You list some interesting points which I largley agree with, honestly I'm not trying to have the 2 versus 4 stroke debate, my main like about hondas is you fill it with petrol and pull the handle, its just so simple.
Yes the liquid cooled rotax's have done nothing but drastically increase the cost, weight and complexity of what shoud be a cost effective and simple sport, like it was before.
lack of progression after honda cadets, I couldnt agree more as do many other dads, so they have simply left the sport and gone oval or circuit racing, I will probably do the same when my lad turns 13, as I have no interest in running a liquid cooled 2-stroke against other lads who's dad have done £15,000 on a top mini or junior 2-stroke motor, no way.
I talk to Denis Davidson regularly on e-mail and he said when Anthony made the jump from Karts to FormulaFord, it was a massive culture shock, whereby the power to weight ratio of a 150hp zetec formula ford was well below that of a 30hp kart, hence karting had gotten him into bad driving habits that were of no use in circuit racing, my point being, most modern kart engines are just far too powerful
if the MSA dont like the idea of using the cadet name, it could be something like "Junior-B"......if the MSA dont want to listen then fine, people will just vote with their feet and leave karting altogether, as they have been recently.
I seem to remember that the LGM series ran the old WTP engine un-restricted and they were little rockets?......this is essentially what I mean.......even the new cadet iame 60cc engine is easily capable of 12hp if you remove the exhaust restrictor, so both 2 and 4 stroke super-cadet or junior-B classes could co-exist
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