[William Kinnear]

It’s only a matter of time before we need to use KZ  engines for a shifter again, how long are Honda going to support CR 125 3 – 5 years so someone is going to have start KZ shifter class to keep a national shifter class.

So why do they not start a KZ class and see where it goes also allow people have time to make the shift from stock Honda to KZ we have done them both and costs are very close in running these engines it costs more for travel, entries and tires than the engine maintainence at national level.

 

[William Kinnear]

Roger I could not agree more, we need someone or a WKA or SKUSA  body to set up some structure in karting from grass roots to national level this will help grow the business and sport.  We then would have engines and karts that would retain some value and could be used at any level the kart shops would be in a better shape and not scrabbling for the next great engine package.

Promoters would get good fields as we no longer have these small fields that make promoters have to run 10 classes to get any number of people to turn up at an event.

[William Kinnear]

One thing that really does not make sense is kart shops sell you chassis and engines, but how many of them offer you a series to race in or track to race at.

Without the track and series how are they going to get repeat business you end up with equipment with no really place to race or practice.

Kartshops and importers need to be able to give there customers a place to race and practice unlike Motocross where you can basically go anywhere and run your bikes karts need race tracks and without a tie up with kart shops and tracks it limits the ability  of karters somewhere to practice and race.

This in turn limits kart sales and growth of the sport.

 

 

 

[William Kinnear]

What ever the engine package is, we need  stable engine rules or we will never have big national fields or grow the sport to support all the engine options out there. The other option is to have these TAG engines fit an engine spec like KF instead of everyone coming up with the next great cheap and reliable engine that cannot fit into a Tag race due to such vast performance differences.

[William Kinnear]

No but its at Leading Edge where it was built and still sitting there.
You could phone Greg Bell and he will send pics

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