'racertom' (08 Dec 2009 @ 14:28)

Re: DYKC cancel 2010 season by 'Avago' (08 Dec 2009 @ 14:53)

Re: DYKC cancel 2010 season by 'racertom' (08 Dec 2009 @ 14:55)

Re: DYKC cancel 2010 season by 'Dutchberry' (08 Dec 2009 @ 17:07)

Re: DYKC cancel 2010 season by 'tracypope' (08 Dec 2009 @ 19:38)

O plate? by 'DBaldwin' (08 Dec 2009 @ 20:17)

Re: O plate? by 'malfell' (08 Dec 2009 @ 20:51)

crazy desision........they must be barking mad. by 'cosgrove78' (08 Dec 2009 @ 20:43)

Re: DYKC cancel 2010 season by 'tweaker' (09 Dec 2009 @ 0:22)

Re: DYKC cancel 2010 season by 'SimonS' << You are here!

what a load of rubbish......... by 'cosgrove78' (09 Dec 2009 @ 10:01)

Re: what a load of rubbish......... by 'ianslawson' (09 Dec 2009 @ 13:46)

actually your wrong by 'cosgrove78' (09 Dec 2009 @ 14:35)

2 sides to every story by 'positivekarter' (09 Dec 2009 @ 19:16)

Re: what a load of rubbish......... by 'propakartin' (09 Dec 2009 @ 19:13)

Re: what a load of rubbish......... by 'tweaker' (09 Dec 2009 @ 20:51)

tweaker.... by 'cosgrove78' (09 Dec 2009 @ 23:07)

Re: tweaker.... by 'ianslawson' (10 Dec 2009 @ 11:30)

ian... by 'cosgrove78' (10 Dec 2009 @ 14:47)

Re: tweaker.... by 'donkeydad' (10 Dec 2009 @ 15:23)

Re: tweaker.... by 'stevenw' (10 Dec 2009 @ 19:34)

Re: tweaker.... by 'kartingmum' (10 Dec 2009 @ 20:07)

jump on the band wagon.. by 'cosgrove78' (10 Dec 2009 @ 21:28)

Re: jump on the band wagon.. by 'tweaker' (10 Dec 2009 @ 21:58)

Re: jump on the band wagon.. by 'cosgrove78' (10 Dec 2009 @ 23:23)

Re: jump on the band wagon.. by 'tweaker' (11 Dec 2009 @ 0:34)

and all the best to you too. by 'cosgrove78' (11 Dec 2009 @ 0:51)

Re: tweaker.... by 'donkeydad' (10 Dec 2009 @ 21:36)

Generators AND Chain Saws by 'RoadRat' (10 Dec 2009 @ 22:09)

Re: Generators AND Chain Saws by 'rjbcar27' (10 Dec 2009 @ 22:12)

Re: Generators AND Chain Saws by 'tweaker' (10 Dec 2009 @ 22:30)

Re: Generators AND Chain Saws by 'lard ass bob' (11 Dec 2009 @ 0:05)

Re: Generators AND Chain Saws by 'ianslawson' (11 Dec 2009 @ 14:31)

Re: lard ass bob by 'donkeydad' (11 Dec 2009 @ 15:05)

Re: DYKC and Teesside Autodrome by 'propakartin' (11 Dec 2009 @ 15:08)

Donkeydad.... by 'Chads' (12 Dec 2009 @ 9:58)

Re: Donkeydad.... by 'donkeydad' (12 Dec 2009 @ 13:08)

not a lot of 4/ in OZ either, however.... by 'Chads' (13 Dec 2009 @ 2:53)

re: DYKC final word by 'tracypope' (11 Dec 2009 @ 14:55)

Still sprint racing at Teeside ! by 'propakartin' (11 Dec 2009 @ 15:50)

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