[Benn Herr]

As long as we are adding to lists…

B&S Animal Sportsman

George Moreland

World Formula

William Herr

Marc Pape

Shawn Warner

Gino Giannopoulos

Run What Ya Brung

William Herr

Dave Fultz

Randy Quismorio

TAG-E

Gino Giannopoulos or

Randy Quismorio (It depends!)

[Benn Herr]

The easiest thing to change on the kart for us – is the adjustable rear torsion bar. We run a Birel and changing it from straight up (pushy) to angled (not bad) to out (loose, loose, loose!) is a easy deal for us.

The adjustment that makes the biggest difference though is moving the seat forward and back. An inch either way can make a huge difference. Problem is, moving the seat is usually not a quick and easy thing.

[Benn Herr]

Bruce there were 20 Yamaha Hvy entries at Topeka for the KART nationals, I would expect more than that at this race. That being said the only thing that might throw a wheel on the deal is if a guy only wants to run one class and has to pay $600. Most in my group will run as many classes as they can be it TAG, Yamaha/piston port/open- situp/ laydown. As long as time to recover for all of us old farts were in.

As posted before by Chris Larson if you enter 2 or 3 classes at most major events you’re going to spend over $300+ to $400. The only thing I see is we have people that would love to run in our area that can only run one day or class.

In past years there has been every attempt to make it so everybody has two places to run each day. It’s tough to justify sometimes with the limited laydown turnout classes. With the increased intrest in those classes this year it seems like they would really try to find a place for them to run. If you’re up to it and you’re supply of parts doesn’t run out, running four times on the weekend puts the cost at $150 a race. And that’s not bad for this kind of track.

Maybe we should start a laydown list like the Stock Honda guys are doing?

[Benn Herr]

Starting at the back of a big class like that, especially a sit-up CIK bodywork class, the draft is incredible! Being in the back is not a big deal. If you are able to run with the front runners, you can get there in a couple of laps.

[Benn Herr]

If you have a variety of classes and speeds you could use the Pursuit format to make an interesting and competitive race. We used it for all our races for many years.

• Time the practice for the karts involved and then sort them by their fastest lap.
• Take the slowest karts lap time and calculate how many laps they could do in the time you have in your schedule. That is the number of laps in the race.
• Take the lap time of all the other karts and multiply it by the number of laps.
• The amount less than the slowest karts total race time is how long they must wait to start.

All karts start from the pit lane.

You have to decide if you want to worry about people “breaking out” by going too fast, we never did.

It was sometimes necessary to assign a time to a kart that had trouble in practice.

In theory, all karts will finish at the same time if everybody drives every lap like their best. In practice, we did have a fair amount of the field finish on the lead lap for our 20 minute races. It’s fun to watch a race that gets MORE exciting as it goes along instead of less.

[Benn Herr]

Cosmin,

You will need to put a slight bend on the two steering uprights. The right side back a little and the left side forward. It won’t take much – just enough to get the end of the shaft pointed at the uniball.

[Benn Herr]

It’s not the brightness, it’s the lack of contrast!

[Benn Herr]

Awards for a RWYB class are kind of an “all or nothing” deal. Either you beat everybody or you guessed wrong. Certainly a reasonable trophy for the winner (date and track on it if you can) and then maybe a second and third if participation allows it.

[Benn Herr]

It wouldn’t be home without ’em!

[Benn Herr]

It depends on what you mean by RWYB. Traditionaly it done with the following requirements:
1) It has to be a kart.
2) No minimum weight.
3) Minimum age – 16, 18, or 21 – depending on what your insurance says.
4) A maximum engine displacement – 250, 350, 500, or 600. Again insurance dependant.
5) No restriction on body work except for overall length, width, height.
6) Standard safety requirments for brakes, safety wire, etc…

If you want to try to equalize the various typs of karts, good luck. The only one that is roughly equal is that a CIK Sprinter with a 250 single on it at 385 pounds is roughly equal to a 250 ICE kart at legal weight. After that all bets are off.

A class like that is usually just for fun which is good because you’ll never make it “fair”.

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