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| April 03, 2008 News |
| IAME Releases Statement Regarding Current Status of TaG Engines |
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The following is an official statement from IAME, the manufacturer of the Parilla Leopard engine regarding the current state of the TaG industry in the United States
IAME has been aware of the Rules Structure for the new TAG Class issued by Stars of Karting, on March 5th, and that's why the company decided to write this press release. IAME as manufacturer of the PARILLA LEOPARD engine, wish to express its concern on the present situation and on the future of the TAG Classes in the U.S.
More than 10 years ago, we have conceived the first engines for the TaG Classes, our goals was to design, and manufacture engines which had to be long lasting, low cost, reliable and with a performance level to be adequate to the classes where these engines had to be raced.
The Parilla Leopard engine is fully representative of this philosophy.
We have never changed the production specifications of this engine because this would have been against the spirit with which the engine had been designed and the spirit of the TAG category and, when deemed necessary, we have only introduced modifications aimed to increase the engine reliability and life.
It seems IAME missed its goal and the engine long life and low maintenance costs seem to be no longer important for the U.S. market. It seems that other manufacturers are allowed to carry on modifications on TaG engines, changing the original technical specifications, without any approval, with the only aim of increasing their performance. The changes anticipated by STARS of KARTING, TaG USA and other US Karting Federations prove our statements.
We really appreciate the efforts of the Federation, trying to issue new technical rules with the aim of equalizing the performance differences among all of the engines accepted in its class. Unfortunately, we are not completely sure that the present changes and restrictions introduced by the Federations are reliable and really re-establish the performance of the original homologated engine. IAME believes these changes can be easily circumvented and the very open tolerances of the other engines allow these performance changes to be negated almost immediately.
It is with disappointment that IAME has to take note of what is happening in the TaG Classes. By the federations accepting all of this, it has forced the drivers to continuously replace their engine in order to increase the performance. Expenses have risen and reliability has fallen. Of course IAME could take part in this game of increasing performance, but is this what we all really want?
IAME will support only those federations which will accept these philosophies within their race series. This will allow for IAME’s basic concept of long lasting, low cost, reliable and with an acceptable performance level to continue to grow. Racers who are after these same philosophies in their competition should seek out these classes within their federation. |
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