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Aside from the technical limitations which are undeniable, most everything else you've said, with the respect, is selective nonsense.
Easykart isn't Club100 or corporate, it does not operate the c100 business model, which is arrive & drive, although the competiveness and the amount racing a typical c100 driver is getting in a season is a great grounding in learning "how to race", for ek, it is for only a handful of c100 drivers, although it is proving to be a next step into owner driver karting for some of them, why? Cos they want to go faster. And ek is in terms of speed and committment, including financial, is a sizeable step but not too bigger step to put everyone off.
While ACR and C100 are running awnings and support for a number of drivers, the vast majority are owner drivers, from the back of vans, trailers and roof racks, land no one is getting "special favours" by being run by acr or c100 and so far as I could tell everyone is happy. No, really as far as I can tell, when I've been to a few rounds. It's also manages a friendly atmosphere...
EK is a MSA sanctioned owner driver championship, and even if it weren't I think it's valid enough to be allowed in here. Btw EK was not brought up in this thread about the future of uk karting by an EK interested party, but someone else chucked it up as "irrelevant." I'm afraid you better get used to it.
It's also catching a lot more kids and owner drivers from coming from another direction (than corporate or c100) who either don't have the time or the money to burn, and just want to be racing on equal terms when they get to the dummy grid.
Visiting drivers well okay to a degree, but it's both a club and and national championship so sits across the two areas to which you allude, there are the world finals every year in Italy, I suppose for bit more colour.
As to C100 being involved in running EK championship, it's expertise of 20 years of running in customer focussed karting orientated business at multiple circuits, feb-nov 2 or 3 weekends a month with a 200-300 paying customer/drivers, each weekend, bringing it's own timing & scoring, it's web friendliness, makes it ideally for adaptable and knowing how to treat customers, many championship organisers could learn a thing or two from it. You can't treat customers shabbily when their discretionary purchasing can walk away so easily as arrive & drive can. so a bit of no brainer I'm sounding dangerously like a fanboy so I apologise. I understood George Robinson was impressed with EK when he had a look at it as part of his work into the future of karting.
As to pushing off to your own chatrooms, tut tut, is this the uk karting site? that's a broad church, you're in danger of being accused of either trolling or snobby elitism (rotax?), and EKs accessibility is really lost on you. still there's plenty pews for all to sit in here I hope no one suggests a rotax forum (?) to you.
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