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Re: Do the MSA care about YOU?
Posted by 'JonWright' on 30 Jun 2011 @ 07:54

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John, I understand your point and would always back improved safety in the sport anywhere we can get it but I think your intimation that the MSA are wholly responsible for keeping us from killing ourselves and each other through their use of the rule book, and so any rule that anyone thought might help with that should be instantly imposed is well wide of the mark.
Unless their aim was to kill karting and the freedom of choice to race karts forever by legislating it and pricing it out of existence thay can only ever really balance on the edges of real safety, as they do now.
If you take every possible hazard that you could ever find at a kart track that might cause a serious or even fatal accident, and bring in a rule to make it almost impossible to occur, there are so many things that would have to change that we all would neither recognise or be able to afford karting.
I think the MSA have a difficult task and normally make a decent job of the balance between standards and the freedom of choice for our grass roots sport.
Some notable exceptions of too much (CMR helmets based on age not size / bodyweight?)and too little response (Zip nosecones?) of course, but overall, Ok.
I think you do make a good point however, and I think the MSA could do something very sensible that would reduce the problem immediately, as well as collect data for a possible rule change in future if failure rates do not drop - I would suggest to the MSA that they raised a call to scutineers to random test a number of competitors 50mm rear axles at each meeting - sprocket carrier, disc and grub screws loose, knock axle sideways enough to check for elongated scoring from grub screws, damage from sprocket carrier, start of stress cracking around keyway holes etc. I never saw a failed axle in DD karting that looked perfect apart from the fracture - they were all deeply scored. - Immediate fail for any that are damaged and record stats for MSA.
This will slash the likelihood of axles failing out on track simply because immediately, most (responsible)competitors will check their own before taking the risk to fail scrutineering.

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Do the MSA care about YOU? by 'John' (30 Jun 2011 @ 1:40)

Re: Do the MSA care about YOU? by 'lbsf1' (30 Jun 2011 @ 7:36)

Re: Do the MSA care about YOU? by 'JonWright' << You are here!

Re: Do the MSA care about YOU? by 'richydehav' (30 Jun 2011 @ 10:59)

Re: Do the MSA care about YOU? by 'lard ass bob' (30 Jun 2011 @ 11:03)

Re: Do the MSA care about YOU? by 'PaulMRotax' (30 Jun 2011 @ 11:39)

Re: Do the MSA care about YOU? by 'NikG' (30 Jun 2011 @ 15:43)

Re: Do the MSA care about YOU? by 'davidmc' (30 Jun 2011 @ 16:56)

Re: Do the MSA care about YOU? by 'dave56' (01 Jul 2011 @ 18:48)

Re: Do the MSA care about YOU? by 'John' (01 Jul 2011 @ 19:17)

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