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Robin sorry SimonS, I read with interest your reponses to our new IKR racing series here at Clay, Unfortunately I feel your not really seeing the point to these race meetings, its very easy to pick up and criticise all forms of rules and regulations and nit pick certain elements. As with all kart races from corporate events to MSA (club and national) race meetings there is a need for a sensible approach to all rules, you can not enforce all rules 100% all of the time, e.g kerb riding, 20 drivers/16 kerbs inside and outside of the track with only a few pairs of eyes watching, so a sensible approach will be taken by the officials who deem it safe/not safe or in the spirit of racing. The whole idea of IKR racing here at Clay Pigeon is to have fun, an element of which has been lost to the majority in MSA racing, and of course we mean to keep the whole racing experience safe as possible to all competing along with allowing equipment which is now defunct to MSA classes and racing i.e 100cc engines and various 4 stroke classes and with officials with a fair few years of organising corporate to national MSA meetings and competing to world championship levels I believe there is enough experience to run a race meeting to a safe and good standard. To try and compare contact driving with the use of kerbs on the esses is quite obvious to myself a no brainer, contact driving is dangerous and I'm sorry to say in my opinion kerb riding is not, so as I've said a fair sensible approach is the best way for this situation. If you use your brave message of excluding the first 5,6,10 or all the grid for just running the kerbs as the same penalty for contact driving do you think there would be customer satisfaction and the return of them for further racing. I don't think so. On your point about tyres yes I agree new tyres to somebody who turns up for the last round will maybe have an advantage. We will have to wait and see, personally with my experience in racing it only makes a big performance gain with soft tyres, so with a slightly harder tyre it wont effect you so much, I maybe be wrong. The idea of a championship is that you will have more of a chance of winning it by doing all of the rounds, so one person doing the last round with new tyres, yes they might win the race but not the championship. As the regulations state it is one set of tyres for one competitor for all three races so with your WAAC hat on you will not be allowed on those tyres that your mate has not used. And of course being a new type of racing experience rules may need to be fettled to keep the majority of our customers happy which maybe the reason certain types of racing is failing at the moment. Perhaps Robin sorry SimonS, you should come down and see for yourself at the first meeting and you might be pleasantly surprised and maybe even contemplate racing one of these meetings yourself. Regards Lee
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Clay Pigeon IKR Regs and Registration by 'christkm' (09 May 2014 @ 10:25)
