Unless they're in a libre grid.... then what difference.
Looking at Essex Elite's figures as to what he'd lost on power a couple of years ago people would have and did sell their grannies for that amount of power.
Yes some places / kids are going faster, but the engine isn't the only factor. Yes there are some very fruity T2s out there, but everyone's getting a bit more "professional" (whether that be Lad and Dad's working their butts off or it be nutters ploughing £XX,000s in to it - Novices in the full on RS Merc Altegos - seriously WTF), the BRKs are today what Project One were in years gone by.Yes people are getting faster and that filters down as they whole field improves.
Here's a hypothesis:
The lowering of lap times are not to do with the engines, but is rather due to the accelerated rate of drivers coming on.
In testing of the restrictors the plan was to shave something like 0.4 - 0.5 of the lap times, initially this was the case so this confirms the proof point that restriction worked.
To restrict the engines further would be penalising drivers for coming on.
Case in point Buckmore this weekend a field littered with the names of those who grace the pages of Karting each month who are at the sharp end of S1, won by someone for whom BP is not his home track, who does not have an RS Motorhome or even a van, who is in his second year of MSA racing, who is not a S1 driver, but who is as talented a driver as you will find.
Now this is not to say that the drivers in Iame are not talented or face the same challenges as the Honda's, but so equal are the Honda fields that quite often a gnat's chuff is what will split the first five or even ten places, TQs where the front two rows are split by the 0.000th.
Honda is arguably the closest and most competitive racing in the country, and here's the great thing it's happening every weekend.
So if the tests of the restrictor plate slowed the Honda by 0.5 against the Iame then any more restriction would be a penalty and a slap in the face for every Honda kid, father, team, engine builder, chassis designer..
Yes, the MSA said they would review again in March , but that should not mean that a review should be default result in further restriction.
Having read this month's karting, if it helps at all to any Iames out there I do still have a fair amount of what I thought was worthless Cool Power in my garage, :)...... I am of course joking, though I do also have two stroke in there too, which pretty much has the same effect as adding Cool Power. The bonkers thing is that it's actually on the approved list of oils, buy it over the counter and not have to mix it with your fuel behind closed doors...... so also proving that people are strange...
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honda restrictor by 'henry12345' (18 Jul 2013 @ 19:14)
