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Re: Could karting ever return to a maximum 5 class
Posted by 'SimonS' on 21 Mar 2010 @ 21:57

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I'm not endorsing anything in particular.

What I am saying is that trying to force people to behave according to someone elses's ideal is a completely nugatory idea. If one tries to force people into races they don't want, they will just go elsewhere.

So let us consider what class has more drivers than all the MSA classes put together? It's a class whose performance is possibly on a par with the top machines of the 1960's, and it's a class many of us treat with disdain. Quite simply, the Prokart.

Indeed, if we add in the prokart to our claculations, we find that there is far more karting activity, with far more karters than there were in the 60's. Sure, many of them are corporate entertainments, many are indoor tracks and most of it is outside the MSA banner.

So what we might conclude is that the determination to produce ever faster karts and classes,'real racing machines', means that we are bound down the road of isolation.

The casual driver who used to turn to 'competition karting' to satisfy that need for speed no longer does so because he can do corporate karting to take the edge off in a cheap, fun way, while the "real thing"; as we see it; is becoming ever more expensive and ever more restricted.

For example, just to make the step from corporate kart to MSA driver is going to cost around Ł250 to get a licence and Ł1000 just to get 20 minutes on the track (renting a race kart for the day and other expenses:entry fee, race suit, helmet etc) as well as a three week delay to think about it. Compare that with Ł60 for an hour's driving in a three hour event, turn up , sign on and climb into the rental gear and get out on the track.

Yes, I have interested many people in coming along to a track. Tell them that hiring the kart is going to cost Ł300 and they might get an hour on the track.....and suddenly they are a lot less interested. Somehow we have to get people to the track, out on the track in a 'race kart' and into the sport reasonably cheaply.

Pretending that our drop-off in numbers can be addressed by making our bit of the sport more expensive, more exclusive and even more limited doesn't look like being the answer.

Message Thread:

Could karting ever return to a maximum 5 classes? by 'willyblackshaw' (20 Mar 2010 @ 18:23)

Re: Could karting ever return to a maximum 5 class by 'Traxtar' (20 Mar 2010 @ 18:27)

100% agree with you Willy by 'DavyBoy' (20 Mar 2010 @ 19:33)

Re: 100% agree with you Willy by 'QuickOldTimer' (20 Mar 2010 @ 20:09)

Re: Could karting ever return to a maximum 5 class by 'SimonS' (20 Mar 2010 @ 22:26)

Re: Could karting ever return to a maximum 5 class by 'alanrr' (20 Mar 2010 @ 23:39)

Re: Could karting ever return to a maximum 5 class by 'KJM' (21 Mar 2010 @ 9:16)

Re: Could karting ever return to a maximum 5 class by 'DavyBoy' (21 Mar 2010 @ 11:13)

Re: Could karting ever return to a maximum 5 class by 'SimonS' << You are here!

May i suggest 7 classes? by 'TheMantis' (21 Mar 2010 @ 13:09)

so when is...... by 'Inter61' (21 Mar 2010 @ 20:08)

Re: so when is...... by 'Marc' (22 Mar 2010 @ 10:20)

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