[Ted Hamilton]

On a single-speed vehicle, it’s all about compromise — how long can you hold the brake and throttle at the same time without burning your clutch up? Not familiar with the solo rules — if you can add an axle clutch too, that will allow you to set higher stall speed and get better starts. If it must remain RMax legal, it’s all about timing and dancing on the pedals…

[Rob Kozakowski]

The Rotax is just slow from a dead stop.  You can make very marginal improvements, but it’ll still be slow.

[Joe Ricard]

Well I got to do my post race maintenance and looked at the pipe and plug.  Fouled the plug and pipe was black.   weather was changing quickly and I dig not keep up with it.   Grid is far away from Paddock.  You can’t leave grid and I didn’t have a Ninja to get me a leaner jet.    So being pig rich was part of the slow launch.   Weather needed a 165 when I gridded up,  when I got back to the truck my station said 160 boarder 158

Autocross is a just for fun thing for me these days.  Used to be so hooked on it with my shifter motor.

[Nick Esguerra]

Happened to catch this, obviously if you only intend to use it for autocross it may work.  Very experimental, but cool nonetheless.

 

[Ray Chiappe]

I have seen axle clutches used at Road Races. Don’t know if one will work with sprint gearing? I think a Rotax with a slippy clutch with say a stall around 7,000 rpm would be a rocket!

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