I understand the sentiments of TCL but to say it's sour grapes seems a bit disingenous. We were competing at Rissy last weekend too and can endorse all of what's been said. I watched Sunday's Cadet A final from Top Bend and saw the incident referred to by robinrose32 close up. No-one wants to see karts launched into the air and barrel rolling, let alone when being driven by cadets. Hats off to the marshals and medics for dealing with it well and it was good to see the driver scooting around the paddock safe and well at the end of the day :-).
Last month's Shenington meeting hosted a round of the LGM and it was a privelege to see the driving standards on display. Look at the lap times on the results section of this website and you'll see the top guys were setting identical lap times, drove centimetres apart for lap after lap without any loading or bumping so not all teams are guilty of dubious standards. But teams are businesses and for their business model to work they're dependent on success on the track. It's easy to imagine that some teams promise drivers (parents) immediate results and become forced to rely on more dangerous tactics to compensate for the lack of experience or talent. This is endorsed because it's easy to get away with so drivers make up places by metaphorically sticking their elbows out and if a driver or team gets a reputation for such behaviour, so much the better as it intimidates other drivers and offers further advantage. A reliance on such tactics will only get a driver/team so far up the grid, the rest needs to come from application. I've not been in karting for long but one thing I've learnt is that there are no short cuts and nothing that's going to move you magically to the front. Contact driving isn't the answer but, sadly, it'll take a headline to stop it.
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