[Austin Henry]

Thank you. I will pass on your kind words.

Mad with every new venture we are working out some bugs on the site. It will be down for a few Maintenece updates tomorrow.

 

I will ill post here when everything is back up and going.

[Austin Henry]

Jennifer just launched her site.  Ftbphoto.com.

 

Daytona pics are up.

[Austin Henry]

Another great KART event in the books.  Thanks to everyone who helped out and the staff at MPH.

A big thank you to the Baldus Family for supplying dinner Saturday night.

 

Look forward to a great KART National in 3 weeks

[Austin Henry]

That is a slingshot

 

[Austin Henry]

Since your kart is most likely not in a corner with stuff piled on it, send me pictures of your frame and I will see if it looks like a slingshot

[Austin Henry]

There where karts out there being sold by Chicago Karting, they were called “slingshot” endures, they were wider than 37.25 and had the brakes in the middle, we still have one in our shop

 

[Austin Henry]

Come on over and run with KART we are happy to have any of you

[Austin Henry]

Ric,

The way I have seen the effect of castor/camber is this.  Camber’s biggest effect is the way the kart turns in and camber has a larger effect on how the kart rotates.  For example at heartland park I was running 8 degrees of castor and +1/4 on camber, the kart would neither turn in or rotate, so I went to 12 degrees castor and -1/2 on camber, the kart was then almost un-drivable is was so loose, especially when the weight was rotating.  I then changed the castor back to 10 degrees, this greatly helped the weight transfer and “unloading” of the kart from center off.  It really takes a lot of trial and error to get your kart where it is fast and you feel comfortable, and this set up should change based on what type of track, and track conditions your are faced with.

[Austin Henry]

Does anyone have the website info for the guy who was taking pictures and video at Hallett this weekend?

[Austin Henry]

So who won?

 

[Austin Henry]

Chris,

You sure to know a lot about KART for never racing with us.  Good thing for us is half of our races are on natural road courses, so track rental fees do not affect us as much.  We have a great group of racers and do not require 300+ entries per weekend to pay our bills.  KART was formed to get away from IKF, maybe IKF should pay more attention to what we are doing.  We take care of our racers, create class structures that support what is in the area, all of are classes are sponsored (series and national classes).  All of karting is a slump right now and it comes down to cost in my opinion.  When I raced SKUSA there were people spending 120K+ to race shifter karts, heck for that money we can be racing cars.

Those of you who dream of a national road racing series, keep dreaming!  If you cant afford to race in your own back yard, how can you race halfway across the country!  Plus the politics would never allow it (we all know this).

In my opinion KART works because we have the best members of any organization, we all work together to promote and put on races.  We are all involved in rule changes (that dont happen every year), we have relitivly low cost, high quality venues to race at, and we base our class structtre around our racers, we dont need 70 classes in the “hope” that people will come race “once ina  while”.  With that being said, we have had groups ask us to add classes such as Jr sportsman 1 and B-stock, we gladley did but the support from these groups was great, 10-20+ racers show up and we have a great class with great racing.  Also when KART racers travel to other series they are usally up front, so its even greater we have top notch racers as well.

[Austin Henry]

I find it amusing when people make these posts and leave out KART. Road Racing in KART it doing quite well.

[Austin Henry]

Are there results posted for this race?

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