Uh, your prejudice is showing. A kart with driver on board is taller
than a F440/500, for instance. Driving a kart in a single file line
with escort vehicles on each end of the line from the grid area to the
impound area is in no way unsafe. It's also one heck of a lot
friendlier than asking drivers to push their vehicles that far as was
done last year.
Not asking you to like karts. But respect your fellow members and their
choice of what they think is fun. I believe this ruling does that.
--Byron
The Christianson's wrote:
>
> Byron sez:
> > Kart costs are exceedingly inexpensive in Solo. My tire budget, running
> > the softest gumballs known to man, was about $600 for the entire year
> > last year. In my 99 Miata I've already purchased 4 sets of tires at
> > $600 per set this year. And it's time to buy tires again...
>
> There are certainly cheaper ways for people to get into our sport and have
> a great deal of fun. To start with a shifter kart is not a cheap thing
> (Note I did not use the term car) One good example would be an older solo
> vee. You can probably buy a reliable one for 2,500 that could be
> competitive locally and provide big fun for the driver. They are also
> light enough that you can stretch tires a long ways and hold that cost
> down. (and you can buy a serious pile of tires for the difference in
> purchase price. )
>
> Another thing I don't understand about Karts, is why on earth is the SEB
> going to allow them to be DRIVEN between grid and impound. This is against
> every saftey rule put out on the karts and just plain goes beyond any sort
> of common sense. To most of the tow rigs that are driving around the
> nationals site a cart is similar to bug, both in visibility and in what the
> driver will feel when running over one. I just don't get it. Why put an
> event with 900 competitors at risk for the convenience of 12 people. Put
> all of the carts on one flat trailer in the grid and consider that the
> beginning of impound for them.
>
> Remeber real cars have more than on cylinder and don't mix oil and gas on
> purpose.
>
> Jeff Christianson
> #65 EM
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