Verdict

Joe Palmer · Posted: Fri Jan 04, 2013 9:50 am Post subject:

Is it possible the absence of Sam Beasley & Kyle Kirkwood accounted for the slightly less turnout? Between the two of them, the WKA lost like 17 entries! Shocked

patrick slattery · Posted: Fri Jan 04, 2013 10:46 am Post subject: Re: pipe

jim rogero · Posted: Fri Jan 04, 2013 11:00 am Post subject:

If someone tells you that the KPP new rule with up to 2 inches shorter flex and the new Yamaha pipe did not change the engine set up, It would be like nascar changing the restrictor plate size just before the race and not think that some may gain an advantage. With that said, the teams in nascar most likely know that such a change may happen and have already tested it and know what to change to go along with the smaller plate. Like anything else,(if the classes survive), they will find more performance in the future. The timing of making the KPP a pro Money race and changing the flex rule at the same time, may turn out to be not such a good idea.

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patrick slattery · Posted: Fri Jan 04, 2013 12:30 pm Post subject:

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Chris Beasley · Joined: 02 Jan 2013 Posts: 3

Seems there have been a lot of questions on turnouts at Daytona in this thread, and others, so I thought I would jump in.

I'm one of the co-creators of KartRank.com, whose primary focus is driver rankings, but once you have all the data necessary to do that you can do a lot of other things. We don't have an agenda, and are doing this as a service to the karting community by trying to make sense of a complicated industry through the use of data. No personal biases here.

We just finished looking at year over year counts in different classes at Daytona: Daytona comparison 2011/2012. We tried to look at it from a number of different viewpoints such as average kart count, total entries, and number of unique drivers making the trip (i.e. did fewer people show up, but run more classes?).

I don't want to hijack the thread with discussion of the website, but please know that we'd welcome any feedback either directly or in a separate thread.

jim rogero · Posted: Fri Jan 04, 2013 10:04 pm Post subject:

Thanks Chris, good info.

Andrew M. Coulter · Joined: 11 Jul 2002 Posts: 147 Location: Quincy IL

Hey Chris, I just want to thank you for proving that my stats professor did make sense after all. If only he taught in karting terms Laughing

JIM SILVERHEELS · Posted: Sun Jan 06, 2013 5:24 pm Post subject: are they

Are they really re cutting heads for the new pipes over the rlv's?
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patrick slattery · Posted: Tue Jan 08, 2013 2:29 pm Post subject: Re: are they

JIM SILVERHEELS · Posted: Tue Jan 08, 2013 4:06 pm Post subject: Pat

Pat, what I was asking was, are the engine builders really recutting the Yammy heads from a different configuration for the new pipes than the way they were cut from say the L-2 pipes from RLV.
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patrick slattery · Posted: Tue Jan 08, 2013 5:36 pm Post subject:

I know most of my guys just ran there supercan motors and were very competitive