[Tim Blaney]

Al, where are starting grids for the finals?

[Tim Blaney]

Sorry Brian, I have to disagree.  When I was working for SKI, I remember sitting at the Las Vegas Karting Center interviewing one of the founders of the Stars of Tomorrow – which later became Stars of Karting.  In extolling the virtues of the ICC he said you could be competive with them out of the box, run them on pump gas and you wouldn’t have to spend $5000 to get one.  Sorry but each and every one of those selling points that people at the time bought hook, line and sinker turned out to be completely untrue at the national level.  If you didn’t have a built ICC – and in the early days Leary, SwedeTech, Italian Motors and SRA were all building good motors for SKUSA/ Stars – you didn’t have a prayer.  Because they were built, pump gas wasn’t an option.  Because the builders needed to make a living you were paying $5,000 almost straight away.

IMO, that makes the selling features a load of crap.  You may interpret it differently.

[Tim Blaney]

Bob, ICC’s make their big push in US sprint kart racing at the national level around 2002 when people grew tired of getting their asses kicked by SwedeTech Hondas.  At the time, the mantra was they could be run box-stock, on pump gas and it would put and end to $5000 engines.  It all turned out to be  a load of crap.  Engine builders quickly found ways to make more power so you still needed built engines, they ran race gas and they ended up being more than $5000.  And in the end SwedeTech dominated ICC just as they did moto.

As I recall Paul Leary had some good Pavesis, Italian Motors were good TMs.  Swetech started out with CRS, then did Pavesis, then Maxter and finally TMs.

 

TB

[Tim Blaney]

I set my DVR according the the guide and everything went fine for me.

[Tim Blaney]

<div class=”d4p-bbp-quote-title”>Rick Smith wrote:</div>
I also noticed another article on that site that mentioned a driver being DQ’d for failing a drug test…when did that start? Haha not saying i’m against it, it’s just news to me that even karting has taken to testing it’s drivers. Anyone heard or seen anything about that rule making it’s way to the US?

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The CIK, through the FIA, is a member of the World Anti-Doping Agency (WADA) and therefore has to follow it’s codes.  As I recall, the CIK only does doping controls at the major races – World Cup, World Chmapionships, etc. I suppose they might do testing at the Rotax World event at NOLA but other than that, there are no races in the US with a high enough profile to warrent the expense on doping control.

[Tim Blaney]

“One Vision” by Queen

Chapyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyy!!!!!!

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